Clinton was speaking at a fundraiser in NY state, at the Hamptons home of Charles Phillips, chief executive of the software company Infor, and wife Karen.
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“I am not taking anything, anyone or any place for granted”.
Arguing Trump has hurt the country, Clinton said she would need to “repair the damage that has been done”. Maybe he’ll try to be presidential.
Clinton has headlined 33 fundraisers in August, all of which have been closed to the press. Of that figure, more than half will be tuning into the election for the first time, “so don’t assume they have followed everything”, Clinton said. But Trump’s stand-ins struggled to do so even as they stayed tightly together on the details they know: Trump will issue more details on the immigration plan soon, the policy will be humane, and despite his clear wavering, he’s been “consistent” on the issue. “But there will be a lot of new impressions to be made that night”. Trump met with aides over the weekend to discuss strategy about the events, while Clinton, aides have said, is just starting the process by reading briefing books and discussing strategy with her tight group of advisers. She is stressing the need to fully integrate mental health services into the US health care system. Earlier in the campaign, Trump had called for a “deportation force” to remove undocumented immigrants as well as the construction of a border wall between the USA and Mexico, a policy that has been central to his remarks on the trail.
Clinton also noted that David Duke, the white supremacist who is running for U.S. Senate from Louisiana, has endorsed Trump and “he is the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan”.
It was a striking look at Trump’s leadership of a team he had said would help drive him to victory against Democrat Hillary Clinton. “And what we have got to do is stand up”.
Former President Bill Clinton joined his wife, the Democratic nominee, at the fundraiser.
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Now for some startling opinions about race relations and the current leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump.
