Polls Show Clinton Running Table in Battleground States; Trump Says "Being Sarcastic on Obama, Clinton and ISIS": GOP Donors Cutting Trump

When the presidential race is expanded to four candidates - including Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein - the margins remain essentially the same.

In Colorado, Clinton leads Trump by 12 points, 41 percent to 29 percent, with Johnson at 15 percent and Stein at 6 percent.

In Florida, the Democrat is ahead of her GOP opponent by five points, 41 percent to 36 percent, with Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 4 percent.

In the four-way North Carolina contest, it's Clinton at 45 percent, Trump at 36 percent, Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 2 percent.

And in Virginia, Clinton gets 43 percent, Trump gets 31 percent, Johnson gets 12 percent and Stein gets 5 percent.

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Donald Trump appears to be walking back his claim that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were the "founder" and "co-founder" of ISIS, suggesting that attack was just "sarcasm."

This isn't the first time the Republican nominee has claimed that a controversial statement was just a joke. He told FOX News last month that he was "being sarcastic" when, at a July 27 news conference, he appeared to call on Russia to "find" Clinton's deleted emails

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