Trump, Clinton Sling Mud at Each Other

With new polls indicating they are neck and neck in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are escalating their attacks on each other in a preview of what is likely to be one of the ugliest general-election campaigns in U.S. history.

Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, says Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is not qualified to be president. She questions his claims of overwhelming success in business and argues that he has no solutions to the nation's major problems. "I do not want Americans and, you know, good-thinking Republicans, as well as Democrats and independents, to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy," Clinton told NBC Sunday, referring to Trump's bid for the White House.
"I know he has a plurality of Republicans who have voted for him. But I think in the course of this campaign, we are going to demonstrate he has no ideas. There's no evidence he has any ideas about making America great, as he advertises. He seems to be particularly focused on making himself appear great. And as we go through this campaign, we're going to be demonstrating the hollowness of his rhetoric."
Clinton, the former secretary of state and former U.S. senator from New York, said Trump is "pretend successful" in business and called on him to release his tax returns to clarify his wealth.
For his part, Trump, a billionaire real-estate developer, tweeted during the weekend, "Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president because her judgment has been proven to be so bad! Would be four more years of stupidity."
Trump also tweeted: "How can Crooked Hillary say she cares about women when she is silent on radical Islam, which horribly oppresses women?"
The latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, released Sunday, indicates that Clinton leads Trump nationally among registered voters by three percentage points, 46 percent to 43 percent, a statistical tie. Clinton had led Trump by 11 points, 50 to 39, in April, according to the NBC-Journal survey.
The latest ABC News-Washington Post poll also showed that the general-election race between Clinton and Trump is very close, with 46 percent for Trump and 44 for Clinton. Clinton had led by nine percentage points in March, according to the ABC-Post survey.
Several polls, including both of these surveys, show that voters have highly unfavorable views of both candidates.
Clinton is close to wrapping up the Democratic nomination and Trump is on the verge of winning the Republican nomination.
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