“Mike Barnicle said the Democrats” “convention this week was much more a reflection of America, the America that we all live in, than was last week in Cleveland”. Stars like Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz and Paul Simon performed for the Democrats, and President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton showed off their oratorical skills.
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Later this afternoon, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Colorado springs. “Lock her up! Lock her up!”
Both Trump and Clinton should recognize that if they continue to fail to impress, then Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson could gain the polling percentages necessary to qualify for the debates.
In a forceful flourish that capped her half-hour of remarks, Clinton pledged to respond on behalf of those whom Trump has derided – with the exception of herself, she said, because she had grown “pretty thick-skinned”.
Senator Bernie Sanders, whose role in bridging the divide between his supporters and the Clinton camp was lauded at the DNC, has played an important role in attracting Indian Americans. Clinton’s margin in the area could slip to 500,000, and she would still easily win the state, Plouffe said.
Trump said he was depicting the reporter groveling to him.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, Clinton said as one of many swipes at Trump on Thursday – a tactic surely will be one of the main thrusts of her campaign going forward.
Trump must prove that his claims that “I alone” can fix what ails America aren’t the words of a snake-oil salesman who doesn’t know his own limits – or the government’s constitutional ones.
Trump is also focusing on OH and Pennsylvania, as states where he might make headway with blue-collar white men. That group of voters has eluded Clinton and may be a hard sell after a Democratic convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity. “Let me ask you”, he said in essence to Trump, “have you even read the United States Constitution?”
Trump calls his approach “America first”, meaning alliances and coalitions would not pass muster with him unless they produced a net benefit to the US He drew rebukes from much of the national security establishment when he suggested in a recent newspaper interview that as president he might not defend certain North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member countries against outside attack if they were falling short of the alliance’s defence spending targets. Democrats hammered home those themes this week with an array of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers and activists of all races and sexual orientation.
Their goal is to turn out the coalition of minority, female and young voters that twice elected Obama while offsetting expected losses among the white men drawn to Trump’s message. Kaine told CNN on Friday that he still supports the Hyde Amendment, a ban on federal funding for abortion that Clinton wants to end.
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“I’m not telling you that everything is peachy keen – I’m telling you we’ve made progress, but we have work to do”.
