At his Iowa rally, Trump will likely continue to slam Hillary Clinton for her recent remarks that about half of his supporters are “deplorables”.
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“No, I’m not in the name-calling business, Wolf”, Pence oozed. But Im also not going to validate the language Hillary Clinton used to describe the American people..
If you won’t say the KKK is deplorable, you have no business running the country.
Her first comments about her health condition came in a CNN interview late Monday, a day after a dizzy spell caught on video forced her to disclose the illness and cancel a West Coast campaign trip.
Hillary Clinton used humor Friday to address her recent pneumonia diagnosis, telling an audience of black women in Washington that the upside was that it “finally got some Republicans interested in women’s health”.
Duke has previously caused problems from Trump, who was criticised for taking too long to disavow the former KKK leader’s support for his campaign.
Pence also said that the GOP ticket has “momentum”, and when asked about its vulnerability with female voters, Pence argued that they are going to come out in large numbers for the GOP. Earlier this year, following reports Duke was preparing a Senate bid, the Republican Party of Louisiana called him a “hate-filled fraud” who has “no place in our current conversation”.
News stories last week quoted Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence saying, “I believe Barack Obama was born in Hawaii”. I was in the Republican caucus in the legislature. Duke pointed out that he had “a ideal Republican voting record” during his time as a state representative for Metairie in the 1980s.
Clinton has since retracted the word “half” – but she seems to be standing by the rest of her assertion that a significant number of Trump’s supporters are, specifically, racist, sexist, xenophobic and Islamophobic.
In a one-on-one meeting with Pence, Utah Sen.
Senator Lee is part of a staunch group of Republicans that have refused to endorse Trump. Steve Bannon, Trump’s new campaign chief executive, even essentially endorsed Ryan’s far-right primary challenger, Paul Nehlen. But he praised Pence as “a good man, a friend” and “a strong conservative”.
Standing nearby, State senate minority leader Jim Ananich, a Flint resident himself, said the goal of the protest early Thursday was to send “a strong message that Flint’s not a photo-op”.
“How stupid is it, that you can’t say he’s deplorable?” said co-host Joe Scarborough.
The night before at a rally in North Carolina, one Trump supporter’s violent outburst complicated his message.
As he works to gain ground against Clinton in the final stretch of the presidential race, Trump is increasingly repurposing Clinton’s attacks against her. “They are Americans. And the deserve the respect of the Democrat nominee for president of the United States”.
Outside the arena, reporters witnessed at least one protestor taking a swing at a Trump supporter and other near altercations as the two sides stood inches apart while hurling emotional insults at each other.
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Clinton’s comment about Trump’s supporters being deplorables put a dent in her polished and practiced manner, something the Trump/Pence campaign could have capitalized on. As several protesters were being escorted out by security, a man in the crowd grabbed a male protester around the neck and then punched him.
