On the skids in the polls and under fire for not releasing his tax returns, Trump’s campaign has been sharpening a new attack on Clinton: claiming she is not healthy enough to serve as president.
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Clinton’s campaign is both prodding Trump to release real medical information and poking fun at his unconventional doctor’s letter after the doctor who wrote Trump’s note said that he spent five minutes writing the report, which declared that Trump would be “unequivocally” the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama said, “If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from”.
But those two efforts, to engage on television and with Latino voters, did not intersect.
Trump is also expected to unveil on Monday his second ad of the general election. A campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Only the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA is airing ads on Spanish-language TV, but just in Colorado, Passwaiter said.
In a speech on August 25 that flayed the Republican nominee as an outlier channeling the views of white supremacists and courting the “fringe element” of his party, Clinton invoked the names of former President George W. Bush, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Arizona Senator John McCain and former Senator Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican nominee, to set up the contrast with Trump.
Clinton is starting this week by announcing her proposals for dealing with mental health issues.
“Doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink – and that’s simply the best advantage you can have to live – and he’s got a good family history”, he added.
A Clinton campaign official, who discussed the sensitive topic on condition of anonymity, rejected the notion that the candidate is undermining down-ballot Democrats. It’s worth noting, too, that almost three-fourths of voters, 72%, know Trump hasn’t yet released his returns, but only 56% of voters know that Clinton has released hers.
The rumors gained more momentum after Trump questioned the former first lady’s well-being. But whom Trump considers a criminal remains unclear. All are battleground states that have tended to swing recent elections one way or the other.
“I’m going to apologize for the offensive picture that many thought was offensive, but I’m not apologizing for the message that it was carrying”, Burns said.
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“People have short memories and forget that just in December of past year Trump stood in front of the RJC and said, ‘You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money.’ And then went on to say, ‘You want to control your own politicians.’ That came and went, and I don’t think it got the attention it deserved”, Deutch asserted. “It’s more of the same, but worse”, a narrator says.
