A former secretary of homeland security and the ex-governor of Arizona, Napolitano will discuss the 2016 presidential campaign, particularly Donald Trump’s “Second Amendment people” comments and new questions being raised about email exchanges between employees at the Clinton Foundation and the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
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The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which has endorsed Clinton, said Trump was encouraging gun violence “based on conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton”.
The latest bit of controversy shook Republicans, already rattled by polling showing Trump losing support among women and other segments of their party’s base.
HILLARY CLINTON (D), Presidential Nominee: Words matter, my friends. “I will work hard for the next three months to earn the support of anyone willing to put our country first”.
“We are going to invest in infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, our ports, our airports”, said Clinton during a rally in Des Moines, IA on Wednesday. He added that there would be nothing the people could do about that-with the exception of the Second Amendment people. “I want to tighten them and make them cover more people”, said Clinton during a rally in Kissimmee on August 8th. “We have to protect our second amendment, which is under siege”, he said to cheers. No such jokey interpretation was given to the threat coming at the North Carolina rally, although one lawmaker said it was insensitive even as a joke, given the history of political assassinations in America.
The campaign unveiled a new website, togetherforamerica.com, that lists dozens of Republicans and independents who back Clinton, including former director of national intelligence John Negroponte and former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg. But high-profile Republicans and rank-and-file voters appeared shaken on Wednesday after a string of Trump missteps, struggling with how to best reject Trump’s divisive candidacy.
John Negroponte, former director of national intelligence under president George W Bush, and former Republican US representative Chris Shays of CT, were among those who announced their support yesterday.
In a recent trend of battleground states, polls show Clinton over Trump in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. She has had a troubled relationship with the state since losing here to then-Sen. Iowa has six electoral votes, with 270 needed to win the presidency.
A spokesman for Donald Trump, the first major party nominee for president since Richard Nixon to refuse to release his tax returns, ridiculed Hillary Clinton’s latest tax disclosure Friday. “I promise. I promise”, Trump told his supporters in February.
“Words matter, my friends”, the former US secretary of state, who rarely engages in direct back-and-forths with her Republican rival, said at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Republican presidential nominee brushed off conservative radio commentator Hugh Hewitt’s attempt to reframe Trump’s observation as one that said Obama’s foreign policy created the conditions in Iraq and Syria that allowed IS to thrive.
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The Clinton campaign calls Trump’s statement risky. “But Mr. Trump is making me very nervous”. “Pay to play” might have been the phrase of Tuesday into Wednesday instead of “What the heck did he say?”
