Politics & Government
Watch Replays: Hillary Clinton Rallies in Dade City, Sanford and Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has upped her Florida rally schedule with three stops in Florida on Tuesday.

DADE CITY, FL β Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has three Florida rallies on her schedule Tuesday, as the beleaguered former secretary of state strives to regain the lead in Sunshine State polls she enjoyed only a few short days ago.
Clintonβs Tuesday rally schedule will begin with an appearance in Dade City followed by a stop in Sanford Tuesday afternoon. Sheβll wrap up her day in Fort Lauderdale with an early-voting event around 7 p.m. Former President Bill Clinton is also campaigning on behalf of his wife on Tuesday. His schedule includes a stop in St. Petersburg.
The robust campaign schedule comes as Hillary Clintonβs projected lead in Florida has evaporated. Sheβs also taken a big hit in national polls following the announcement on Friday by FBI Director James Comey that his agency had discovered new emails related to their investigation of Clintonβs private email server.
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Comeyβs vague letter to Congressional leaders has been the subject of heavy criticism since news of its existence hit. The bombshell was dropped just 11 days before the Nov. 8 presidential election.
The FBI has known about the new batch of emails related to its investigation of Clinton for weeks, CNN is reporting. The emails in question don't belong to Clinton herself but to one of her closest aides, Huma Abedin. Abedin's emails were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Congressman from New York and her estranged husband.
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That information, though, was not made clear in Comey's letter to Congress announcing the new developments, which didn't say who the emails belonged to, how the FBI found them or in what "unrelated case" the emails were found.
Clintonβs polling numbers have gone into a downward spiral since Comeyβs announcement. On Friday, she led Republican challenger Donald Trump by 4.6 percentage points in national polls, according to RealClear Politics. By Monday, that lead had dwindled to 2.5 percentage points. As of Tuesday morning, her lead was just 2.2 points.
Clintonβs once healthy lead in the Sunshine State has also disappeared. As of Tuesday, Trump led the statewide polling average by 1 percentage point.
Trump has also been bombarded with scandals over the past few weeks. His numbers in national polls dropped sharply following the three presidential debates and the release of a video that showed him making lewd comments about women. Although the video was about a decade old, the New York businessman has also been fending off allegations from women who say he touched them inappropriately.
Clinton Dade City rally is expected to begin around 1:30 p.m. Watch the live stream below when it begins.
The Clinton rally in Sanford is scheduled with a start time around 4:30 p.m. Watch the rally live when it begins below:
Clintonβs Fort Lauderdale rally is scheduled to start around 7 p.m. Watch the live stream below when it begins:
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