Donald Trump blasted Hillary Clinton Monday for allegedly being too exhausted to campaign properly.
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“I’m ready. I’m more than ready”, she said of the intense, two-month battle ahead as she attempts to become the first female USA commander in chief.
Democrats were fanning out across battleground states, dispatching Kaine and Vice President Joe Biden to Pittsburgh, former President Bill Clinton to Detroit and Cincinnati and one-time Clinton primary rival Bernie Sanders to New Hampshire.
She said Russian president Vladimir Putin appears “quite satisfied with himself” and Mr Trump “has generally parroted what is a Putin-Kremlin line”.
“I’m all about the jobs now”, he said, saying his position on the immigration issue was now well known.
Trump said at a joint news conference with Pena Nieto that they did not discuss who would pay for the wall.
Ms Clinton powered through a coughing fit at a Labour Day festival at a Cleveland park, sharply criticising Mr Trump’s recent trip to Mexico as “an embarrassing worldwide incident”. Unwilling to allow Trump to modify his immigration stances, she said his address later that night in Arizona amounted to a “doubling down on his absurd plan to send a deportation force to round up 16 million people”.
Under extensive criticism from her rival and journalists for not holding a full press conference in nine months, Clinton welcomed reporters on her plane and briefly entertained questions before taking off from NY.
Though she leads Trump in an average of polls by some four percentage points, Clinton was on the back foot again this weekend after the latest in a series of damaging revelations over her use of private email while serving as secretary of state.
“I take classification seriously”, she said.
But he told journalists Monday that only something along the lines of a “hurricane” or “natural disaster” would keep him from participating.
Trump was also expected to campaign at a fair in Youngstown, Ohio, in a nod to the state’s role as a make-or-break proving ground for Republican presidential candidates. No Republican has won the White House without carrying the state and the airport offered a vivid imagery of that crucial role.
“It’s kind of interesting to have all the planes here on the same tarmac”, Kaine said as he walked over to greet Clinton.
When asked whether some might be able to stay, Trump said: ‘It could be, but what’s going to happen is if you’re going to be a citizen, you’re going to leave and you’re going to have to come back’. “We’re gonna be here a lot”, Kaine told reporters. “I’ve seen that. So yeah, we’re doing some”, Trump told reporters.
The two candidates used the Labor Day holiday – the traditional launch of the home stretch of the presidential campaign – to push their arguments that they would be best for working class Americans.
The first presidential debate will be moderated by Holt on September 26 at Hofstra University while the second will be co-moderated by Cooper and Rabbatz in a town-hall-style forum at Washington University in St. Louis and the final debate will be moderated by Wallace at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
Clinton remained in a strong position to win the White House race, but Trump and his team cited his growing strength in opinion polls nationally and in several states where the election is likely to be chose to argue that his message is breaking through to voters.
Clinton will have millions of dollars at her disposal this fall to air television advertising and power a sophisticated get-out-the vote operation in key states.
She raised a combined $143m in August for her campaign and her party – her best month of fundraising yet. Trump also followed through with his vow to spend some $10 million on commercials in key states over the past week. News stories displayed here appear in our category for General and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.com and The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered or redistributed in any form. Doing so may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
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“I’ve seen some people do so much prep work that when they get out there, they can’t speak”.
