Despite the Republican nominee’s lead in this latest poll, most voters (59 per cent) say that the former secretary of state will reach the required 270 electoral college votes to take the White House, compared with 34 per cent for Mr Trump. Trump said it was a sign of disrespect and he would have left immediately if he had been president.
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In his roughly 45-minute remarks, Kaine said Trump has a “bizarre fascination” with dictators, is disrespectful of the American military and unable to grasp basic facts about American relationships with Russia, Latin and South America and the Middle East.
“EMILY’S List, a PAC dedicated to supporting pro-abortion rights Democratic female candidates, sent out an email to supporters Tuesday, saying Trump’s comments are “‘gender card’ politics; plain and simple”.
Clinton, 68, debuted her new campaign plane – with the slogan “Stronger Together” emblazoned on the side – and brought the press corps aboard her jet for the first time.
Trump has edged ahead of Clinton in a new CNN/ORC poll, at 45 per cent to 43 per cent among likely voters, while an NBC News poll of registered voters meanwhile shows Clinton’s lead holding at six percentage points – 48 per cent to 42 per cent. In 2008, Barack Obama and John McCain made a joint appearance at the site in NY.
“On the other hand, we have divisive and risky rhetoric of an untested candidate, Donald Trump”, Mr. Kaine said during a speech in North Carolina, going on to reference a recent letter from 50 national security scholars who said Mr. Trump is not qualified to be president.
During the Tuesday event the campaign billed as a town hall, Trump took less-than-difficult questions from a prominent adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who labeled the world situation “a mess”.
Donald Trump says his Democratic opponent would treat immigrants in the country illegally better than veterans.
Clinton’s campaign early on Tuesday attempted to pre-empt any move by Trump to distance himself from his past statements about veterans and foreign policy by organizing a news conference with military veterans before Trump’s event in Virginia and by releasing a new television advertisement featuring veterans and their families. Trump lambasted some GOP critics at those meetings.
Trump’s campaign also on Tuesday released a letter signed by 88 former US military leaders who are supporting the NY businessman’s unorthodox candidacy.
On Monday, the candidates used Labour Day – the traditional launch of the home stretch of the presidential campaign – to push their arguments that they would be best for working-class Americans.
USA presidential elections are not determined by the national popular vote but rather in each of the 50 states, with each state’s influence on the outcome weighted by its population. He focused on his proposed border wall plan in a Tuesday interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America”.
He added that had Clinton gone to Mexico, the trip would have been “a total failure”.
Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate has a background in national security and foreign policy, something some voters might not know.
Hillary Clinton once appeared to jokingly agree with a radio host’s suggestion that she needed some medical marijuana, as she struggled through a coughing fit.
For all the regional inroads being made, it could be “game over” for the third party candidates if they don’t achieve the national 15-percent support threshold necessary to make it into the presidential debates (the first of which is September 26).
Clinton, the Democrat, is campaigning in Florida in search of an advantage in the nation’s largest swing state.
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The day before in swing state Ohio, Trump softened his stance on immigration while Clinton blasted Russian Federation for suspected tampering in the US electoral process.
