Mrs. Obama is emerging as one of Clinton’s most effective advocates, especially with voters who backed President Barack Obama but are less enthusiastic about his potential Democratic successor.
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“This individual had been convicted for child rape and was slated to be deported – but his home country refused to take him back, so he was simply released”, Trump said. “I don’t know. I really don’t know”, he said in a July interview with Anderson Cooper.
Although Trump led among both male and female voters, his lead was strongest among men: 58.5 percent of male respondents told pollsters they planned to vote for Trump, while just 27.5 percent of men said they planned to vote for Clinton. But neither Clinton nor her campaign ever publicly questioned Obama’s citizenship or birthplace.
On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama made her first campaign appearance of 2016, trying to convince her and her husband’s supporters at a Virginia rally that Clinton is also worthy of their votes. Trump asked the crowd.
The comments Friday in Miami came hours after Trump finally reversed his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
“Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, has a pattern of inciting people to violence”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told Us in a statement late Friday. “I know the press – they’re furious at Donald Trump because they got punked yesterday, pure and simple”. “This kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate”. “There can be no other interpretation”, he said at the time.
He continued: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”, Trump said. Many have viewed Trump’s birther comments, which date back to 2011, as racist attacks on the nation’s first African American president.
Clinton “should be able to score points on this with suburban women who will decide this election”, said Schiffer, the political strategist and chairman of ReputationManagementConsultants.com.
Members of Clinton’s government-appointed guard detail should abandon their weapons because she wants to “destroy your Second Amendment”, Trump said, referring to the US Constitution’s clause that enshrines the rights of Americans to bear arms.
The Republican nominee campaigned in Houston, where he talked to a gathering of the Remembrance Project, a group founded to remember those killed by people living illegally in the USA and to press for tougher laws. He’s said repeatedly that he plans to build a wall along the US border with Mexico, and make Mexico pay for it.
He also said she has declined Remembrance Project’s offers to meet and argued Clinton, if elected, would extend President Obama’s “open border” polices and attempts to delay deportation through executive action. “The next president of the United States must stand in solidarity with all people oppressed in our hemisphere, and we will stand with oppressed people, and there are many”, he said.
It seems as if the Clinton camp has seen nothing but bad news for the past few weeks and Donald Trump is seizing the moment.
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“And they’re very happy”, he added.
