One, that Hillary Clinton first raised the question of Mr. Obama’s birthright.
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Obama delivered a direct appeal to these voters over the weekend at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner where he made a passionate plea to his supporters to show up in November for Clinton.
“In fact, if you want to give Michelle and me a good sendoff – and that was a attractive video – but don’t just watch us walk off into the sunset, now”.
The president was speaking specifically to an audience of African-American leaders, but his broader message is aimed at all corners of the young, diverse coalition that twice propelled him to the White House.
While Clinton holds a significant lead over Republican rival Donald Trump in every poll of Hispanic voters, less clear is whether these voters will turn out in numbers that Democrats are counting on to win.
“The DSCC has never really had a robust or a Hispanic engagement effort that I ever coordinated with, and that’s saying a lot being at the DNC under three different chairmen”, Morales said. “If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn’t matter who we elect – read up on your history”, the president said.
(Trump clocked in with 26 percent supporting, with Green Party nominee Jill Stein at 15 percent.) A similar CBS News/New York Times poll last Thursday found Clinton supported by 48 percent of respondents under 30, compared to the 60 percent Obama won in the 2012 election, Time reported. That frustration has been particularly acute with black voters who tell Obama they’re saddened by the end of his presidency but aren’t enthusiastically rallying behind the candidate who would safeguard most of his work.
“There’s an extra spring in my step tonight”. All the progress we’ve made is at stake in this election. In those same states, where Democrats’ goal of retaking the Senate hinge, some down-ballot Democrats remain unknown to many Hispanic voters.
Though the GOP nominee finally admitted on Friday that Obama was indeed born on American soil, he gave the controversy fresh life by claiming inaccurately that Clinton’s 2008 campaign started the furor and that he ended it – despite pushing the rumor years after Obama produced his birth certificate. The prince of birthers tried to blame the candidate who has denounced the birther movement.
Bill Clinton says that out of the hundreds of thousands of donors to the Clinton Foundation over the past 18 years, there must have been some people who gave to the foundation to gain influence with him and his wife.
Among women voters, Clinton leads Trump by 18 percentage points.
The new poll suggested that Clinton might be winning back voters from third-party candidate Gary Johnson, whose support has declined from 10 per cent to 8 per cent. Clinton was expected to meet Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week.
When she was asked about Trump’s comments at his Colorado rally, Clinton suggested he should have been more cautious.
But Clinton has an edge in the ground game, with experienced campaign managers who know how to go door-to-door in various districts and counties nationwide to drum up support for Clinton.
“I want you to know I’m not taking your vote or anyone’s vote for granted”, she said.
“And the reason I would, is because she’s had that searing experience of being at the World Trade Center as they were searching survivors”, Kaine said.
Clinton also condemned the attacks earlier on Sunday.
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But White House cautioned that the president, with a busy day job of his own, would not be a daily fixture on the campaign trail in October.
