Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump National Doral, Wednesday, July 27, 2016, in Doral, Fla. Her favorability numbers are back up to -6% (she was as low as -15% last month) while Trump remains at -22%, almost the same as last month.
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In fairness, Hillary is only doing what she knows best.
“I think Donald Trump poses a serious threat to our democracy, and it’s going to be up to all of us to repudiate the hatefulness”, she added. “And they should set off alarm bells for all of us”.
Trump escalated the controversy by seemingly calling on Russian Federation to hack into Clinton’s emails when she was secretary of state.
“Democrats”, she declared, “are the party of working people”. During the tour, they said in the first 100 days in office, they would announce to make the largest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II. In the hour before Clinton spoke, Barber gave a stirring stem-winder of a sermon that ended with the whole convention shouting “Alleluia!”
On factory floors and in school gymnasiums, Clinton pitched her economic vision to union members, teachers and assembly line workers, most of whom described themselves as part of the lower and middle classes.
“I just want people as we go into this election to be fair”. “None of us can do it alone. Together, we should pray for his family”.
That the nation is divided is hardly a revelation. Clinton’s instinctive caution makes her look like a status-quo candidate – and this is not a status-quo election. And just as with our founders, there are no guarantees. “We have to decide whether we’re going to work together so we can all rise together”.
If you were a unionized government employee, a “green energy” investor, a Silicon Valley tech mogul or the recipient of an Obamaphone or other government handout Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech was a much anticipated reassurance that nothing would change and that the vast wealth transfer that over the past eight years has moved trillions of dollars from the private economy to the public economy “would continue unabated”. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, faulting him for criticizing the president.
And she pledged to live up to the hopes that inspired their engagement.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”, Clinton said in her convention speech on Thursday. “Wall Street can never ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again”, Clinton said.
For a woman burdened by a reputation for being opaque, and facing a freewheeling foe, Clinton’s plodding speeches and avoidance of spontaneity compound her troubles.
When they arrived at East High School in Youngstown on Saturday night, more than two hours behind schedule for their for their last stop of the day, one man stood on the risers behind the stage holding up a red sign that read: “Republican for Hillary”.
Her style was very different from Obama’s. She roved among platitudes, denunciations of Trump, biography, policies, a call-and-response chant and even a mention of the musical “Hamilton”. This is a big reason that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination.
You would be happy to vote for the Hillary Clinton of the early 2000s, who talked a lot about border security and workplace enforcement.
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In the primaries, Trump’s opponents were fearful of attacking him until it was too late. She’s steady and ready – a workhorse not a show horse. She embraced her persona as someone who proudly sweated policy details.
