Hundreds of demonstrators in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, chanted for the U.S. Republican presidential nominee upon Mr. Biden’s arrival, Reuters reported. And on NBC, reporter Andrea Mitchell noted something similar, “Clinton today bringing along Scranton’s hometown hero to make her case, even stopping at his childhood home”.
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Clinton then told the crowd she realizes many people may have friends who are considering voting for Trump but, “friends don’t let friends vote for Trump”, Clinton said to a thunderous ovation.
It will also include former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and two longtime Clinton advisers: Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, and Maggie Williams, who now leads the Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
Even as polls in the United States showed Republican candidate Donald Trump gradually falling behind his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton ahead of the November 8 general election, the mood is quite the contrary in Serbia where ultranationalists have strongly backed the NY real-estate tycoon.
Tpinion surveys show Trump trailing his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton nationally and in key battleground states.
Her campaign announced that former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, a former Colorado senator, would chair her White House transition team.
“Ladies and gentlemen Hillary has been there, she has been tested.
These are the reasons the radicals are supporting Trump”.
And he cited Clinton’s gender as a powerful asset for the job, saying electing the first female president would change the lives of American women and girls.
Clinton herself has revealed the extent to which she values Biden’s grasp on the middle-class psyche, incorporating some of his language as she contrasted Trump’s economic vision with hers.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani, who was the mayor of New York City during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (when President George W. Bush was in office), stumped for Trump in Youngstown, Ohio, where he [Giuliani] said there were no Islamic terrorist attacks before President Obama was elected in 2008, notes Talking Points Memo. If you’re anxious about your job, then there’s only one person in this election who will possibly help you and that is Hillary Clinton.
Clinton said Trump had been “all over the place” on foreign policy and had suggested sending in ground troops to fight the Islamic State group.
“Beau loved this country like I do”, Biden said, turning around and pointing to grassy hills nearby as American and Kosovo flags fluttered in the background. “That is off the table as far as I’m concerned”, she said.
At the time of the ultra-nationalist rally, Biden was in a government building in another part of Belgrade barred to protesters during his visit.
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Seeking a common bond, both Democrats pointed back to their family ties in northeastern Pennsylvania. Clinton noted her grandfather worked at a Scranton lace mill factory and that her father was raised here and later attended Penn State University. ABC’s Cecilia Vega on the Clinton campaign.
