Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over national security again on Friday, with Trump calling his Democratic rival “trigger-happy” and Clinton arguing his proposals would make the world a more unsafe place.
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There are a few problems with this, aside from the glaringly obvious fact that Trump says worse than this while he’s ordering a Denver omelet every morning, chief among them that Hunt is judging Hillary’s statement based on a false metric (she said about “half” of Trump’s supporters, which would be about 23% in national polls, not “close to 50%”), and that she’s testing the statement based on people she’s spoken to herself.
“Just when Hillary Clinton said she was going to start running a positive campaign, she ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in statement.
A new Hillary Clinton ad is turning to Republicans to make the case that Donald Trump is unfit for the Oval Office. “And he has lifted them up”, she added. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”, he added. Trump said in a tweet. “He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric”.
Clinton also told the crowd at the “LGBT for Hillary” gala that other Trump supporters are people who feel let down by the government and the economy, and are “desperate for change”. “It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from”.
Clinton has not let the media into many private fundraisers, but press was allowed in to hear her remarks Friday. At a rally in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, he said Mrs Clinton is “so protected” that “she could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching, right smack in the middle of the heart”.
But many voters have already decided anyway, said Jamal Simmons, a Democratic consultant.
It could prove a stumble for a seasoned – and polarising – politician who wants to lead a country that includes many who have embraced Mr Trump’s exhortations to “lock her up”.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill noted a previous speech in which she accused Trump of embracing a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism known as the “alt right” movement.
“Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump”, Merrill tweeted, adding, “And their supporters appear to make up half his crowd when you observe the tone of his events”.
Weeks before the 2012 election, Republican Mitt Romney landed in hot water for saying that 47% of the public would vote for President Barack Obama “no matter what” because they depended on government benefits and his job was “not to worry about those people”.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, then-Sen. Tickets, targeted at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender supporters, ranged from $1,200 for a standard seat to $250,000 or more to be listed as a host.
During a spirted speech focused on the LGBT community, Clinton also made a joke that referenced conversion therapy, type of counseling created to urge gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender children to change their sexual orientation.
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Barbra Streisand headlined the entertainment, riffing with a parody of “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim. The campaign later said it did not realize Trump’s conversation with Larry King would air on RT, and that they would not have agreed to the interview had they known.
