After saying it would not endorse Donald Trump in this year’s election, the Dallas Morning News editorial board went one step further on Wednesday, backing the Democratic presidential nominee for the first time in more than 75 years.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has lost ground in the voter surveys released at the start of the campaign’s final stretch, but her Republican rival, Donald Trump, is encountering serious difficulties garnering support and may even lose formerly unassailable conservative bastions like Texas. Mudslinging is to be expected when you have two candidates with as much baggage as Clinton and Trump, but the sheer volume of this negative campaigning is enough to wear anyone down who pays much attention to it.
Clinton cited Trump’s feud with the family of the late Capt. Humayun Khan, a Purple Heart recipient who was killed in Iraq in 2004, and called the Manhattan billionaire “a danger and a risk”, vowing that as president she will “protect our country and our troops”.
The newspaper’s formal endorsement of the former secretary of state comes a day after it published an editorial saying it would not back Trump in 2016, ending a streak of endorsing every Republican presidential nominee since 1968.
Kaine lambasted Trump during a national security speech in North Carolina, criticizing his business dealings with Russia, the ties between some of his campaign advisers to the country and Trump’s suggestion that he hoped Russian hackers could find missing emails from when Clinton was secretary of state.
“He is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president”, she said.
Yet perhaps most striking is how low Clinton and Trump’s numbers are in some states with just two months left in the race.
The appearances mark an intense, two-day focus on national security by Trump, who has offered tough rhetoric on the nation’s challenges overseas but few details.
There’s broad consensus on a bill to allow those immigrants working in the U.S. illegally, who have been in the country for some time, speak English and are willing to pay back taxes, to remain in the country and eventually apply for citizenship (88 percent favor such a plan). “That means giving the Pentagon the stable, predictable funding it needs to make smart investments”, she said last week at the American Legion in Cincinnati.
Kaine was saying Trump tells voters he was opposed to the Iraq War even though he expressed support for it leading up to the US invasion. Clinton, the Democrat, is campaigning in Florida in search of an advantage in the nation’s largest swing state. Among respondents the pollsters deemed “likely voters” that was true: the poll showed Trump at forty-four per cent, and Clinton at forty-two per cent.
Trump is looking to exploit Republicans in North Carolina, where the GOP dominates at the congressional and state level.
A statement from the campaign Tuesday said the introduction, entitled “Love and Kindness – And Action” details Clinton’s upbringing and the things “she learned from her mother’s hard childhood”.
It says a lot about this race that, on both sides, the most prominent campaign commercials have all been attack ads.
For Clinton, the demographics of the electorate work in her favor, and she appears to be reassembling the Obama coalition that was decisive in the 2008 and 2012 elections.
Earlier, she told ABC News that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, should not have to step down before the election from his position at the Clinton Foundation.
Loudon also took umbrage at Trump’s comment he “always wanted a Purple Heart – this was a lot easier” when a veteran at an OH rally presented him with a replica of the award.
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Instead, he says Kasich’s team has been putting most of its efforts into reelecting Sen.
