Last week’s poll showed both candidates tied with 42 percent following the Republican National Convention.
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A giddy if exhausted Hillary Clinton embarked on a post-convention Rust Belt bus tour just hours after becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major political party.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there”. “I’m taking the gloves off”, he said.
A few thousand people stood in the blazing hot sun for more than three hours to hear Clinton and her new Vice Presidential pick, Virginia Sen.
“I can’t think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime”, Clinton told supporters at the rally in Philadelphia. Their goal is to turn out the coalition of minority, female and young voters that twice elected Obama while blunting some of the expected losses among the white men drawn to Trump’s message.
In a written statement, Trump said Clinton was not being fully truthful about creating jobs and increasing national security.
“I’m not telling you that everything is peachy keen – I’m telling you we’ve made progress, but we have work to do”. Khan criticized Trump on the last night of the Democratic convention, and Trump has been firing back ever since.
When asked about the mother of a State Department official killed in Benghazi, Libya, who blamed Hillary Clinton for her son’s death, Clinton told “Fox News Sunday” that her “heart goes out” to the families and that she didn’t “hold any ill feeling for someone” who has lost a child and recalls events differently.
Romell Short of Washington, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, said he has no problem with veterans’ families being politically active and speaking about their experiences.
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“‘He’s not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief”, she said.
