About an hour later, Trump bashed the fire marshal at a rally.
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“I’ve been saying let’s just beat her on November 8”, he said, “but you know what? I’m starting to agree with you”. “Nice Guy”, he said to applause.
“I am taking the gloves off, right?”
Post-convention it has become clear the presidential race will be fought in the struggling manufacturing towns, cities and rural farming communities of the Rust Belt, as Clinton used the days following her convention to try and win back some of the white working class voters that once made up a key piece of the Democratic Party’s electoral coalition.
The crowd in Colorado Springs began chanting “lock her up”, aimed at Hillary Clinton, as many people did at the Republican National Convention. You know who he is?
One of the most divisive U.S. campaigns in modern history is entering a new chapter with Republicans and Democrats having selected their nominees, leaving the candidates slogging it out before election day on November 8.
Ratings from Nielsen showed that 2.2 million more people had tuned in to watch Mr Trump’s acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention on July 21 than Mrs Clinton’s last Thursday. But that’s nothing unusual for Trump.
Friday’s comments came at a rally during which Trump also delivered a number of seemingly off-the-cuff tirades against his perceived enemies. “I started imitating somebody that was groveling”, said Trump on Friday.
That Pennsylvania, which Democrats have carried in every presidential election since 1992, is in play underscores the threat posed by Trump, who campaigned in Scranton on Wednesday.
“They won’t let them in, and the reason they won’t let them in is because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing, that’s why”, Trump said to loud cheers. Obviously I’m talking about with my verbal.
The criticism of one of Colorado Springs’ local heroes barely registered as a blip on Donald Trump’s controversy radar, as the Republican candidate has gotten himself into trouble constantly through his shoot-from-the-hip style of campaigning. Trump’s defense was that he spends millions of dollars to make his buildings compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as that he has “a good heart” and is “a smart person”.
“Colorado is very important”, Trump said repeatedly. “And it’s a question I get asked an terrible lot out here, and I’m gonna take a very serious look into that”.
A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not respond to questions from HuffPost about Trump’s compliance with the ADA.
Colorado is considered a battleground state in the 2016 election, which is why it’s where Trump is spending his first official day of the general election.
“We don’t resent success in America but we do resent people who take advantage of others in order to line their own pockets”, Clinton said.
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Still, his crowd was with him, boasts and threats and all.
