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FBI gives Clinton interview documents to Congress, report says – as it happened

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The FBI material is believed to include notes that agents took during interviews over Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Photograph: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images

Summary

We’re going to wrap up our live blog politics coverage for the day. Click here for today’s Campaign Minute summary – and see you back here tomorrow!

Trump: I don't want to pivot

Donald Trump has told a local Wisconsin interviewer that he does not plan on unveiling a general election persona after all:

Tim Kaine, pint, and incredible rainbow-unicorn-flying-past-the-moon T-shirt:

FBI turns over Clinton interview materials to Congress – report

The FBI has turned over material to a Republican-led congressional committee investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of private emails while secretary of state, the Washington Post reports.

The material is believed to include notes on an interview FBI agents conducted with Clinton about her email hygiene. FBI director James Comey told Congress earlier this summer that the interview with Clinton was not recorded.

The FBI has handed over a “number of documents” to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a spokesman told the Post Tuesday afternoon.

The Post quotes a committee spokesman:

The FBI has turned over a ‘number of documents’ related to their investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email server. Committee staff is currently reviewing the information that is classified SECRET. There are no further details at this time.

State polls look good for Clinton

This morning the Washington Post delivered a poll showing Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump among likely voters in Virginia by 8 points, a margin in line with polling averages.

Meanwhile, Monmouth has released a poll of Florida likely voters showing Clinton up by 9 points:

Polling averages have Clinton ahead by only three or four points in Florida.

A Public Policy Polling survey of Texas, meanwhile, finds Trump ahead by only six points, in a four-way race. Mitt Romney won the state, which has not voted Democratic in a presidential election in 40 years, by 16 points in 2012:

There’s a sliver of good news out there in polling land for Trump today, via Mobile, Alabama, local WKRG-5:

Trump still has the Skynyrd vote.

Updated

Trump to attend Iowa 'Roast and Ride'

Donald Trump will appear at an event hosted by Iowa senator Joni Ernst later this month, in an effort to swing a state where polling averages show a tight two-point race.

“The Roast and Ride is a great event to honor our veterans, celebrate the best of Iowa, and hear from our Republican candidates and leaders about a better way forward for our nation,” Ernst said in a statement. “Iowa will play an important role in 2016, and I look forward to rallying together with fellow Iowans to hear from this exciting lineup of speakers about ways to ensure America is always a strong, stabilizing force around the globe.”

Hogs.
Hogs. Photograph: handout

(h/t: @bencjacobs)

The Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui is in the room with Clinton in Philadelphia:

Hillary Clinton is addressing supporters in Philadelphia. Here’s a live video stream:

Trump camp denies Ailes role

Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks has told The Hollywood Reporter that the Times and NY Magazine reports that Roger Ailes is advising Donald Trump are wrong.

THR quotes Hicks as saying of Ailes:

He is not advising Mr. Trump or helping with debate prep. They are longtime friends, but he has no formal or informal role in the campaign.

Have you checked in lately on our election countdown fact generator? 84 days and counting!

Ailes helping with Trump debate prep – report

Donald Trump has said he “would be the best for women” if elected president. On the other hand, the New York Times reports, his campaign has just recruited Roger Ailes, the media maestro who resigned from Fox News last month following allegations that he sexually harassed numerous subordinates.

For starters, Ailes is going to help Trump prepare for the debates, the Times reports:

Mr. Ailes is aiding Mr. Trump’s team as it turns its attention to the first debate with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, on Sept. 26 on Long Island, according to three people briefed on the move, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

Ailes, a former top aide to Richard Nixon, has helped past presidents prepare for debates including Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush.

Updated

Josh Holmes is the former chief of staff and campaign manager of the current (Republican) senate majority leader.

In the tweet below he refers to the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is “running for president” in collusion with the Clintons/Democrats as opposed to against the Clintons/Democrats.

The theory imagines a deal between Trump and the Clintons in which the plan was for him to win the Republican nomination and then throw the general election to Hillary Clinton. (Note: The theory rests very shakily on the notion that the conspirators would have thought that Donald Trump had a chance at winning the Republican presidential nomination.)

Updated

The Morning Joe team at MSNBC has made a video illustrating how several foreign policy positions that Donald Trump bragged about yesterday – on Iraq, Libya and Egypt – did not used to be his policy positions:

How Trump's campaign chief got a strongman elected president of Ukraine

The Guardian’s Luke Harding met Paul Manafort in 2007, a couple years after the current Trump campaign chairman had set up “an anonymous office at number 4 Sophia Street in Kiev” to restore the party of future Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich to power.

“Close up, Manafort looked every inch the classic Washington lobbyist,” Luke writes:

He wore an expensive suit and tie and exuded seriousness. He also bore a faint physical resemblance to his client – even their hairstyles were similar. (Manafort, I was told later, had instructed Yanukovich to blow-dry his hair. Manafort’s camp denies this.)

The American had an interesting story to tell – one which may sound familiar to observers of Donald Trump’s campaign – of how his candidate had been almost wilfully misunderstood by the west, especially by its media.

The new Yanukovich was nothing like the old one, Manafort suggested. He had absorbed the lessons of his previous defeats, was studying English – and was even playing tennis with the US ambassador.

“People are still looking at the political system in this country through the prism of 2004,” Manafort told me. “That’s not at all the situation here.”

Paul Manafort in an elevator at the Republican national convention in Cleveland last month.
Paul Manafort in an elevator at the Republican national convention in Cleveland last month. Photograph: Brian Snyder / Reuters/Reuters

But after Yanukovich claimed the presidency in 2010, he “moved quickly to consolidate all instruments of power,” Luke writes:

Those who worked with Manafort say that he cannot be blamed for the Ukrainian disaster. Oleg Voloshin, a former aide to Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Yanukovich’s 2010-12 foreign minister who now works as a political consultant, says Manafort urged Yanukovich to press ahead with the EU integration agenda.

Voloshin still has ties with the ex-Party of Regions, which Manafort rebranded in 2014 as the Opposition Bloc. (Manafort’s consultancy in Ukraine continued until at least parliamentary elections in 2014.)

He suggests that Yanukovich “listened to what Paul said” between 2007-2010, but then, once he became president, stopped listening – with catastrophic results. [...]

But Manafort’s critics in Kiev are scathing. “He’s an evil genius,” Alex Kovzhun, who spent a decade working for [former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia] Tymoshenko, beginning in 2001, said. “He doesn’t work statesmen. He works dictators and all-round bastards. He sells the unsellable product. If you have a dead horse and you need to sell it, you call him.”

“He works bad guys. They pay more, of course.”

Read the full piece here:

Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Donald Trump is scheduled to travel today to restive Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the police killing of Sylville Smith on Saturday has sparked protests. Trump will participate in a town hall hosted this evening by Fox News. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland will be on the scene.

Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Pennsylvania today. The Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui will be with the candidate, including at a voter registration event in Philadelphia this afternoon.

Blame it on Kaine?

A new Washington Post poll of Virginia voters holds good news for Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine, the commonwealth’s former governor and junior US senator. Clinton is up 14 points on Trump among registered voters in the poll, and up eight points among likely voters. The second margin is on the button with polling averages. Clinton leads Trump by seven points in a four-person race, according to the poll. Virginia is theoretically a swing state.

Nevermind Virginia. Last night Kaine had moved on to North Carolina:

Particularly worrisome for Trump in the poll might be his mere 24-point lead among non-college-educated white voters:

Clinton names transition team

Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday named a leadership line-up for her transition team, which will prepare the way should she win the November election, Reuters reports:

Ken Salazar, previously both a secretary of the interior and a Colorado senator, will chair the team ... the team will include four co-chairs, according to a statement: former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, president of the Center for American Progress Neera Tanden, and Maggie Williams, director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

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