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Political surprises that come back to haunt at polling time

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10.10.2024

World of Politics with Harry McGee

They call it the October Surprise; in US Presidential election campaigns, there is an expectation that something will happen in October that will throw one of the candidates off course or impact the direction the campaign has been going.

It happened to Hillary Clinton in 2016, when the FBI opened an investigation into her use of a personal email account. The matter had been looked into but just days before polling, on October 28, the FBI and its director, James Comey, said it had found new........

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