While campaigning in South Florida, which has a large Cuban-American population, Trump also said that if he’s elected president, he will reverse Obama’s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba – unless the country abides by certain “demands”. He said, among other things, that if African American turnout declines for Hillary Clinton, he would regard it as “a personal insult, an insult to my legacy”. “If you think that anyone is going to vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or against either one of them based upon this issue, then I think there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the concerns of the American people”.
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A recent Washington Post report gave Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, an 80 percent lead over GOP nominee Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTrump: Saturday attacks show Clinton won’t keep U.S. safe Bryan Cranston: Playing Trump would be “huge” Politics in the spotlight at Emmys MORE among black voters.
Trump finally said on Friday that he accepted that Obama was born in the US ― while still lying about his own history as a birther and patting himself on the back for his role in urging the president to release a long-form birth certificate in 2011.
“There’s an extra spring in my step tonight. We will educate him”.
Members of the CBC on Friday fiercely criticized the way Trump delivered his brief admission that Obama was born in the United States, saying it was insufficient and demanding an apology for Trump’s years-long push of “birther” claims.
“This isn’t just a semantical thing”, Kaine said. “We will educate him”.
One recent poll has shown Clinton as having more support from people under 30 than Trump – but well below the levels Barack Obama achieved.
Mr Trump ignored questions from reporters about his switch and has yet to explain why he abandoned the “birther” stance that fuelled his political fame and was viewed by critics as an attempt to delegitimise the nation’s first African-American president.
“Her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”.
Trump acknowledged Friday that Obama was in fact born in the United States, after years of pushing the “birther” conspiracy.
The race is now exactly tied across 13 states likely to decide the presidential election in November, according to the latest wave of the YouGov/CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker.
At the CBC dinner on Saturday, Clinton addressed Trump with the same contempt, telling attendees here that the presidency can’t “fall into the hands someone who doesn’t understand” Obama’s legacy, and “whose risky and divisive vision for our country will drag us backwards”. The Trump campaign continues to lie about the Republican nominee’s long history of birtherism, and now they are being suffocated by Donald Trump’s history of racism towards President Obama. “We can’t let Barack Obama’s legacy fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t understand that”. For hours, Clinton’s campaign obfuscated about what was wrong with her. The President made his first solo appeal this week, appearing at a campaign rally in Philadelphia and phoning in to African-American radio to talk up Clinton.
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Republican running mate Mike Pence says “we’re all troubled in our hearts” about explosions Saturday in New Jersey and NY and a knife attack in Minnesota. “He shows no interest in even gaining the rudimentary knowledge required to make really hard decisions on a day-to-day basis”.
