In a softball exclusive interview with President Obama conducted on Tuesday and aired on Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie teed up the Democratic commander-in-chief to blast Republican nominee Donald Trump: “Hillary Clinton says that Trump is most risky candidate ever to run for president”.
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Malik Obama tried to use his presidential connections during a run for governor of Kenya’s Siaya County in March 2013.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Anything is possible. Obama claimed he would have a “direct line to the White House”, but only managed 2,792 votes – about 140,000 votes behind the victor.
Aides said Obama was to make a familiar case for what has been achieved during his two terms, highlighting America’s recovery from the Great Recession. The four-day confab in Philadelphia – the City of Brotherly Love – has so far been less than fraternal. Having fought his own bitter primary against Clinton eight years ago, Obama could offer a conciliatory message.
Michelle Obama didn’t mention Trump’s name but spoke about negative campaigns and bullying.
“Anything is possible”, he told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie in an interview aired on Wednesday.
Speaking live from Kenya on British TV, Malik Obama said that Barack “has this attitude like ‘I’m the president, I’ve made it, I’m the star here'”.
“I’m not going to hit that bar so let me concede top speech-making already to my wife, but I couldn’t have been prouder of her”, he said.
Republicans see the missing emails as a smoking gun, however. “This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”.
Her convention has made little mention of the economic insecurity and anxiety that has, in part, fuelled Trump’s rise with white, working-class voters. Democrats have little noted the threat of terrorism or the Islamic State group.
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“One of the dangers in an election like this is that people don’t take the challenge seriously”.
