Trump, who for years advanced the notion that Obama was not born in the United States, sought to put the issue behind him this week by acknowledging the president’s citizenship – but instead reignited a firestorm by falsely claiming that Clinton sparked the controversy in 2008. “I have sat at that table in the Situation Room”.
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Pence doubled down, arguing that Hillary Clinton’s “defenders in the national media” were attempting to “distract attention from her dishonest and her disastrous record on the foreign stage”.
Hillary Clinton today acknowledged that the threat of terrorism in the nation was “real” but argued that entire communities should not be profiled in the wake of this weekend’s attacks in NY and New Jersey.
Authorities arrested 28-year-old Ahmad Rahami on Monday in connection with a series of bombs planted in NY and New Jersey over the last three days.
Clinton’s campaign is planning to leverage both the president’s and the first lady’s popularity “as much as possible in the coming weeks”, especially in Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina, according to the Times. Trump was expected to cancel a fundraiser and a town hall meeting in Florida on Monday.
Trump made the comments around 9:10 p.m., shortly after the explosion in Manhattan’s crowded Chelsea neighborhood and as emergency officials were responding to the blast. That was before authorities had publicly said so.
Half of Republicans said Trump was the party’s best pick, while 55 per cent of Democrats said the same of Clinton, Politico noted.
“I’ve seen that transition work in my state from fighting against equality, fighting against inclusion to embracing it and being stronger as a result”, Kaine said, echoing Clinton’s “stronger together” campaign-trail theme. We really like him. The Republican has said he would bar immigration from nations with ties to terrorism.
They should repudiate Clinton if they value integrity, character and honor.
“We’ve got to get people to vote”, Obama said.
Clinton and her team sees her foreign policy expertise as a key selling point for her candidacy.
But the president didn’t mince words when it came to uniting African-Americans behind his former secretary of state.
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It was Clinton’s second appearance at Temple University this summer. Her campaign acknowledges they need to do more to get millennials on board.
