“This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans’ pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests”, Clinton said in a statement posted Friday morning on Twitter. Clinton took another jab at the GOP by noting that twice Republican presidents have caused an economic “mess” and “a Democratic president has had to come in and clean it up”. Because many of those allegations were first revealed in journalist Peter Schweizer’s latest book, “Clinton Cash”, Trump’s critics also tried to discredit Schweizer himself and all his research.
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Clinton’s two economic speeches this week, taken together, are meant to demonstrate that she and Trump would be starkly different economic leaders.
A RealClearPolitics polling average shows Clinton leading Trump 45 percent to 39 percent.
This fact was becoming a source of tension among Republican donors who were anxious that the money they gave to the Trump campaign would end up going into the billionaire’s own pockets. “So that is a contribution”, Steve Mnuchin said.
And in Thursday’s statement, his campaign argued that Trump’s fundraising efforts have only just begun to flourish.
Mr Mnuchin added that Mr Trump had raised about US$10 million in conjunction with the Republican Party at fund-raising events this week, along with another US$6 million through online donations to his joint fundraising account with the party. The total loan amounted to $46.1 million by the end of May 31, according to the most recent financial records available.
Top aides to Hillary Clinton slammed what they called Donald Trump’s self-interested response to Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, calling it the latest sign he is unfit to serve as commander-in-chief.
“It’s not working in the United States for everybody and it’s not working in the U.K. for everybody”, Sanders said.
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But that low number is more an indication of the fact that he largely self-funded his primary campaign and spent little on TV ads, relying instead on earned media.
