While she was Obama’s secretary of state, Clinton exclusively used a private email server for her government and personal emails, rather than the State Department’s email system.
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The Clinton trust campaign is turning to powerful advocates, chief among them President Barack Obama, to vouch for the Democratic candidate shadowed by an FBI investigation on the brink of her presidential nomination.
The president and vice president are exempt from many legal strictures, but President Obama has reportedly taken precautions ahead of his first campaign appearance for Clinton in North Carolina later this week.
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is criticizing her GOP rival, Donald Trump, for his brash tactics, telling thousands of teachers that bullying should not be allowed from somebody running for the White House.
Adding to growing suspicion over potential conflicts of interest, The New York Times reported this weekend that Hillary Clinton is considering keeping Lynch on as attorney general if she is elected president. In his remarks, the president will act as a character witness for his former secretary of state, who is struggling to convince voters of her trustworthiness and honesty. Priorities USA, a super PAC set up by former Obama officials to support his re-election, was taken over by Clinton allies and repurposed to help her win the White House, and numerous same donors who funded the group in 2012 are returning with their checkbooks, including media moguls Haim Saban and Fred Eychaner, who have both given the group millions this year. Still, Comey’s scathing criticism of Clinton – he called her “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information – ensures the matter will continue to hang over her campaign. “They were rivals, they had their differences; that gives him some additional standing”.
Voter registration statistics underscore a competitive state: North Carolina has about 2.6 million registered Democrats, compared with 2 million registered Republicans and 1.9 million unaffiliated registered voters. “After Clinton got off, they were like, ‘that wasn’t good.’ And I know from others who were in the actual auto with her that her people knew immediately the political ramifications of it and were very upset”. “They did not discuss the Department of Justice’s review”.
The foe-to-friend story will be at the center of the Obama-Clinton show in Charlotte, North Carolina, aides to both say.
On Sunday’s news shows, Sen.
Presidents make all their airplane flights on Air Force One, no matter the goal of the trip.
The White House confirmed Monday that Clinton and Obama will travel to the event together on Air Force One. Political committees are required to contribute to the cost of a president’s campaign-related travel, though a portion of such costs is borne by taxpayers, too. But Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, isn’t almost as happy with the president’s offering.
It’s the president’s first appearance with his former secretary of state during the 2016 campaign.
It’s just the latest report to suggest the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee likely won’t be prosecuted. And it nearly certainly won’t stop Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from continuing to make the server a campaign issue.
But the June 15 rally was postponed due to the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub.
Obama narrowly won North Carolina in the 2008 presidential election, becoming the first Democrat to win the state since 1976.
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But what should have otherwise been a celebratory moment for Clinton was partly overshadowed – yet again – by a scandal that continues to dog her campaign. His campaign aggressively registered more young people and black voters, and he drew support from moderates in the booming suburbs of Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham.
