Obama’s remarks came at a time when polls have shown the race between Clinton and Trump tightening and amid concerns among Democrats that African-American turnout will not match what it was under Obama’s historic 2008 and 2012 elections.
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He also looped back to Trump’s fearmongering of black voters, and his infamous plea for their votes by asking, “What the hell do you have to lose?” But in a one-on-one battle with Clinton, it can add up to a character questions with three debates and mere weeks to go before the November 8 elections.
Trump must have “missed that whole civics lesson about slavery and Jim Crow”, Obama said.
Clinton made the remarks at a NY fundraising event September 9 where she said about “half of Trump supporters” could be put “into what I call the basket of deplorables”.
Within minutes, the Clinton campaign condemned the remark. Clinton was also sidelined last week after her near collapse at the 9/11 memorial and her belated public disclosure she had pneumonia.
When she was asked why Trump spent five years pushing this conspiracy theory about the president, Conway responded, “Well, you’re going to have to ask him”. “I don’t think so”. Take their – and let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away.
Contrary to Trump’s claim, Clinton has no policy on the confiscation of firearms ― nor has she ever called for it ― a point that Kaine made on Sunday.
Pence added,”That’s absolute nonsense”. In fact, Clinton has not challenged the constitutional right to bear arms, despite calling for some stronger gun control measures. The issues, he said, are climate science, women’s health, LGBT equality, immigration and college affordability.
But Trump’s high-profile supporters weren’t focused on issues.
Obama joked about Trump’s admission in a speech Saturday night: “In other breaking news, the world is round, not flat”, he said. Neither the White House nor Clinton’s team has said when and where the president will travel next to argue the case for Clinton, but Obama is expected to spend the bulk of October on the road campaigning for her.
“We need ideas, not insults, real plans to help struggling Americans in communities that have been left out and left behind, not prejudice and paranoia”, she said.
RADDATZ [Talking over Pence]: You believe that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement?
“No, Jake. It wasn’t like he was talking about it on a regular basis”.
Trump had called for the president to release his birth certificate in March 2011, saying “there’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like”. “We’re talking about something else, OK?” President Obama shames black voters to actually vote this election season.
“This is not just about degrading the reputation of Barack Obama”.
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Nearly 2 million votes, or fully one-third of the 5.67 million presidential votes cast in the state in 2012, came from Philadelphia plus Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties. “An African-American was not allowed to be a citizen, whether slave or free, born here or born elsewhere, until we fought a Civil War and enacted the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution”, Kaine said. But the GOP-Cuban alliance is softening, and Trump could speed the process.
