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Offices of Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in New York were evacuated on Friday evening after receiving a letter with a "white powdered substance," according to officials.
The entire 11th floor was cleared around 5:30 p.m. ET after the unknown substance arrived in a business size envelope to Clinton's Brooklyn headquarters, the NYPD's Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information (DCPI) told NBC News.
The powder was being tested, and preliminary results showed that the substance was not harmful and there have been no reports of illnesses due to exposure, according to the DCPI.
EXETER, New Hampshire — Mike Pence rolled out of New Hampshire on Friday night with a five-stop day in the books. It was the Indiana governor's busiest day on the campaign trail — one that, notably, hasn't been overly strenuous when it comes to speech giving and retail politicking.
He wrapped up his day in the Granite State with a campaign rally that comfortably fit the old Exeter Town Hall, a famed site where Abraham Lincoln once addressed the town.
"That man is ready. This team is ready. This movement is ready," Pence roared to close his speech. "If you go make sure New Hampshire is ready, we will make Donald Trump the 45th President of the United States of America, and we will make America great again."
The full-throated backing of his running mate included the insistence that Trump "beat Hillary Clinton hands down" at the debate in Las Vegas Wednesday, and noted that the campaign has "unrelenting momentum," as Pence told the crowd about his stops in Albuquerque and Reno on Thursday.
"Yeah, it's a big country," Pence chuckled. He told them that he can "sense this enthusiasm" and suggested that Trump is "still standing stronger than ever before."
Former KKK leader David Duke, 66, has earned enough support in the Louisiana Senate race to take the debate stage, according to The Acadiana Advocate. The debate will be held Nov. 2 at Dillard University, a historically black college.
Duke announced in late July that he was running for the open Senate seat. He endorsed Donald Trump, who Duke said had bolstered the white nationalist movement and inspired him to run. The Republican presidential candidate has disavowed Duke multiple times.
Duke said it was "amazing" that he met the 5 percent minimum requirement to attend the debate, but worried about visiting a black university.
"Dillard is pretty supportive of Black Lives Matter, and I've been pretty critical of them," he said, according to the Advocate.
That's so Miley.
The Voice judge, singer, songwriter and philanthropist Miley Cyrus will be joining Hillary Clinton's VP Pick, Tim Kaine, to campaign for Clinton at George Mason University, V.A. on Saturday, October 22.
"Comin to VA for HC!!!" Cyrus said in a Tweet that also included the hashtag #imwithher and a photo of Clinton's face in the middle of an American dollar.
As a passionate advocate for LGBTQ rights and a pansexual, Cyrus intends to literally knock on doors in the college to speak to students about the "high-stake gamble" of this election particularly for millennial voters.
Cyrus plans to urge voters to visit iwillvote.com and ensure they have adequate information on how to vote for on Election Day.
Vice President Joe Biden didn't hold back during a rally for Hillary Clinton today, taking a jab at Donald Trump for theleaked Access Hollywood tape.
Biden said it was "a disgusting assertion for Trump to make" in the lewd tape that he could "do things" to women that other people couldn't just because he is "a billionaire." The vice president has called it "a textbook version of sexual assault" and critiqued Trump's abuse of power publicly.
"The press always asks me, don't I wish I were debating him? No, I wish we were in high school, and I could take him behind the gym. That's what I wish," Biden said at Wilkes University in P.A.
Marco Rubio told NBC News that Donald Trump is doing "better than people think" in Florida while acknowledging his "unusual" candidacy.
"I think there is an acknowledgement that Donald Trump's nomination is unusual and not what most people expected," Rubio told NBC News' Hallie Jackson on Friday. "He did win 14 million votes and is the nominee of our party."
The Florida senator said he often disagrees with the GOP nominee and, if elected, would likely face opposition from Congressional Republicans on a number of key issues.
"I imagine on certain issues that if he is elected you are going to have congressional Republicans who are going to be pushing the country in a different direction than the Republican president," Rubio said.
And despite polling that shows Trump trailing HIllary Clinton, Rubio predicted Election Day will be closer than many people expect.
"He is doing better in Florida than people think he is. But we will see," Rubio said. "I don't think he can win if he doesn't win Florida."
A Quinnipiac poll released Monday showed Clinton with a four-point lead in the Sunshine State.
Freedom Partners Action Fund is launching a new television advertisement in the Nevada Senate race to start running the final two weeks before Election Day.
The $750,000 ad buy is the latest for the Charles and David Koch-backed group that said it would likely dispense with pricey television advertisements in the final five weeks of the election.
But Republican candidate, Rep. Joe Heck, is slightly behind in the polls, according to an average by Real Clear Politics, and the group believes that a final television push, combined with efforts by other Koch-backed groups on the ground there, is needed in the final days.
The heart-wrenching ad suggests Democratic candidate Catherine Cortez Masto, then state's attorney general, is heartless and didn't address the pleas of a daughter who's mother was in the state's guardian program.
"A vulnerable elderly womanwas neglected andlosthundreds of thousands of dollars, and Catherine Cortez Masto ignored thefamily's pleas for help," said Freedom Partners spokesman Bill Riggs. "Cortez Masto has a history of looking the other way while seniors were exploited under Nevada's guardianship program, and Nevadans deserve better."
The Associated Builders and Contractors announced a digital advertising buy worth up to $3 million in critical Senate races.
The association that works to protect construction and building trades is one of a growing list of conservative leaning groups that usually endorse in the presidential race but are opting to spend their political dollars down-ballot.
In one of the two ads targeted Democratic candidate Sen. Evan Bayh in the Hoosier State, one "diagnoses" him with "Affluenza."
"You just don't get that kind of personality change with an uninfected person," says a person playing a doctor in the ad. "We ask that if you see him, just be polite and say, 'Senator Bayh, those were bad votes and they hurt Hoosiers.' Just maybe don't shake hands without medical grade gloves."
The ads are targeted for the Senate races in Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida and Indiana.
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet Black Lives Matter activists Brittany Packnett and DeRay McKesson in Cleveland today ahead of her rally, a Clinton aide told NBC News.
"I'm looking forward to the conversation with Hillary Clinton today, following up on the previous in-person meeting," McKesson said in a tweet.
Clinton met with Packnett and McKesson a year ago to address their concerns about the racial and criminal justice issues that have pervaded the U.S., including the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. However, at that time, Packnett, along with Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, chose to not endorse Clinton because they were worried about the 1994 crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law.
Packnett officially endorsed Clinton Friday, citing Clinton's "path to progress."
Legendary golfer Tiger Woods wouldn't say whether he has played golf with Donald Trump in an interview Thursday with "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert.
Colbert asked Woods to review the golf game of various presidents, before finally asking if he has played with the current GOP nominee.
"You said president," Woods said, smiling.
During a rapid-fire part of the interview, Woods described George H.W. Bush's golf game as "fast" and called President Obama "straight" and extremely competitive." He said he had never played with George W. Bush.
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