Following Hillary Clinton’s declaration on Thursday that Trump’s comment comparing Putin to Obama is “not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief – it is scary”, her running mate Tim Kaine hit both Trump and Pence on Friday.
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After zealously greeting Trump’s arrival on stage with raucous chants, shrieks and cries, the supporters cheered as he accused Clinton of being a corrupt criminal who could shoot someone with impunity.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 8, 2016.
Dustin Moskovitz says the Republican presidential nominee is divisive and risky.
The CNN (Clinton News Network) poll showed Trump leading Hillary by two points among likely voters nationwide, 45 percent to 42 percent.
In a statement Saturday, Clinton expressed “regret” for being “grossly generalistic” and using the characterization of “half” but also said – as she has several times before – that the Republican nominee is amplifying views of the alt-right and white supremacists. She touted the bipartisan nature of the meeting and vowed to work across the aisle as president to tackle national security challenges.
The Republican nominee was speaking at the annual National Guard Association convention and suggested that Clinton was attacking those in uniform, whether in the military or law enforcement.
Both candidates are hoping to capitalize on concerns about national security and paint their opponents as unqualified leading into the November 8 presidential election.
What we have are candidates who will say anything, voters who don’t seem to care, and moderators who would find it easier to herd cats. The campaign later said it did not realize Trump’s conversation with Larry King would air on RT, and that they would not have agreed to the interview had they known.
Critics of the network, which mostly targets audiences outside of Russian Federation and also includes programming in Spanish, Hindi and Arabic, have described it as a propaganda arm of Putin’s government. It is a campaign that has bonded a majority of Americans behind just one prevailing verdict: We really don’t trust, respect or even like the presidential candidate we are going to end up voting for. Indeed, Trump had made similar contributions to three other state attorneys general whose offices had been probing Trump University allegations.
Judging by the amount of time NBC’s Matt Lauer spent pressing Hillary Clinton on her emails during Wednesday’s national security presidential forum, one would think that her homebrew server was one of the most important issues facing the country this election.
According to a YouGov/Economist poll, Putin’s favorability rating in July 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea, was -54 among Democrats and -66 among Republicans.
On CNN Friday, Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, defended Trump’s media appearance and remarks to CNN’s Chris Cuomo. Experts inside and outside the government have pointed to Russian-backed actors as the source of the hack, which has been used to leak information in an attempt to embarrass Democrats.
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“This constitutes a direct threat to the United States, and we can not and will never accept this”, Clinton said.
“That includes Russian Federation”, he said. I’m not sure who.
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But Trump’s decision to line up with Putin was driven more by his membership in the “old boys’ club” than his sympathy for the Russian leader’s territorial aims, Cook said. “Vladimir Putin is violating the sovereignty of neighbouring countries”, Ryan said at his weekly news conference. Even some Clinton supporters will admit that she has mishandled – and often completely avoided – questions about her email and her family’s charitable foundation, fueling scrutiny of both.
