Daily Times

WASHINGTON: As it now seems to be a one-sided contest, the Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton has outsmarted billionaire Republican rival Donald Trump in fund-raising.

According to the latest figures, submitted to Federal Election Commission by the two candidates, Ms Clinton has amassed more than $62 million, four times more than what Mr Trump managed to raise so far.

One set back after another also forced some of Republican Party’s biggest donors to divert their funds to Senate and House races.

At the moment it looks like the party is over. While Ms Clinton is pondering what to say in her victory speech on the night of November 8, the Republican candidate is now mulling over the strategy to cast doubts on the entire electoral process.

Majority Americans in Washington DC agree that Mr Trump is going to lose big time. They are equally wary of Ms Clinton given her past track record. They consider her a representative of the elite of the country, who would protect their interest instead of healing America as she promised repeatedly.

“The only reason I would vote for Trump is that he is not a politician. He is a businessman and whatever he said appeared to be true. So why not we should test him for once, at least,” commented Matt, a manager at a mobile outlet.

In a frank conversation with this scribe, a couple of officials who requested not to be named, said unless something very bad happens to Ms Clinton she would surely secure the victory. “Mr Trump appears to have lost the support of his biggest donor: himself,” wrote the New York Times. Mr Trump contributed no cash and just $31,000 worth of rent and staff salaries to his campaign in the first three weeks of October, a fraction of the $2-million-a-month self-funding pace he had set since winning the Republican presidential nomination.

As of mid-October, according to the disclosure, Ms Clinton was raising $2.8 million each day and had $62 million in her campaign account.

The most influential newspaper of the United States predicts that Hilary Clinton has 91 percent chance of winning the presidency.

The campaign managers of Ms Clinton are meticulously fine tuning the small details in the run-up to the election. They have even informed the media where would Ms Clinton deliver her ‘victory’ speech. Whereas, the campaign managers of Mr Trump are struggling from one crisis after another.

While both Republican and Democratic candidates are trying to woo voters in the state of Iowa, President Barak Obama would dash to Florida to contribute to Ms Clinton’s campaign.

FBI Probe Against Clinton: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on Friday that the agency would investigate whether additional classified material was contained in emails sent using Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state.

In a letter to congressional leaders, the FBI director James Comey informed congressional leaders, the agency had, in connection with an “unrelated case,” recently “learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the Clinton investigation.”

The announcement appears to restart the FBI’s probe of Clinton’s server, less than two weeks before the presidential election, an explosive development that could shape the campaign’s final days, Washington Post commented.

The director revealed that he had been briefed on the new material on Thursday. “I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation,” he wrote.

The FBI had closed its investigation in July with no charges, though Comey had concluded there had been classified content exchanged on the server and that Clinton had been “extremely careless.”