While Clinton spoke of optimism for his wife’s campaign, Sioux Falls resident and Hillary Clinton supporter Dan Smith is starting to worry about the rising popularity of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and the growing division within the Democratic Party.
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Trump called the endorsement a “fantastic honor” and said he would not let NRA members down.
Trump centred his remarks on Clinton, claiming she would seek to “abolish” the Second Amendment through the Supreme Court and release violent criminals if elected president.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican who heads up Trump’s group of national security advisers, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who ran against Trump in the GOP primary, argued that the appointment of a liberal justice to the Supreme Court could endanger gun rights in America.
“They try to sucker punch the rest of us into nominating people they think they can really devour if they get a hold of them”, Clinton said, in an apparent reference to Hillary Clinton’s rival, Bernie Sanders. The Clinton campaign also surpasses the Trump campaign on a staffing level, with 732 employees compared to the Trump campaign’s 70, and it has also invested significantly more in office space.
“There is no question that she is the only person that can meet all three of those tasks”, Clinton said.
Donald Trump told an annual gathering of Latino church leaders Friday that he will win the election in November and that they are “going to like President Trump”.
He went on to call her “Heartless Hillary” for backing gun restrictions.
Clinton is set to appear today in Florida with the mother of Trayvon Martin and other parents who have lost children to gun violence as part of her call to cut down on the 33,000 gun deaths in the USA each year.
Friday’s FEC filings do not reflect these moves, but they show that Mr Trump’s fundraising dipped in April, after he brought in about US$3 million and loaned himself US$11.5 million in March. “Gun owners look for somebody who protects their rights and Donald Trump is heading in that direction”. I like many of them. An allied super-political action committee has amassed $46.7 million to support her in the general election, and said donors have pledged another $45 million.
“She’s putting the most vulnerable Americans in jeopardy”, Mr Trump said. Even though she has an all but insurmountable lead in delegates, Sanders beat Clinton in fundraising for a fourth consecutive month in April, collecting $26.9 million.
“As Democrats, our job is to come together and say, ‘We’re about the future, not the past, ‘” Clinton said.
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“I think that Trump as the nominee is an advantage for our party, but not almost the advantage that some people had thought and hoped it would be”, said Alderman, now with Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies.
