Kaine was joined on stage his wife, Anne Holton, and Clinton by her husband, former President Bill Clinton. And she took a dig at her GOP rival, saying Donald Trump “doesn’t make anything in America except bankruptcies”. Bill Clinton plans to do the same, heading into white rural counties across America in September, bracing against fierce headwinds over NAFTA to try to persuade a former constituency to return to the fold.
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On the heels of the Democratic National Convention and with just over 100 days until the general election, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine kicked off a campaign swing Friday that will take them through economically struggling regions of Pennsylvania and OH, which GOP rival Donald Trump has put at the top of his target list of swing states. She pummeled Obama in the primary contests in states like Pennsylvania and OH and Kentucky with large rural populations by winning white men. “It’s gonna be a great combination of our great politicians, but also great American businessmen and women and leaders across industry and leaders across really all the sectors, from athletes to coaches and everything in between”.
Donald Trump said he did not produce the Republican National Convention but just “showed up for the final speech”, distancing himself from how he previously characterized his relationship to the event.
Monday night’s DNC speeches were seen by 26 million viewers across seven channels, versus 23 million for night one of the RNC.
The timing of the interview is not insignificant.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Friday that the campaign would evaluate its policy and added that events would be “available to the media, whether they’re fair or unfair”.
In Philadelphia, President Barack Obama – who gave one of the longest speeches of the Democratic National Convention – mentioned Clinton 28 times.
And the candidate wants to push that message with the interview. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, Clinton said of Trump. Fox News, the Republican-leaning cable news operation, declined to air the speech.
The line was not a one-off olive branch to Republicans, either.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to the crowd as he speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, July 27, 2016, in Toledo, Ohio.
“I got the biggest bump”, he said.
On Thursday, Michael Bloomberg, the former Republican mayor of NY, spoke to the Democratic audience and received a positive reaction.
Real Clear Politics, after averaging the last eight election survey results since July 24, has found that both Clinton and Trump are in a dead heat with 44.3 percent support each.
That’s a reversal from 2012, when Trump praised Bloomberg for reducing crime in New York City, declaring, “That’s leadership”. Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen.
“His speech and his whole convention seemed to be more about insulting me than helping the American people”, she said of Trump, gliding over the fact that the Democratic convention was almost as anti-Trump as his was anti-Clinton.
“The most important thing is there is a bias for change and there’s an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll where people express that bias even when they don’t know what the change is going to be”, Garin said.
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Clinton came into the convention facing deep voter concerns with her honesty and trustworthiness, stemming in part from her controversial use of a private internet server at the State Department.
