(“Unlike every Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan, Trump has refused to release his tax returns, prompting Democrats – including Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton – to question what he is “hiding.'”) It surely does stick in voters’ craw and reinforce worries about his actual business skill, his penchant for ludicrous puffery and the actual level of his charitable giving”. “I’ll tell you what I’m going to do”.
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Trump acknowledged in a statement that he’s “made a lot of money in down markets”.
Clinton’s remarks followed her campaign’s release of a video on Tuesday featuring an audio clip of Trump, in 2006, saying he “sort of” hoped for a housing bubble burst because “people like me would go in and buy”.
Good morning, and welcome to the Guardian’s politics liveblog, where we’re expecting an escalation of hostilities between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the presumptive and likely nominees for the Republican and Democratic parties, after Trump doubled down on his decision to make Clinton’s marriage a target of his latest attack ad.
Opinion polls in key states show Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, and Trump are in a tight race ahead of the November 8 USA presidential election.
Clinton’s campaign and her surrogates have seized on the recording to argue that she would take better care of the US economy.
Trump did not directly respond to Warren’s comments on Tuesday, but he called her a “total failure” as a USA senator during the rally. Clinton is seeking to blunt the inroads that Trump has been making with voters in crucial states such as Florida and Ohio.
A mid-level executive in Salt Lake City told me he didn’t agree with Trump on everything but supported him because “the guy is the real thing”.
“You don’t make America great by rooting for its economy to fail”, Ryan said in a statement. “Seriously, someone ask him”. (Trump has since said that his controversial plan to ban most Muslims from entering the U.S.is “just a suggestion.”) She warned that these policies will only backfire.
Clinton holds a substantial lead with party leaders and elected officials, called superdelegates, and is on track to clinch the nomination through the combination of pledged delegates and superdelegates after contests in California, New Jersey and four other states on June 7.
As she has for weeks, Clinton avoided all mention of primary challenger Bernie Sanders, even as both campaigned in California ahead of the state’s June 7 primary. But because one final pledge delegate is awarded to the victor of the popular vote in one particular county, the Sanders’ campaign’s call for a review of the final vote totals might net his campaign one more additional delegate than Clinton received from Kentucky.
Fox News host Sean Hannity -a longtime critic of the Clintons – interviewed three women on Monday who have accused the former president of sexual misconduct. Sanders said her refusal was an insult to California voters.
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For Independents, about 52 percent would vote for Sanders over Trump, while 37 percent-falling behind Trump by 2 percent-would vote for Clinton.
