For much of the campaign, the Republican nominee has avoided directly challenging the first lady.
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USA presidential campaign tensions seeped into a high-profile charity dinner on Thursday as Donald Trump joked about sending Hillary Clinton to prison and she alluded to Trump’s statements about women by estimating how he might rate the Statue of Liberty’s attractiveness a four, maybe a five. He then accused her of attacking Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries. Afterward, Dolan said Trump “turned to Clinton and said, ‘You know, you are one tough and talented woman, ‘” and Dolan said Trump added, “This has been a good experience – this whole campaign – as tough as it’s been”.
But Trump drew some boos and jeers in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom when he referred to Clinton being “so corrupt” and said without apparent humor that she was appearing at the event “pretending not to hate Catholics”-a line delivered during a benefit for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of NY”.
US President Barack Obama has said Republican Donald Trump’s claims that the 2016 US presidential election is rigged is “dangerous” and corrosive for democracy.
And diving into Trump’s remark that he would not accept the result of the upcoming election if he lost, she said: “I’m surprised I’m up here at all“. And fittingly for an event named after a man nicknamed “The Happy Warrior”, the occasion has produced dozens of memorable presidential jokes – and honest moments of goodwill that have remained largely absent from the 2016 campaign. But in Manila Friday, Duterte said he would not cut ties and it was in his country’s best interest to stay with America. Later, at a campaign rally, he promised in a jesting manner that he would accept the results “if I win” as the crowd roared.
– Trump: “This is the first time Hillary is sitting down and speaking to major corporate leaders and not getting paid for it”. To which Mr Trump said he should have won the Emmy.
“They were very friendly, very uplifting, very complimentary to one another”, he told Fox News outside the event.
Trump, for his part, joked about calling Clinton a “nasty woman”.
Donald Trump speaks at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Thursday.
Hillary Clinton looks at Donald Trump during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner to benefit Catholic charities in NY, U.S. October 20, 2016. Cardinal Dolan, who sat between the two during the dinner, even joked that he was catching a cold from sitting in the chilliest place on earth.
Trump had refused to commit himself to whether he would accept the results of the 8 November general elections during the third and final presidential debate. Thank you, these are very exciting times.
“The debate last night was incredible”.
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The two candidates will spend the remaining 18 days before the election criss-crossing the USA in their bid to persuade undecided voters. On Friday, he only made a brief reference to the accusation during his speech in North Carolina, one of the battleground states where the election might be decided. There is perhaps no more important state than Florida, which accounts for a massive 29 electoral votes.
