“We will prevail”, Clinton said, adopting a subdued tone more often shown at the White House instead of the campaign trail. During a campaign stop last week at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Mrs. Obama shared her own frustration about voters who can’t seem to muster the same enthusiasm for Clinton as they did for her husband.
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Clinton, meanwhile, is still facing questions about her health and openness after a video caught her staggering after abruptly leaving a 9/11 ceremony. Black voters also overwhelmingly back Clinton, 82 percent to 4 percent.
She previewed the likely thrust of her remarks last week in North Carolina in a more personal, emotive stump speech that she retooled while laid up with pneumonia.
“When you look at a series of these comments that he’s making, I do believe it is an incite or at a minimum an expression of indifference to whether violence would occur”, he said.
“It’s on our shoulders to make the case”. In Florida, Trump keeps his hopes alive with white voters, both college educated and not – he leads 51 percent to Clinton’s 30 percent.
Clinton’s need to improve her standing among young voters has become apparent in recent polling. A Quinnipiac University poll this month found that Clinton was backed by 31% of voters aged 18-34 while 29% favored Trump. But 44% of that group said they would vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson or Green Party leader Jill Stein. She insinuated that Islamic militants, particularly those affiliated with ISIS, are rooting for Trump to win the White House.
According to a Fox News poll published prior to the weekend, 46 percent of voters have more confidence in Clinton regarding questions of terrorism and national security, versus 45 percent who prefer Trump.
While the former secretary of state has work to do to electrify the Democratic coalition, she could not have better allies.
She cited her experience in the Obama administration as proof that she was the candidate best suited to fight terrorism. They are sending out popular surrogates like President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Sen.
Republican Trump, who has made anxieties over security a cornerstone of his platform, lost no time in jumping on the latest events, speculating they could signal “a big change” with more attacks in the offing.
However, transferring support from one candidate to another is not just a simple matter of passing the baton. His efforts to boost Democrats in mid-term elections in 2010 and 2014 had little effect, and his record on picking winners in off-year races is also patchy. It’s left the impression that his is a uniquely “Obama” coalition that can not be easily bequeathed to a successor.
“My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot”, Obama said in Saturday’s address.
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“We’re going after the bad guys and we’re going to get them but we’re not going to go after an entire religion, and give ISIS exactly what its wanting in order for them to enhance their position”, she said. “You want to give me a good sendoff?” But in a one-on-one battle with Clinton, it can add up to a character questions with three debates and mere weeks to go before the November 8 elections. Trump and his allies spent Sunday – repeatedly and falsely – accusing Clinton of pushing the idea that President Barack Obama was not born in the US – a conspiracy theory long championed by Trump himself.
