Confident Clinton steps up in battle for Congress

Philadelphia

WITH polls giving her the edge on Election Day, Democratic White House nominee Hillary Clinton said late on Saturday that she planned to work hard to see her party make gains in Congress.

Speaking to reporters aboard her campaign plane, the 68-year-old former secretary of state said that she no longer wished to respond to the attacks or provocations of her opponent Donald Trump in the run-up to the Nov 8 vote.

The 70-year-old Republican billionaire, making what his team had billed as a key policy speech laying out his plans for the first 100 days of his presidency, did hit on some key issues…