But then, this election has reminded me of the degree to which I just don’t get some voters. I am a big believer that when it comes to media coverage in the modern fragmented era, it is NOT what is reported that really matters, but what gets repeated which carries the day. Trump, the president said, “just last week went on Russian state television to talk down our military and to curry favor with Vladimir Putin”.
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‘Can you imagine Ronald Reagan idolizing somebody like that?’ Obama said, invoking the Republican talisman.
Clinton will resume campaign travel on Thursday after a three-day break to recuperate from pneumonia, her spokesman said.
After his remarks, Obama raised money for the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising effort of Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party.
But if someone said, “All things equal Clinton should be considered a moderate to heavy favorite to win”, I think that would be right.
In this insane election, many observers (including myself) have always presumed that the news media, the once vaunted “fourth estate”, would be able, if all else failed, to prevent someone who was both completely unqualified and possibly risky to become president of the United States.
Clinton leads with young voters, according to a recent USA Today/Rock the Vote poll.
Previously, Clinton has had diagnosed with blood clots, and in 2012 while she was secretary of state a blood clot was discovered in her brain while she was suffering from a concussion. Bill Clinton’s also making a campaign stop on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Thursday – same night Donald Trump is scheduled to guest on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – as his wife gets back to work.
Suddenly, a pair of septuagenarian Democrats defending Clinton think it’s OK to body-shame Trump and mock his self-proclaimed love of Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald’s.
On Sunday, Bardack revealed Clinton was diagnosed last Friday with pneumonia – which the doctor said partly explained her early exit from the 9/11 commemoration ceremony in New York City.
“Shouldn’t you be at work?” it read. And he’s accused Clinton of starting the “birther” movement questioning President Barack Obama’s citizenship, when he was its most vocal proponent.
This question is a good indicator of how one votes: Republican Mitt Romney won 61 percent of those who expressed negative stereotypes. He claimed successes on diplomacy, health care, winding down the war in Afghanistan and reviving economy, which showed new strength Tuesday in a Census report documenting a jump in household incomes in 2015.
“We can not afford, suddenly, to treat this like a reality show”, said Mr Obama.
When asked about Clinton’s use of the term “basket of deplorables”, Earnest made clear that “it’s not the president’s phrase”.
Mr Obama’s campaign appearance was his first as a solo act on behalf of Mrs Clinton as he tried to ensure Democrats retained control of the White House once his eight years in office end in January. “You can’t stay home because, “you know, she’s been around for a long time”, he said. Instead, despite being a massive news-junkie with a connection to the story, incredibly and yet tellingly, I never even heard about it until I stumbled on it yesterday (the coverage is muted, I believe, because of “scandal” in the Clinton Foundation, as if they are the same or somehow equally bad, which they are clearly not).
Afterward, Obama was scheduled to headline a number of fundraisers in Philadelphia and NY to benefit the Democratic National Committee, which will pay the cost of the president’s campaign trip on Air Force One. About 25 attendees, who contributed $33,400 each, are expected to attend.
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Mr Obama, whose 50 per cent job approval rating could help improve the climate for the Democratic ticket in the November 8 election, rallied party faithful against Mr Trump, the 70-year-old NY real estate developer, at an outdoor event in Philadelphia.
