On the heels of the Democratic National Convention and with just over 100 days until the general election, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine kicked off a campaign swing Friday that will take them through economically struggling regions of Pennsylvania and OH, which GOP rival Donald Trump has put at the top of his target list of swing states.
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The internet took Barack and Hillary on a journey through time and history.
In her first rally since accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton turned Donald Trump’s signature slogan on its head.
Donald Trump fired back at Hillary Clinton a day after she accused the Republican nominee of being too thin-skinned to have control of the country’s nuclear arsenal, saying she “doesn’t know how to win”. “I’m telling you we’ve made progress but we have work to do”, Clinton said, subtly responding to Trump’s criticism that the DNC was delivered from a “fantasy universe”.
Remarking on Donald Trump’s reliance on fear, Hillary Clinton quoted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous fear quote that he gave during the throes of the Great Depression.
“I’ll tell you something else, [the Founders] also expected a kind of raucous debate in America”, Clinton said in apparent response to the protesters.
Opinion polls show a potentially tight race in OH and Pennsylvania, both of which President Barack Obama won in the 2012 election.
Throughout the convention, Democrats tried to convey the stakes of the election not only to Sanders backers but to Republicans concerned about Mr Trump’s bombastic tone and foreign policy positions. There can hardly be anything Clinton aides would want to hear more than that, given their hard work at the convention to chip into Americans’ perceptions that Clinton is untrustworthy.
“We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against. But we are not afraid”, she said.
Trump, 70, sent out a flurry of comments on Twitter on Friday morning lambasting media coverage of the speech as “a joke”, calling the address “very long and very boring” and accusing Clinton of wanting to shut down “coal mines, steel plants and any other remaining manufacturing”.
He campaigned in another swing state, Colorado, on Friday and was scheduled to visit OH next week.
An estimated 27.8 million people watched Clinton’s appearance at the Democratic National Convention across six broadcast and cable networks, early Nielsen data showed.
Trump defended himself in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and blasted Clinton as dishonest and weak.
Economic issues will be crucial as the White House campaign enters its final three-month stretch.
The Clinton-Kaine ticket is taking a hard blue-collar turn as the Democratic nominee tries to reach out to working Americans, including independents and disaffected Republicans, after formally wrapping her contentious primary against Bernie Sanders this week.
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