President Obama mocked Republicans Thursday night for embracing Donald Trump at the expense of the party’s traditional family values and its long-standing tough talk about Russian Federation.
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“You think I’m joking”, Obama said. “I know that folks say this every four years, but this time it’s really true”, Obama said. “She’s got real plans to address the things she’s heard from you”. But last night, he was in Columbus where he spoke to Democrats attending the annual state party dinner.
Kondik also is author of a recently published book, “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President”, that discusses the state’s pivotal role in national elections.
The president said America is better than Trump’s remarks about women, minorities and other groups.
“Come on, man”, a grinning Obama repeated twice during a lakeside campaign rally for Hillary Clinton here on Friday.
Michelle Obama said Thursday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s boast on a 2005 tape about his fame allowing him to “do anything to women” shook her to the core.
Obama’s final-stretch push for Clinton has coincided with growing concerns among both parties that the intense toxicity of this year’s campaign could pose long-term problems for American democracy, as citizens lose faith in the well-being of their political system. Mr Obama said the U.S. has fought against those things. “… I think that the Clinton campaign is cognizant that if they win OH, this election is over”.
Obama declared Tuesday that Trump was merely the inheritor of a Republican Party already caught up in conspiracy theories and vitriol.
Trump drew a warm reception from the crowd of about 450 in downtown Columbus, who at one point broke into the anti-Hillary Clinton chant “Lock her up!”
Obama had just made a promise to work as hard as he could when, according to a White House pool reporter at the event, a man yelled, “While you’re not golfing!”
“They knew better, and they stood by silently because it was politically convenient.”
Obama said even most Republican politicians don’t believe Donald Trump is qualified to be president.
Obama said “all that bile, all that exaggeration” from Republicans had bubbled up over the years and that Trump, just like one of his skyscrapers, had “just slapped his name on it and took credit for it”.
“And that’s what’s happened in their party”.
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Obama also urged voters to focus on the optimism and resilience and the goodness and decency in the country – values they should pass on to the next generation. But this election, he said, the choice is stark.
