Electoral battles

Will Hillary sack her top aide to save herself? Huma in hiding as she pleads ignorance about emails on Weiner's laptop and faces jail if it's proved she lied. And new poll puts Trump a POINT behind




Questions are mounting about Huma Abedin's future in Hillary Clinton's campaign after FBI director James Comey announced the agency is investigating potentially classified emails on her disgraced husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop.

Abedin is in hiding at her Manhattan apartment while her boss continues to campaign – as a new ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll, taken after the revelation, shows her campaign in crisis with Trump just one point behind Clinton, with 45 percent support to her 46 percent.

Last week, Clinton was up 12 points, meaning that she lost a double-digit lead in a week's time.

A third of the likely voters polled said they were less likely to cast a vote for Clinton because of this additional email probe.

Clinton’s closest aide has reportedly pleaded ignorance about how the emails ended up on her husband’s laptop – and were subsequently found by FBI agents after DailyMail.com exposed him sexting a 15-year-old girl.

And even worse for her situation, Abedin swore under oath that she had handed over all of her devices that could hold emails relevant to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. If she’s found to have lied she could face up to five years in jail.