“Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos grilled senior Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway on Friday about the president-elect spreading fake news through social media. Mook said, “It was a huge problem”. It includes campaign officials, as well as journalists and political observers, and they talk about key decisions and pivotal moments in the campaign.
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“And yesterday in Indianapolis people got a taste of what it’s going to be in a Trump-Pence administration”, she said.
Conway further said, Clinton’s advisers needed to get on board with the president-elect and move on.
“This has been long-standing US policy towards China-not to recognize Taiwan”, Cooper said as he noted no president or president-elect has spoken to the Taiwanese leader since the U.S broke relations with it in 1979.
The confrontation came as tensions between the two campaigns have yet to simmer following an unprecedented, bitter fight for the presidency that ended in Trump’s surprise victory earlier this month.
Besides, they argued, there was little they could do to change the mind of a political novice who’d just bested a primary slate of well-known Republican politicians. In addition, he called the election process rigged, and said the media was colluding with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in order to beat him.
Jennifer Palmieri (l.) said she would rather lose the election than support white supremacists. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important.
In seeking the recount, Stein has noted hackers’ probing of election targets in other states and hackers’ accessing the emails of the Democratic National Committee and several Clinton staffers. “We know the Russians were promulgating fake news through Facebook and other outlets”. “Do you think this woman [Clinton] who has nothing in common with anybody”.
Conway essentially agreed, saying Clinton was unable to hold together the Obama coalition.
“And you saw on Election Day, if you read the polls, that still many of them were upset by the way that (Sanders) was treated and that their views that they took to the table were never really assimilated into the Clinton-Kaine campaign”, she added.
Palmieri had been talking about the appeals to fear and division, the Muslim ban and – as one Clinton campaign operative put it – racially-tinged “dog whistles” used by Trump and his campaign.
Clinton’s team attributed their devastating defeat to a lot of factors – just a few self-inflicted. “We were trying to make history”.
After every presidential election since 1972, top aides from both campaigns gather at Harvard’s Institute of Politics to discuss their experience of the campaign for posterity.
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“They see Donald Trump as their standard-bearer”, Finney added, referring to the dramatic rise in hate crimes against minorities and the horrifying Nazi salute episode at an alt-right conference.
