“Hillary Clinton is the person – and I mean the first person – to ever run for the presidency of a country effectively proposing to abolish the borders around the country that she is supposed to be representing”, said Trump.
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It’s a deeply uncertain proposition given Trump’s staggeringly negative standing with most Americans.
“Our nation should not accept one lost American life because our country failed to enforce its laws”, the Republican presidential candidate said.
But his strategy doesn’t require moving huge segments of the electorate.
A CBS News Battleground Tracker poll issued Sunday has Trump and Clinton tied at 42 percent across 13 battleground states.
Indeed, Trump has galvanized working class whites more than any Republican candidate in decades, whereas Clinton has not garnered anything near that sort of enthusiasm. He’s rolled out proposals on policies in which he’s shown no previous interest, including child care and paid family leave. Clinton also made a pitch at the same dinner for African-Americans’ support. The latest horserace poll surveyed 1,579 likely voters over the past week.
Fleischer said that Clinton’s staff had spread the rumour.
During the speech the President also joked about Donald Trump’s admission about his birth certificate.
‘We’ve been in touch with various officials including in the mayor’s office in NY to learn what they are discovering as they conduct this investigation and I’ll have more to say about it when we actually have the facts, ‘ she said. “Go vote.” Obama’s ardent speech came less than two months before election day and marked his most forceful plea to the black community to get behind Ms Clinton in the presidential race.
“He will in some clumsy way force real change”, said former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who is an adviser to Mr Trump.
Ms Doyle said that was a “lie” – but admitted, in the same tweet, that she had fired the “rogue” staffer who had used email to spread the theory. This is in contrast to other major forecasters like fivethirtyeight.com, realclearpolitics.com and the New York Times’ Upshot, which has Clinton at a 60 to 70 percent chance of winning. The issue is almost certain to come up during Trump and Clinton’s first debate, September 26.
Employing a different line of attack on Friday, Trump again raised the threat of violence against Clinton, suggesting during a rally in Miami that Clinton’s Secret Service guards voluntarily disarm and “see what happens to her”.
Trump’s rival, Hillary Clinton, is a former secretary of state who has long relationships with many foreign leaders.
Aides say the tightening polls have validated the new approach in Trump’s eyes.
She denied that Hillary Clinton had started the Birther theory – then admitted that someone in the Clinton campaign had, in fact, been involved.
Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who worked for Florida Sen.
Campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri says Clinton will use the Monday morning event at Temple University to “speak directly to millennial voters about how they have the most at stake in this election”.
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“Just before I got off the plane a bomb went off in NY and nobody knows what’s going on but we are living in a time-we better get very tough folks”.
