An analysis of polling data by Reuters/Ipsos shows the candidates running “nearly even” in the Electoral College count now that Donald Trump is projected to win Florida.
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“Period. Donald Trump can not distract from the inescapable fact that he is the one who embraced and promoted the racist birther lie and bears the responsibility for it”.
Obama began his speech saying: ‘I’ve got an extra spring in my step tonight. Again, not exactly what people are looking for.With this as with other issues, it leaves us wondering what the candidates are trying to hide.The same goes for Trump’s tax returns, as he has continued to resist pressure to follow the long-standing practice of releasing them to the public. “To think that with just 124 days to go, under the wire, we got that resolved”.
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Obama highlighted areas of progress during his two terms as president.
Geoff Garin, the Priorities USA pollster, said Trump’s surge in OH and elsewhere is largely due to his consolidation of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters.
“The candidate who has coattails is the candidate who is going to be able to pull in voters who might not otherwise have voted – and that’s what Obama was able to do in 2008 and 2012, especially among younger voters, African-American voters and minority voters”, Smith said.
Bernie Sanders is urging people turned off by their choices in the presidential election to turn out anyway, even if they think “everybody’s terrible”.
‘We will educate him.
“I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election”, Obama said with a stern look and booming passion.
Yet it took Mr. Trump five years of dodging, winking and joking to surrender to reality, finally, on Friday, after a remarkable campaign of relentless deception that tried to undermine the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president. Trump said he meant gun owners should vote against her, not try to kill her.
“If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter”, Mr Obama told the crowd, “read up on your history”.
‘There’s one candidate who will advance those things and another whose central theme is opposition to all that we’ve done. “My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot”.
Actually, the birther movement did originate among Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2008 Democratic primary, a fact the Times has consistently, willfully ignored for years in its coverage. Clinton reveled in imagining her rival “composing nasty tweets” as she derided him as “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified” to be president.
After a video showing her work over the years, Clinton appeared on stage wearing a long white top and black trousers.
Clinton spoke before Obama at the dinner.
When moderator Bob Woodruff asked the women about their job with veterans, and if they felt they had made changes, Laura Bush responded that the current scenario is entirely different than when veterans returned from Vietnam since people since to care more for the military and their jobs.
‘Even when hateful nonsense is throw their way Barack, Michelle and their two attractive daughters represent our country with class, grace and integrity.
Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook said Trump has “a pattern of inciting people to violence”.
Kaine also sought to explain Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark in the context of the birther controversy about President Obama.
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The awards dinner raises money for the foundation’s efforts funding scholarships and research. Trump was described by several as a bigot, as well as phony, crazy, arrogant and garbage.
