Perhaps Trump’s most repeated falsehood is his claim he always opposed the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 USA military intervention in Libya.
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“It’s a small tell-tale sign, if you can’t answer this one simple question that was asked of you without diverting or trying to blame it on someone else, ” he said.
It is a shame that Chris Matthews can’t play Trump in the mock debates.
Hillary Clinton is breaking with President Barack Obama and backing legislation that would allow families of September 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for any role in the attack. “Four candidates should be included”, she wrote. That’s according to a spokesman, Jesse Lehrich.
Some undecided voters said they will be watching for clues during the debate for what kind of leader the candidates will be.
Margot McKee, a widowed real estate agency from West Chester, Pennsylvania, who is registered as a Republican, voted for Trump in the state’s primary in April.
Moreover, most voters oppose the hard-line approach to immigration that is the centerpiece of the billionaire businessman’s campaign. As for the genesis of that ridiculous scandal, Clintonites can blame Fox News, which certainly deserves its share of the blame, but at this level of the game, you would think Team Clinton would have factored Fox News into their calculations. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.6 points. Tim Kaine is in Houston… Clinton later said she regretted applying that description to “half” of Trump’s backers, but stuck by her assertion that “it’s deplorable” that the GOP nominee has built his campaign on “prejudice and paranoia” and given a platform to “hateful views and voices”.
Trump’s supporters are much more likely than Clinton’s to consider the threat posed by the Islamic State group to be very or extremely important to them personally, 87 per cent to 65 per cent.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate says votes for third-party candidates have been costly. He spoke in an interview with Katie Couric for Yahoo News posted online Friday.
“Even if the debate only moves a small portion of the audience, if the audience is bigger, there’s more possibility for change”, said Chris Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown.
Kaine said that “casting a vote, a protest vote for a third-party candidate that’s going to lose may well affect the outcome, and may well lead to a effect that is deeply, deeply troubling”.
Bruce Springsteen says Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a “great embarrassment” for Americans.
The Boss shared his thoughts on the Republican candidate as a guest on Swedish-Norwegian talk show “Skavlan”.
More generally, the two candidates’ supporters are about equally likely to say the USA role in world affairs is very or extremely important, 71 per cent for Clinton’s supporters to 69 per cent for Trump’s.
Commenting on Trump’s chances, he said “the absurdity is beyond cartoon-like”. But he’s gotten close enough so it can make you nervous. She’s also challenged his business success and suggested he isn’t releasing his taxes to the public because he’s not as wealthy as he contends.
That Trump will lie could be called the known unknown, to quote Donald Rumsfeld.
Trump in May unveiled a list of 11 federal and state court judges as potential replacements for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“I’d look her right in that fat ugly face of hers”, Trump says in the ad, a comment he made in 2006 about comedian Rosie O’Donnell.
“I think this will be a hard, challenging debate”, Clinton told reporters a few weeks ago. Trump and Clinton also are deeply distrusted and disliked by majorities of Americans, according to numerous polls.
“He was always a decent guy even with his marriages and everything”, said David Singer, a retiree from Simsbury, Connecticut.
Several previous ads from the Democratic presidential nominee have sought to diminish Trump by using his own words, including one in which he makes controversial comments about veterans.
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The end of the ad features a black slate with this question: “Is this the president we want for our daughters?” Today, the campaign begins airing atelevision ad in seven battleground states and on cable.
