Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect Obama’s former secretary of state.
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Clinton earned a firestorm of criticism after she slammed Trump voters at a fundraiser late Friday in NY, saying, “To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”.
To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’ Right?
And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up … he tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Some of those people were irredeemable, she said, but they did not represent America. “I’m not going to sit up here and do the tit-for-tat on what Donald said last night or the night before and Hillary vs. Donald”.
Kaine said he didn’t think Clinton’s comments will hurt his ticket’s efforts to court Trump supporters who are willing to listen to their message “if it’s reported fairly that she kind of talked about both halves”. That right there was basically the extent of what Donald Trump said after every single question he was asked.
The forum offered a preview of the questions they will face in their three forthcoming presidential debates, the first at Hofstra University near NY on 26 September.
While Trump supporters claimed Lauer disrespected their candidate, other viewers said the host repeatedly interrupted Clinton and never once interrupted Trump. “I regret saying ‘half;’ that was wrong”, she said in a statement. And to Andrea Mitchell from NBC, who was trying to ask her something inaudible as Clinton was ready to stop: “I love you, Andrea”.
“We need change, Matt”, he replied.
Trump on Saturday fired back at Clinton on Twitter, saying that she was “so insulting” to his supporters and that it would “cost her at the polls”.
“The other night in the Commander-in-Chief forum, Hillary Clinton answered questions on her emails horribly it seems with each week, she has a different answer”.
Mrs Clinton had found herself once again on the defensive during the forum over her private email server.
“For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans”, he added in a statement, calling Clinton “unfit” to be president.
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Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday challenged Republicans to respond to Trump’s comments lauding Putin.
