With third party candidates taken into account, Trump would lead Clinton 37 percent to 36 percent in Iowa.
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-ANALYSIS – ABC’s RICK KLEIN: “Certainly I want to do the debates”, Donald Trump told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Wednesday.
Trump has long blamed Obama and his former secretary of state – Clinton – for their Mideast policy.
“If the Donald wanted someone dead, he would have just said it, top Trump backer Rudy Giuliani claimed”, the New York Daily News writes. As he shifted the blame to Obama on Wednesday, he said “crooked Hillary Clinton” was actually the group’s co-founder. “Donald Trump, the Republican Party, all of you – we’re going to put him in the White House and save this country together!”
Here are their differing speeches on Detroit – Trump’s address Monday to the Detroit Economic Club and Clinton’s rebuttal Thursday just outside of Detroit in Warren, Mich.
Clinton aides say she’s taking nothing for granted, noting the USA remains a deeply politically divided country.
“He was the founder, absolutely the founder”, Trump said on CNBC.
Hillary Clinton will lay out her economic agenda on Thursday, touting her plan for tuition-free college and infrastructure spending in a sharp rebuttal to Donald Trump’s speech on the economy earlier this week. He then said there was no way people would be able to stop a President Clinton from stacking the Supreme Court with anti-gun justices, before adding, “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is – I don’t know”.
The candidate dismisses such criticism as the views of “the failed Washington elite” who he says were responsible for the rise of the so-called Islamic State. His appeal to “Second Amendment people” is the kind of claim you might hear from a failing candidate in an underdeveloped nation prone to coups.
This is a message that resonates with the hardline base of the gun lobby and the National Rifle Association, which last month had a representative speak from the stage of a Republican National Convention for the first time. “Americanism, not globalism, will be our new credo”, he declares.
Clinton delivered an economic speech from the factory floor of Futuramic, an aerospace company here outside Detroit, the struggling home of American manufacturing, laying into Donald Trump’s resistance to global trade deals as an approach “based on fear, not strength” and a cornerstone of the “America First” doctrine that she said would only “cut ourselves off from the world”.
It is a nativist vision but there is a constituency for the loose idea of “making America great again”. “Her only competition is Barack Obama”, he said.
The question for the rest of us… is whether we believe the Presidency itself is ready for a similar devolution.
The Democratic nominee isn’t expected to use her speech to come out with any major new policies.
And while they wait there are endless replays of his comments about minorities, women, war heroes and disabled people.
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“Let’s call it the ‘Trump Loophole, ‘” Clinton told voters here Thursday. A mostly urban, highly educated and high-income globalized elite often shares more cultural and political affinities with their counterparts on the other side of the aisle than they do with the lower-middle and working classes of their own parties.
