Clinton is also targeting moderate voters – and especially Republicans – by depicting Trump and his supporters as extremists, and casting the race as “not a normal choice between a Republican and a Democrat”. She has contrasted Trump with former Republican presidential candidates John McCain, Bob Dole and former President George W. Bush, praising their decisive steps to counter racial bias and anti-Muslim sentiment.
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The ex-wife of Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO says he made anti-Semitic remarks when the couple was trying to get their daughters into a private school. The video also shows US Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s main opponent in the Democratic primary this year, calling that phrase a “racist term”. On Friday, he also continued his recent push to broaden his base of support among minority voters, convening a roundtable with Latino backers at his hotel in Las Vegas. While he has not wavered on his desire to build an impenetrable wall along the border with Mexico, he exhibited indecisiveness in recent days about his plan to deport 11 million immigrants living in the US illegally.
Thursday’s data is also the first to incorporate voter feedback in the wake of an Associated Press article detailing Clinton’s close ties with big donors to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state.
The Democratic presidential nominee, in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, defended the Clinton Foundation, saying the charitable work it has conducted has changed lives for the better and is in keeping with American values.
“We have gone above and beyond most of the legal requirements, beyond the standards to voluntarily disclose donors and to reduce sources of funding that raised questions – not that we thought they were necessarily legitimate, but to avoid those questions”, she said.
This week, the State Department said it is reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of an Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry that did not result in charges concerning Clinton’s use of a private server.
But her campaign team say the task will not be completed until December 30, just weeks before the victor of the election will be sworn into office.
In case you missed Clinton’s speech last night, her campaign boiled it all down to a two-minute political ad.
The agency told The Associated Press it expects to release the last of the files around December 30. The Associated Press’ lawyers asked the department late Friday to hasten its efforts and provide all of her minute-by-minute schedules by October 15. The Department of Justice should investigate the matter immediately.
Bill Clinton announced this week that if his wife is elected, the foundation will accept only U.S. contributions, that he will step down from the board and will no longer raise funds for the charity.
She promised to put in place additional safeguards to prevent conflicts of interest with her foundation should she win the White House.
I appreciate the concerns that people have expressed, and thats why I have made it clear that if Im successful in November we are going to be taking additional steps, she said. Her physician has said the former secretary of state has no serious issues. “They’ve been very disrespectful, as far as I’m concerned, to the African-American population in this country”, Trump said.
Clinton said it’s a “fair question” to ask why the Clinton Foundation doesn’t just turn all of its work over to another major philanthropic organization with global reach, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
And the complex plan for allowing donations from USA citizens and permanent residents, keeping some parts of the Clinton Foundation alive, and maintaining scores of Clinton-family allies on the payroll is less an opportunity for a clean slate than a guarantee of new controversy.
Clinton said her critics should look at the good work the foundation has done, for instance making low-priced HIV medicines available to millions around the world.
And as the two rivals gave currency to conspiracy theories of Clinton suffering from a “mysterious” illness and Trump being a puppet of Russian president Vladimir Putin, voters wondered when the curtain would fall on this Theatre of the Absurd.
“American workers are forced to compete now with people that are in our country illegally”, she said.
“Come on, Hillary”, he wrote.
Trump has described such attacks as attempts to “smear” his supporters.
If you start hearing the words “alt right” more and more in the run up to the presidential election, you should probably thank, well, the presidential election. Racists now call themselves “racialists” and white supremacists call themselves “white nationalists”.
Other interesting finding include that voters say 74-21 percent that Trump should release his tax returns publicly, including 62-31 percent among Republicans.
Taken aback, the respected four star general called her bluff saying, “Her people have been trying to pin it on me”.
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“I think every public official ought to denounce racism, and that is what Secretary Clinton did”, Cohen said, noting that the alternative-right ideology opposes the notion that all people are equal.
