That is incredible. Republicans were going to have a rough go with Millennials regardless of who was nominated, but nominating Donald Trump was probably the worst candidate to nominate if you wanted to appeal to those voters.
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The very groups that Trump attacks – Latinos most particularly – are the groups that are increasing in numbers within the electorate.
“I think these polls – I don’t know – there’s something about these polls, there’s something phony”, Trump said Tuesday at a rally in Loudoun County, Va. “Young men. have real military guns and they’re not scared to use them”. There’s evidence from elections past that partisan preferences forged by young voters tend to “stick” to some extent as they get older.
There have always been dog-whistles in American politics. In every other year, loyalty from the two parties’ voters has been within a percentage point or the party with more support from its voters for its candidate prevailed.
Former Republican presidential candidate Dr. “The [voters] realize, as never before, that the stakes in today’s world are too high to risk their futures to the hands of frivolous, irresponsible, or inexperienced government”, Eisenhower said. In a short speech via satellite, he barely alluded to the Democratic nominee, then-Senator Obama.
Clinton rarely gives press conferences (and even this was a moderated Q&A, not a press conference), a point Donald Trump was quick to highlight to a group of reporters last week, saying, “It’s been 235 days since crooked Hillary Clinton has had a press conference”. She added that she wants to respect the “cone of silence” among her friends.
It’s interesting to watch how skillful the Clinton campaign is in picking off prominent Republicans. When asked about her likability in a question-and-answer session at a Washington conference for minority journalists Friday, she cited her approval ratings as secretary of state when she left office, 66 percent, and said she was confident that when voters truly listened to her platform, they would support it.
Sometimes the split came over policy.
“I was pointing out in both of those instances, that Director Comey had said that my answers in my Federal Bureau of Investigation interview were truthful. And beyond what [Ronald] Reagan may have thought of [George H.W.] Bush in 1988, he may simply have been running out of physical steam”. But I think right now – what is it, three, four months before an election – you’re going to end up having a choice.
“The dignity of the presidency is not what it used to be”. ‘This place is packed, ‘ Trump said. Clinton does, however, engage in one-on-one interviews, including in recent days with Fox News, a network she had previously avoided for almost two years. McIntosh said the Club for Growth meant to convince voters that they would need a “strong voice in the Senate and House”, regardless of their feelings about the presidential race.
Clinton’s trailblazing comes in a year where she faces off against a candidate who has faced intense criticism for how he speaks about women. “And Obama’s attacks are done with a measured tone, if not content”.
When asked whether her opponent Donald Trump is appealing to racists, Clinton said that “we have to acknowledge” that there is a racist and xenophobic appeal in his message.
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Her proposal drew some applause from the attendees at the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists joint convention in D.C. Right-wing activists tried to claim that Hillary didn’t say the “aren’t”. “Now she’s well-positioned to win this on her own”. Some of the sticking points are supporting her husband on the crime bill in the 90’s, voting to support the Iraq War in 2002, and many other issues important to Sanders supporters. Obama’s intense rhetoric could also backfire, discouraging voters who don’t like Obama but who might otherwise support Clinton.
