Putin has offered kind words for Trump in the past as well.
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But the Clinton campaign acknowledged she had to spend more time focussing her remarks on herself so voters could see the “aspirational” vision she hopes to enact if she becomes the first woman elected USA president.
The discussion followed a Wednesday night national security forum.
With the first debate scheduled for later this month, Clinton’s campaign is trying to ensure that Trump is positioned for a tough evaluation, recognizing that expectations can matter even more than actual performance.
If Clinton can significantly outperform Obama among Latinos in Florida, that could give her a key edge in what is looking to be a tight-and critical-race in the Sunshine State.
“Even if Lauer had been simply listening to [Trump’s] response and had the the memory of an earthworm”, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik said Thursday, “he would’ve heard Trump say, look, you could go back to an article in 2004 in Esquire where I was against it”. And, as with his past provocations, Trump once again left his fellow Republicans scrambling to defend what many effectively conceded was indefensible. USA officials blame Russian government-backed hackers for pulling off the intrusion, which embarrassed Democrats and led to the resignation of the DNC chair. “Nobody said it was going to be on Russian TV”.
Clinton does not speak frequently about her faith, although she discussed its importance to her in a televised town hall event in February during her battle with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. RT, which airs in several countries in English and Russian, is funded by the Russian government; though it characterizes itself as independent, the network has been regularly accused of pro-Kremlin bias. PolitiFact found that 173 of Trump’s statements Wednesday night missed the truth.
It is all rather confounding – unless Trump is simply eyeing postelection business interests – for congressional Republicans, who evince little doubt that Moscow was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. “He’s a unsafe and bad guy”.
Overall, Trump has an eight point advantage with whites (50/42) while Clinton has a sixty point lead with nonwhites (75/15).
Mr Trump appears to be gaining ground. I never got to say goodbye, I don’t know why I stopped so abruptly.
In a Facebook post published on the page Humans of NY on Thursday, Clinton recounted taking a law school admissions test at Harvard University in 1969 and being harassed by male students. “Some days it’s really hard for me”, she said to laughter. “Can you imagine somebody running for president who has acknowledged publicly that he likes Putin better than Obama? I’m proud to support Secretary Clinton”.
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“Well I think when he called me brilliant, I’ll take the compliment, OK?”
