Trump says Isis will take over the US if Clinton wins – campaign live

Even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted his country was not involved in an effort to influence the US presidential election, Reuters reports:

Last week, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of launching a hacking campaign to “interfere with the U.S. election process.”

Clinton’s campaign, which has charged the Kremlin is trying to help Republican Donald Trump win the White House on Nov. 8, took its allegations a step further on Tuesday when John Podesta, chairman of the Democratic nominee’s campaign, accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia.

In Moscow, Putin said nothing in the hacking scandal is in Russia’s interests and accused all sides in the U.S. presidential campaign of misusing rhetoric about Russia for their own purposes.

“They started this hysteria, saying this (hacking) is in Russia’s interests, but this has nothing to do with Russia’s interests,” Putin told a business forum.

Putin said his government would work with whoever won the U.S. election, “if, of course, the new U.S. leader wishes to work with our country.”

WikiLeaks, the organization started by Julian Assange that publishes leaked information on the internet, this week released thousands of emails from Podesta’s email account and has not said how it obtained them. Last week, it posted excerpts from Clinton’s private speeches to banking and financial firms.

The Clinton campaign has not confirmed the authenticity of the messages.

Tasha Dixon says that during the 2001 Miss USA pageant, she and other contestants were forced to meet with Donald Trump – dressed or not. ‘Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis,’ Dixon recalled. She says Trump ‘strolled in’ while girls were topless and naked, but there was no one to complain to, as he owned the pageant.

Marquette University is out with a new poll of Wisconsin voters showing a dramatic decline in support for Trump after his comments about touching women’s genitals without consent came to light.

The poll shows a 24-point swing over four days among female likely voters:

But the effect was observable across all groups, the Washington Post points out:

The poll showed a surprisingly tight senate race in the state, with incumbent Republican Ron Johnson, whose goose had been looking cooked, just two points behind challenger and former senator Russ Feingold:

The poll showed Clinton with a seven-point lead, 44-37, in a four-way race.

Trump now says that Isis wants Clinton to win because if she does, “they’ll not only take over that part of the world, they’ll take over this country, they’ll take over this part of the world.”

Isis will take over the United States if Hillary Clinton is elected president. – Donald Trump