Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has unleashed a war of words on Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, appearing to blame her for the creation of Isis. Her efforts in fighting racial segregation and promoting children’s health, they said, were not indicative of greater policy knowledge than personality.
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Perhaps Trump has made a decision to cultivate a new image as a fair-minded critic and will soon be referring to the Democratic nominee as “Could Be More Ethical (Although, Really, Who Am I to Say?) Hillary”. Her quarter-century on the national stage has proved her to be capable and dedicated.
Clinton will surely carry the women’s vote this fall – women have voted more Democratic in every presidential election since 1980, but this year could feature the widest gender gap in modern electoral history. It was replaced by Trump’s strongly-delivered apocalyptic vision, which essentially said, “The world is going down a sinkhole and only I, Donald Trump, can roll back the clock and save you from it”.
The biggest box not ticked by Clinton on Thursday was a response to the low level of trust people have in her. There was little or no case for the defence of “Crooked Hillary” – as Trump calls her – and with 100 days to the election, this was a mistake as it will be her most vulnerable flank. Once upon a time the conventions chose candidates for the presidency, but now we have primaries and caucuses to do that. I had the urge to wave one that said “Free Hillary”. Khan took a slim volume from his suit coat pocket and addressed Trump: “Have you even read the United States Constitution?”
Clinton’s political vocabulary, by contrast, is dense and multilayered, just like her knowledge of various issues.
“Let’s be stronger together, my fellow Americans, let’s look to the future with confidence”, she said. “Donald Trump has a passion”, Kaine observed in his speech to the Democratic convention on Wednesday. Organizers were careful to keep those at a distance from Clinton’s speech, which would inevitably suffer by comparison.
Rallying in Colorado Springs, Trump at times seemed to brush off the fierce Democratic criticism, which went so far as to question his sanity.
She presented a sharply more upbeat view of the country than her rival Trump did when he was formally nominated for president at last week’s Republican convention, and even turned one of Republican hero Ronald Reagan’s signature phrases against the real estate developer.
‘On one hand she was saying there’s a need for a third term, an Obama third term.
Yet many believe that it was First Lady Michelle Obama’s well-received and emotional speech, in which she heaped praise upon Clinton, that helped lower the temperature.
“Through all these years of public service”, Clinton acknowledged to the convention audience in her acceptance speech, “the “service” part has always come easier to me than the “public” part”. He said she was trashing Trump ‘because she has no message’.
“Hillary Clinton. She’ll say anything, and change nothing”. He wants to renegotiate relationships, suspending commitments to our allies unless we get a better deal.
A country where the economy works for everyone, not just those at the top.
But you don’t fight Trump’s demagoguery with cliches and laundry lists.
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Not long after, the intrusion into a system used by the Clinton campaign came to light, first reported by Reuters.
