As Donald Trump faces troubles in the polls and within his own party, the Republican presidential candidate seems to have honed in on a strategy: attack Hillary Clinton’s character as much as possible. “What he has laid out is the most risky, reckless approach to being president than I think we’ve ever seen”, Clinton told Rose.
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“She is a totally unhinged person”.
But in his July 5 press conference, Mr. Comey blew that defense, saying she and anyone in her position as secretary of state “should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation” and “even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it”.
Among Republicans, the taboo of voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the USA presidential election has been broken; several personalities from the right have been publicly rejecting Donald Trump, immersed in one of the most serious controversies of his campaign to date.
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president”, he said at a rally in Iowa, “you will have really, in my opinion, the destruction of this country from within”. “I may have short-circuited and for that I will try to clarify”.
Clinton had pulled well ahead of Trump on the heels of the Democratic National Convention last week, where she became the first woman to accept the USA presidential nomination from a major political party. But sooner or later, she will have to avail herself to more press scrutiny, or she’ll look weak and timid, and perhaps concealing.
Clinton will find a way to keep getting her message out there and she will find a way to help the press understand that there are not two risky cartoon characters running for president, thus one campaign is a drama-fueled stumble from gaffe-to-gaffe, full of delusions and absolute lies and one is not. You know the list, you’ve reported on it.
But the harsh reality for Trump is that there might not be enough working class whites without a college education for him to overcome Clinton’s huge advantage among women, African-Americans and Hispanics, the fastest growing minority group in America.
“We need unity. We have to win this election”, Trump told a rally in Ryan’s state of Wisconsin.
Questioned about why a majority of voters don’t trust her, Ms. Clinton referred to her high approval ratings when she was Secretary of State and a Senator from NY.
In attendance, however, were former state Rep. Jim Lawrence, who’s running for the U.S. House seat in the 2nd Congressional District, and state Rep. Al Baldasaro, who earned broad condemnation recently for advocating Clinton’s execution for treason.
Donald Trump looked to allay concerns about his fitness to hold the presidency by assuring voters here that he’s not trigger-happy when it comes to nuclear weapons, as he launched a fresh assault on Hillary Clinton, calling her “unbalanced” and raising new questions about her trustworthiness.
“I thought she had a prepared speech that I’ve heard several times”, Brendon Benavides, executive producer for Good Morning San Antonio at KSAT News and a candidate for NAHJ president told CNBC.
The dueling Detroit addresses come as new polls show Clinton gaining ground on economic issues. When subtracting the candidates’ strongly unfavorable from their strongly favorable ratings, using averages over March and April, Clinton scores negative 20 and Trump negative 40. In an open letter released this weekend, more than 50 New Hampshire veterans blasted Trump and declared support for Clinton.
Trump and Clinton each have some of the lowest ratings on likeability and trustworthiness in the history of US presidential elections.
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The poll showed most respondents disapproving of Trump’s handling of the matter, with even 61 percent of Republicans saying he had behaved incorrectly.
