Over half think the main reason Clinton (51 percent) and Trump (55 percent) are running is for themselves – rather than because they are truly interested in serving the country.
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Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, released a two-page letter from his doctor Saturday vouching for his “excellent” health, summarizing his medical history and results of a July physical exam. Pence, 57, released the letter after Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, also provided some details of their medical history. At an N.R.A. conference in May he made similar comments, and he has tweeted repeatedly that Clinton wants to take away conservatives’ gun rights. “OK, it would be very risky”. Trump’s remarks came when he was criticising the gun policy of the Democratic presidential nominee.
“Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, has a pattern of inciting people to violence”, Robby Mook said in a written statement.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”, he continued.
Trump’s long-expressed doubts that Obama was born in the United States – despite a birth certificate proving Obama’s eligibility for the presidency – resurfaced with a Washington Post interview Thursday in which Trump would not say whether or not he believed the president was born in Hawaii in 1961. Photo caption: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the James L. Knight Center, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Miami. Under pressure, Pence defended himself by reminding Raddatz that members of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign leaned on questions of citizenship to take jabs at then Senator Barack Obama. On the other hand, Trump is seen as more likely to “change Washington” by 47% to 20%. “I finished it”, Trump declared Friday in a brief statement at the end of a televised campaign appearance in which he touted his new hotel and his endorsements from military veterans.
They are ratcheting up advertising and dispatching their top supporters to Pennsylvania, from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden to last week’s visit from President Barack Obama. “There can be no other interpretation”, he said at the time.
If Democrats want to beat Donald Trump, they need to get past the freakout stage and get to work.
The effort marks an unusual moment of introspection for Clinton, who has long refused to engage in the kind of public self-examination that can help transform would-be heads of state into relatable figures.
The immigration issue has been central to Trump’s campaign since he said last summer that many Mexican immigrants were drug smugglers and rapists. She called half of Trump’s supporters “deplorables” – then apologized for saying “half” – only to fall ill with pneumonia and wobble during an abrupt exit from this year’s 9/11 memorial ceremony.
Trump’s role as chief promoter of the conspiracy theory about the nation’s first black president has left him with nearly no support among African-Americans and has turned off moderates who bristle at its racist undertones. “I don’t think so”.
And he took a gratuitous shot at broadly popular laws requiring voters to show photo identification, telling the audience in Akron that people have a right to vote “in most cases … depending on what state you’re living in”.
“We will not elect a chief bigot of the United States of America”, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex.
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Trump senior adviser Boris Epshteyn said later Friday on CNN that Trump was simply “being sarcastic” in his remarks. But like their candidate, they tried to blame Hillary Clinton’s campaign and rejected any notion that Trump’s political identity is founded on five years of peddling the false rumor that Obama was born elsewhere.
