Answer from Hillary Clinton, Democratic nominee for president:

That’s a great question. From proposing a comprehensive immigration reform bill with a path to citizenship to introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, I want to hit the ground running in my first 100 days—because there’s so much we have to do.

A critical part of that work is building an economy that everyone can be proud of and be a part of. We’ve come a long way since the Great Recession, but we’ve still got a lot of work to do to ensure everyone who wants to work can find a good-paying job—one that pays enough to support a family. That’s why I’ve pledged that in my first 100 days as president, we’ll make the boldest investment in good-paying jobs since World War II.

Hillary Clinton's political career has featured many ups and downs. But the salad days of her popularity were when she was secretary of state. As many as two-thirds of Americans liked her at the time.

Since then, her trajectory has been in one direction: down. And before the Democratic National Convention two weeks ago, her numbers were worse than at any point in her political career.

That was then.

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll is the latest to show Clinton surging to a big lead in the presidential race. And a large reason for that is that Democrats have quickly rallied to her cause. Today, 63 percent of Democrats say they have a "strongly favorable" opinion of Clinton. That number is up a whopping 21 points from less than a month ago, and it's the highest it has been since 2012, when Clinton was a popular secretary of state.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is warning donors that the Republican party's House majority could be in jeopardy, according to The New York Times.


Ryan spoke in private last week to a group of donors at a political conference in Colorado sponsored by the industrialists Charles G. and David H. Koch.
During the conference, the speaker said donors shouldn't put their focus completely on retaining the Senate, and noted that Republican control of the House may also be at risk, the Times reported, citing a Republican who heard the talk.

There is reportedly growing concern among the party's biggest contributors over retaining control of Congress with Donald Trump as the party's nominee.

Democrats would need to pick up more than 30 House seats to take control. But according to the Times, Republicans are worried about a scenario in which they lose enough seats that Ryan is weakened and the party is on the defensive.

This tired attempt to revive these scandals in order to create the illusion of a horse race is not serving the public.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a talk at the National Association of Black Journalists-National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention Friday, during which she focused on expanding economic opportunity for African-Americans and Latinos across America.

But instead of focusing on this, the press went for the emails. Again.

The press focused on why the public finds a trust issue with Clinton right after they asked her again about emails that have been more investigated than any other politician’s emails.

The bottom line is the FBI found no evidence that Clinton broke the law with private emails. This happened in May. It was extensively covered. It is now August.

This tired attempt to revive these ginned up, phony scandals in order to create the illusion of a horse race is not serving the public.

Clinton will find a way to keep getting her message out there and she will find a way to help the press understand that there are not two dangerous cartoon characters running for president, thus one campaign is a drama-fueled stumble from gaffe-to-gaffe, full of delusions and absolute lies and one is not. She will hopefully do more press conferences even though the press is stuck in reverse with her emails, simply because it’s the right thing to do.

It’s time for the press to let go of the failed attempt to make something of the phony email scandal and with it the false notion that there are two equal choices running for president. This obsession with Clinton’s emails has long ago jumped the shark and the hypocrisy of the press on this issue is troubling.