“This isn’t just a wacky guy saying something wacky”, Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Mike Pence of IN, however, followed Trump’s lead by pressing a new untrue statement – that the birther debate could be traced to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign. Obama won 85 percent of the vote in Philadelphia in 2012, and Clinton has her sights set on coming as close as she can to his performance there while also outperforming Obama in the four suburban counties bordering the city.
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ABC’s Martha Raddatz pointed out that as recently as last Wednesday, Trump had not been willing to say Obama was born in the U.S. Overall, ABC counted 67 tweets and retweets from Trump questioning where the president was born, she said.
He also declared birtherism “over” and denied Trump has any responsibility it. Mr. Trump made the charge Friday that the Clinton operation bears responsibility and conceded that the president was, in fact, a natural-born American citizen. The truth is that the birther movement was started in 2008 by a Democrat who supported Mrs. Clinton and opposed Mr. Obama; a link to Mrs. Clinton or her campaign has never been proven.
“When I ran against John McCain, we had deep differences, but I couldn’t say that he was not qualified to be president of the United States”, Obama said of his 2008 opponent.
Those visits were all small-scale campaign events, not one of the signature blockbuster rallies that make for Trump’s chief organizing tool.
The Donald Trump campaign fanned out across the television airwaves on Sunday morning, insisting the “birther” issue was put to rest long before the Republican nominee publicly admitted President Obama was born in the United States. And No. 3, he said that “President Obama was born in this country, period'”. The Clinton campaign also widely circulated editorials from papers in North Carolina and Pennsylvania critical of the latest episode with Trump. “It’s a reality show”, Obama said of the Trump campaign.
“Today we’ve opened the doors of opportunity and our economy is in the top 10 and people who fought in every step of the way have realized, ‘Wait a minute, we’re better when we let everybody around the table, we’re actually a stronger, ‘ ” Kaine said. “It matters”, he said during a speech at the annual Congressional Black Caucus gala Saturday night. “I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election”. “I need you to work as hard for Hillary as you did for me”.
Sollis Doyle, in an interview on CNN, said a volunteer coordinator had forwarded an email promoting the birther conspiracy.
Trump “just wouldn’t give up on it”, he said.
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About 76 percent of Clinton voters think Trump is fooling those voting for him, while 83 percent of Trump supporters believe Clinton is hoodwinking her voters.
