“That’s why Donald Trump’s statement isn’t sufficient”. Take their – and let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away. In fact, Clinton has not challenged the constitutional right to bear arms, despite calling for some stronger gun control measures.
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Many blacks gave Trump no credit for finally letting go of the long dispelled notion that Obama, born in Hawaii in 1961, actually hailed from outside the country he now leads. Countless times the New York City real-estate mogul, who even before becoming a presidential candidate was a weekly contributor to Fox & Friends, appeared in the news media and attempted to humiliate Mr. Obama by inquiring without merit as to his birthplace.
Trump, whose years of spreading conspiracy theories about Obama’s birth helped make him deeply unpopular among African Americans, made no reference to the “birther” matter in Miami. In 2011, after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney joked about Obama’s citizenship, Christie went on the NBC News program “Today” to say Romney regretted it. Christie returned to the same show past year, that time as a presidential candidate, to say that he would correct Trump on Obama’s citizenship and that “the president’s a Christian and he was born in this country”.
Mr Trump had just completed a few days of relative discipline – he resisted the temptation, for instance, to denigrate Ms Clinton for taking days off the trail to recover from pneumonia – that many observers had put down to the influence of his new campaign chief, Kellyanne Conway. “I finished it. I finished it”.
Last month, critics called Trump reckless and unsafe for telling a North Carolina crowd there was nothing they could do about Clinton naming judges if she’s elected, “although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”.
Trump had been asked whether he now believes Obama was born in the United States as recently as last week and hadn’t affirmed that position, until Friday. The Republican Party of Florida has held fast to its nominee, remaining confident Republicans would emerge with a win come November.
“You can not elect a president of the United States whose campaign is based on bigotry”, said Sanders, the runner up in the Democratic primaries, at Kent State University.
Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, said in a statement: “Trump’s actions today were disgraceful”.
At a Sunday rally headlined by Warren, several black women in attendance noted that Trump did not apologize Friday for pushing a discredited theory about Obama for five years.
Christie: “No, Jake. It wasn’t like he was talking about it on a regular basis”.
But saying Trump’s admission of the error was behind him – as two sitting governors and several other Trump supporters did across the Sunday talks shows- doesn’t necessarily make it true. He raised questions in 2012 and in 2014, when he suggested on Twitter that hackers check Obama’s “place of birth”.
Clinton also leads Trump among independents, 42 to 33 percent. “She was all in!”
And to think with just 124 days to go, under the wire, we got that thing resolved. And a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. “She looks down on us”.
Hours after conceding that Obama was born in America, Trump sparked another controversy when speaking to a crowd in Miami about Clinton’s safety. At a Trump rally in March, Secret Service agents leaped on stage and surrounded him as colleagues tackled a man who jumped a barricade and ran toward the candidate.
“I think what we should do is she goes around with armed bodyguards, like you have never seen before”.
“It’s an effort to delegitimize a very powerful and compelling achievement by an African-American political leader”, Fields said. Yeah. Take their guns away.
Fresh attention to Trump’s long-running and false accusations questioning Obama’s citizenship could also inspire others from the crucial “Obama coalition”, which included young voters, Hispanics and college-educated whites, who could use some nudging to turn out for less-popular Clinton.
The New York Times writer argued that “there just isn’t a parallel” between Clinton and Trump on birtherism because Trump, “Pushed [it] into mainstream at a point in 2011 when it was considered by most conservatives to be a fringe issue”.
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During an impassioned speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, an organisation that carries out research on issues affecting African-Americans, Mr Obama said it would be an “insult to his legacy” if the black community voted for Donald Trump – or refrained from voting at all – in the upcoming election.
