Speaking at the annual NAACP conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the Republican National Convention opened several hundred miles away, Mrs Clinton insisted that Mr Trump was unfit to be president and announced a nationwide drive to register millions of new voters.
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Former Texas governor Rick Perry and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton offered less enthusiastic endorsements.
Retired Lt. General Mike Flynn, who served in the Obama administration, spoke to the RNC crowd tonight after Melania Trump did and really trashed Hillary Clinton.
In a recent Gallup poll, the only two institutions in the USA that now have majority popular support are the military and the police, at a time when Americans take a dim view on most institutions, especially Congress. That may bode well for Trump, experts said.
Rather than step into the shadows during the GOP convention, Mrs. Clinton instead tried to seize the spotlight with high-profile speeches Monday to the NAACP and the American Federation of Teachers.
Pat Smith, the mother of a State Department IT officer killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack who has become an outspoken Hillary Clinton critic, said the former secretary of state “deserves to be in stripes” for the death of Sean Smith.
“Hillary for prison”, Smith said.
“Two years ago, Republic-ans were envisioning a united Republican convention in Cleveland that would help them win a critical presidential battleground. I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son”. A research study from the George Mason University Center for Media and Public Affairs shows that Trump jokes made by the late-night hosts outnumber those of Clinton by a 3-to-1 margin since the start of the presidential campaign.
“The last time I talked to Sean, the night before the terrorist attack, he told me, “Mom, I am going to die”, Smith said.
Trump’s strategy in Rust Belt states like OH is to maximize both white turnout and his share of that vote, while presuming that Clinton simply can not match Obama’s performance in the black community. Donald Trump insults Mexican immigrants, even an American judge born of Mexican heritage.
Clinton told the conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which Trump declined to address, that the Republicans were becoming the party of Trump.
“We’d like a commander-in-chief who speaks of winning wars and not merely ending wars”.
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“As president, I will bring the full weight of the law to bear in making sure those who kill police officers are brought to justice”, she said. Others wrote that they were disgusted and found it unbelievable that the convention would use the mother of a slain soldier to push forward further anti-Clinton political purposes.
