Donald Trump’s effort to end the controversy he helped stoke over President Barack Obama’s citizenship has handed Democrats a fresh opportunity to motivate voters, particularly African Americans, who are offended by an issue that had faded to the recesses of the campaign. “ISIL, North Korea, poverty, climate change – none of those things weighed on my mind like the validity of my birth certificate”.
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After years of fanning false rumors that Obama wasn’t actually born in the United States, Trump declined to answer whether he now believes Obama is a natural-born USA citizen in an interview with the Washington Post this week, as he has done throughout the campaign.
At last night’s Congressional Black Caucus gala, Obama gave a speech in which he urged the black community to vote for Clinton in order to preserve his legacy and all the “progress we’ve made”. In fact, if you want to give Michelle and me a good send-off.don’t just watch us walk into the sunset. “And when I said that I think she is somebody who is as qualified as any individual who has ever run for this office, I meant it”. “He missed that whole civics lesson about slavery and Jim Crow, but we’ve got a museum for him to visit”. “We will educate him”. We know the progress we’ve made despite the forces of opposition, despite the forces of discrimination, despite the politics of backlash. “We can’t let Barack Obama’s legacy fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t understand that, whose unsafe and divisive vision for our country will drag us backwards”, she said. Neither the White House nor Clinton’s team has said when and where the president will travel next to argue the case for Clinton, but Obama is expected to spend the bulk of October on the road campaigning for her. Clinton, his former secretary of state, was honored for becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major party.
“We have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community. Democracy is on the ballot.Hope is on the ballot, and fear is on the ballot too”. “He shows no interest in even gaining the rudimentary knowledge required to make really hard decisions on a day-to-day basis”.
Referring to Trump’s remark that Obama was born in the United States after claiming otherwise, the US President said, “There’s an extra spring in my step tonight. This is not something where it’s all flash and fizzle”.
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Trump on Friday told a crowd in Miami that since Clinton is for gun control, her Secret Service detail should disarm and, “let’s see what happens to her”. “Get people registered to vote”.
