“Hillary Clinton’s attempt to delete the single worst week of her political career isn’t going to work”, Miller proclaimed.
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Republican opponent Donald Trump has accused Clinton of improperly using her former position as secretary of state to bring in big contributions to the foundation from people and corporations seeking access. New Yorker columnist John Cassidy argues that the charity should continue its good works, but to do so without an appearance of impropriety, it must shed all connections to the Clintons and their inner circle.
Among likely voters, she leads Republican rival NY businessman Donald Trump by 12, her strongest showing this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on August 23.
In that speech, she accused Trump of unleashing a “radical fringe” within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists. At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color, and in MS on Wednesday he went so far as to label Clinton “a bigot”.
At her rally in Reno, Clinton charged that Trump has essentially embraced the ideas of the so-called “alt-right”, an amorphous movement closely tied with white nationalism that has been criticized as racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic.
Polls give Clinton a wide margin over Trump among Hispanic voters, but he is on a pitch to reduce her advantage by stressing he would create jobs for all.
Questions have also surfaced again about her use of a private email server and address rather than a government one during her period at the State Department.
A USA judge ordered the State Department on Thursday to release by September 13 any emails it finds between Hillary Clinton and the White House from the week of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, among the thousands of additional emails uncovered by federal investigators. She’s going to do nothing for the Hispanics.
Clinton is eager to capitalize on Trump’s slipping poll numbers, particularly among moderate Republican women turned off by his controversial campaign.
She said Friday that candidates can reasonably disagree on how to run the country, “but that’s not the campaign that Donald Trump has been running, and I am reaching out and asking fair-minded Americans to repudiate this kind of divisive demagoguery”.
Clinton, meanwhile, followed up on Thursday’s tough speech by saying that Trump’s temperament and divisiveness made him unfit for the White House. “Hillary Clinton is going to try and accuse this campaign and all of you and the millions of decent Americans … of being racists, which we’re not”.
The article implied that her meetings with figures like Melinda Gates and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus were “somehow due to connections with the foundation instead of their status as highly respected global leaders”, Ms. Clinton said. “I want you to hear these words, and remember these words: Shame on you”.
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Reporters, including myself, have sometimes written about Trump’s attitudes toward racial and religious minorities as a separate problem from his willingness to imply that Ted Cruz’s father helped assassinate JFK. “They’ve been very disrespectful, as far as I’m concerned, to the African-American population in this country”, Trump said.
