Trump is also expected to campaign at a fair in Canfield in suburban Youngstown.
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When asked what could stop him from attending, the Republican nominee joked, “Hurricanes, natural disaster”.
Clinton’s supporters are more confident in her chances than Trump supporters are of his; 84 percent of people who say they will vote for Clinton think she will win the debate, compared with 69 percent of Trump supporters who think he’ll be the victor. “I’ve been just waiting for this moment”, said Clinton, perhaps in gentle jest, to three dozen media members in the back of her plane.
The first debate between Clinton and Trump is scheduled for September 26.
Setting the stage for a critical month in a testy presidential campaign, Donald Trump has softened his stance on immigration while Hillary Clinton blasted Russian Federation for its suspected tampering in the United States electoral process. “Jobs is the whole deal”.
Trump softened his language on immigration when pressed by reporters.
Trump noted that Obama couldn’t use his traditional staircase to exit Air Force One when he arrived in China over the weekend.
“I did them with the other, you know, the other cases”.
Trump also taunted Obama on social media about a hard meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 summit.
The Republican nominee had visited the neighboring nation for what he and President Enrique Peña Nieto described initially as a friendly conversation. Jeff Flake of Arizona. Plus, Trump refers to CNN as the Clinton News Network.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Hillary Clinton on Monday interrupted her stump speech involuntarily in a coughing spell – and wryly blamed the incident on GOP rival Donald Trump. Raddatz held Trump’s first interview after saying Senator John McCain was not a war hero.
The Labor Day holiday traditionally kicks off the last stretch of campaigning ahead of the November 8 election. Clinton also has a 5-point lead on average when third party candidates are included in the poll questions. Clinton is leading Trump by a significant margin in many battleground states, with leads of between 6 and 9 points in Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Florida and North Carolina, like OH, are critical battlegrounds in the 2016 race.
Mr Clinton told a crowd of union workers at the UAW’s Labour Day picnic in Detroit that Mr Trump’s economic policies have been tried before – cutting taxes on the rich, doubling the national debt and loosening financial industry regulations. “I look forward to the debates”, he said.
Clinton supporters, meanwhile, fanned out across the country on the Monday holiday.
“We’re going to make that decision into the future”, he said. “We are talking about which candidate will better represent the needs of the American people”.
The Washington Post said the NY businessman paid the Internal Revenue Service a $US2,500 penalty this year after it was revealed that his foundation had violated tax laws by giving a political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, who has endorsed Trump.
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“This is like Watergate only now in cyber time”, Clinton said, echoing a comment Tim Kaine, her vice presidential nominee, made.
