“The map favours us and, in a way, the dynamics right now favour us”, said Joel Benenson, Clinton’s senior strategist.
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Donald Trump last night suggested that if Hillary Clinton is able to pick federal judges as U.S. president, nothing could be done to protect the right to bear arms.
The Democratic presidential nominee sought to seize momentum as Republicans – including Trump – struck an nearly defeatist note about their Election Day chances. It’s a strategy that initially anxious some Clinton aides, who feared he would drown out their candidate’s general-election message.
“It’s called the power of unification – Second Amendment people have incredible spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, said Jason Miller, Mr Trump’s senior communications adviser.
“Clinton responded yesterday to Trump’s suggestion at an Iowa rally, saying, “words matter”.
“I do not believe a violent message was his true intent”, Summey said. “I know where his head and his heart is”. Republicans have seized upon the millions in speaking fees and a tone-deaf comment by Clinton in a 2014 interview that she was “dead broke” after leaving the White House in 2001.
By not releasing them during the campaign, he is breaking with a 40-year bipartisan tradition of transparency expected of presidential nominees. “This is not just about rolling up the score”.
“I’m not here to take away your guns”, she said in her Democratic National Convention speech.
“I think that just shows that if someone is insecure, they don’t trust their own opinions”, Moran said of the two men.
Trump made the comments at a North Carolina rally on 9 August 2016, in which he implied that if elected, Hillary Clinton would stack the high court with anti-gun judges: “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
But his scripted remarks were quickly eclipsed by the latest in a series of blunders and controversial statements that appear to have handed Clinton’s campaign a boost in the polls, particularly with Republican women and college-educated voters who make up a key piece of the GOP base.
She had previously taken heat for saying in June 2015 that she and Bill Clinton were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001 because her husband’s legal bills had put them in debt.
“Of course, I’m being sarcastic”, he said the next day.
Trump senior communications advisor Jason Miller said in a statement that Americans would rather see deleted emails from Clinton’s private server, Clinton Foundation records and transcripts of speeches she gave to Wall Street business people.
Clinton’s strategy borrows from President Barack Obama’s winning playbook against Mitt Romney in 2012.
Trump, a NY businessman seeking his first elected office, has been mired in controversies in recent days, and many establishment Republicans have begun to distance themselves from his campaign.
Has Trump just convinced independents-the majority of whom he needs in order to win-that Hillary Clinton, while not the flawless candidate, is best suited for the job?
Nick Merrill, a Clinton campaign spokesman, said in response to the suit: “While no one can imagine the pain of the families of the courageous Americans we lost at Benghazi, there have been nine different investigations into this attack and none found any evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton”. “At the same time, they can’t turn to Donald Trump because he scares them”.
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Yet on Thursday, Trump was reduced to citing a poll that actually showed him a few points behind Clinton and arguing the race between them was close. One thing’s certain: the “Trump pivot” is not happening.
