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| Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in Brooklyn have been evacuated after a white substance was discovered in an envelope, according to police. | Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in Brooklyn have been evacuated after a white substance was discovered in an envelope, according to police. |
| The substance was first discovered by two interns at a campaign office in Manhattan at around 5pm local time and was taken to Ms Clinton's Brooklyn headquarters, triggering the evacuation of the 11th floor, a New York Police Department spokesman said. | |
| A total of four people were exposed to the substance, police said, though there have been no injuries or reported illnesses. Police are testing the substance and investigating the case. | |
| Ms Clinton was not in New York at the time of the evacuation. | |
| The former Secretary of State was at a community college in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of a campaign tour. | |
| New polls show Ms Clinton is closing in on Donald Trump in the key battleground state — meaning her campaign has glimpsed the possibility of sweeping to victory across all the traditional swing states. | |
| The evacuation of her office comes after she claimed her rival was a threat to American democracy for not vowing to honour the results of the upcoming Presidential election. | |
| Ms Clinton said she had visited countried whose leaders jailed their political opponents and refused to accept the results of elections they did not win. | |
| “We know in our country the difference between leadership and dictatorship,” she said. |