Ridiculing Donald Trump over his fixation with the phrase “radical Islam”, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has said her Republican rival’s “reckless” ideas like banning Muslims from entering the United States would put the country in greater danger.
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“After Ted Cruz dropped out of the GOP presidential primary in early May, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus laid down a marker.”@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton”, he wrote on Twitter. He did not concede after his Tuesday talk with Clinton, but a Sanders spokesman said the meeting was “a positive discussion about how best to bring more people into the political process and about the risky threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation”. “I look forward to continued discussion between the two campaigns to make certain that your voices are heard and the Democratic Party passes the most progressive platform in its history and Democrats actually fight for that agenda”, he said.
But self-described democratic socialist Mr Sanders urged his millions of backers to keep taking on the political establishment.
“We have begun the long and arduous process of transforming America, a fight that will continue tomorrow, next week, next year and into the future”, he said. “At our convention in July, we’re going to nominate a qualified, capable candidate who will build on the hard-won progress of the last seven years”, she added.
If it is true that the best defense is a good offense, President Obama should be celebrating in the end zone now.
It is about ending a campaign finance system which is corrupt and allows billionaires to buy elections.
At the same time, 51 percent of Americans surveyed disapprove of Trump’s response to the weekend shootings, while only 25 percent said they approved of his conduct. Grijalva briefly addressed that issue in his statement, arguing that “unity will not be realized if the millions of voters who supported Bernie Sanders feel taken for granted”.
Sanders called for raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and achieving equal pay for women – issues on which Clinton is sympathetic. Sanders also criticized the lack of a 50-state strategy by the Democratic party, especially in the poorest states. He also often calls reporters “disgusting” and “horrible people”. He has not yet conceded the race or referred to Clinton as the likely nominee. Four minutes later, his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, began speaking at a union hall in Pittsburgh.
“Hillary Clinton will be totally controlled by the special interests”, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said.
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“It is not a radical idea”.
