Trump accuses Clinton of being ‘pumped up’, calls for drugs test

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for he and Hillary Clinton to take a drugs test before the final presidential debate – after appearing to suggest his rival was using performance-enhancing substances.

Speaking to supporters in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Trump said Clinton was getting “pumped up” ahead of Wednesday's third and final presidential debate.

“You want to know the truth? She’s getting pumped up. She’s getting pumped up for Wednesday night.”

“We’re like athletes...they make athletes take a drug test. I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate. Why don’t we do that? We should take a drug test – because I don’t know what’s going on with her,” he said.

“But at the beginning of her last debate she was all pumped up and at the end it was like 'uhh take me down' and she could barely reach her car. I think we should take a drug test. I‘m willing to do it.”

Some people had previously suggested Trump could be a cocaine user after his frequent sniffing during the secondary presidential debate. Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont and chair of the Democrat National Committee, tweeted: “Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?” 

The extraordinary allegations come as new research reveals Mrs Clinton is on course to comfortably win the presidency. The latest results from the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation survey suggest that, if the election were held this week, the Democrat's odds of winning are higher than 95 per cent.

The poll estimated that if the election were held this week, Clinton would win the election by a margin of 118 Electoral College votes. It is the second week in a row that the project has estimated her odds so high.

The results mirror other Electoral College projections, some of which estimate Clinton's chance of winning at around 90 percent.

It follows a horrendous week for the Trump campaign in which the candidate has repeatedly been accused of sexism and sexual assault.

After a leaked video from 2005 showed Mr Trump talking about groping females, several women have come forward to claim they were assaulted by the businessman. 

He has consistently denies the allegations, claiming today that he had never met the women involved and saying those accusing him of sexual assault were “sick”.

Mr Trump had previously told supporters in North Carolina:  "Right now, I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears. It's a phoney deal. I have no idea who these women are."