“We can not afford to act as if there is some equivalence here”, Obama told supporters of Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in Philadelphia.
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He said Clinton had learned those lessons as a senator and as secretary of state.
Obama’s campaign appearance at an outdoor plaza in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was his third for Clinton, including his speech at the Democratic National Convention. “This guy’s suddenly going to be your champion?”
Clinton said: “I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal”.
Clinton was resting at her home in Chappaqua, New York yesterday after being forced to cancel a West Coast swing due to a bout of pneumonia that she kept secret until she almost collapsed after a ceremony in New York on Sunday marking the Sept 11, 2001, attacks.
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating just hit 58% in a Washington Post/ABC News poll released this weekend – the highest it’s been since 2009, shortly after he took office. “This is a dark vision”, Obama said.
A Democratic congressman says Democrats have “no concern” about the health of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“This is the catastrophe that happens when [we] take care of every country except for our own”, Trump said in Canton in the U.S. state of OH on Wednesday. Obama recently returned from 10 days overseas in Asia and will attend a United Nations meeting next week, leaving him just six weeks of full-throttle campaigning for Clinton.
The president lauded new census numbers on income growth as proof that his administration’s policies have helped improve the economy, an attempt to undermine Trump’s argument that economic woes are deep.
VEGA: President Obama urging voters to choose the woman who has been a fixture in American politics for decades.
Trump, who has often bragged about his wealth, has come under fire himself for rhetoric against minorities during his campaign, including describing Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, suggesting that a judge could not be fair because of his Mexican-American heritage, and proposing a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.
Clinton left a 9/11 memorial early Sunday after she became dehydrated and overheated.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama doesn’t feel like he needs to help Clinton with damage control. The episode played into Trump’s efforts in recent weeks to raise doubts about Clinton’s stamina.
“This isn’t Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party”. “I have to do business with Putin … but I don’t go around saying, that’s my role model”, Obama said. Hillary Clinton has used the term “basket of deplorables” to describe half of Trump’s supporters.
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“And in this regard, obviously the President has made clear that he’s a strong supporter of Secretary Clinton in the presidential race”. Clinton canceled campaign events this week to recover. About 25 attendees contributed $33,400, while co-chairs contributed $100,000, according to a Clinton aide. The event hosts gave $US100,000. He then was flying to New York City for a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser.
