She told Couric, they’re “part of a troubling pattern of saying things that illustrate just lack of judgment”. Some in the audience who were seated behind Trump could be seen wincing when he made the comment. “Read your teleprompter and you’re going to be fine”, Duffy said on MSNBC.
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Clinton, making her first appearance in Iowa since the caucuses six months ago, took the opportunity to make a direct appeal for voters turned off by Trump, building on her new initiative, launched Wednesday morning, aimed at Republican and Independent voters that her campaign is calling “Together For America”.
The Clinton campaign has put out eight years of Clinton’s returns, from 2007 to 2014.
Hillary Clinton highlighted the “tremendous consequences” words can have as she blasted rival Donald Trump for his “casual inciting of violence”.
Trump has dismissed the defections and criticism as an unsurprising reaction of the so-called Washington elite to his drive to change the status quo.
Hillary Clinton is seizing opportunities presented by a volatile presidential race to expand her base of support heading into the fall, seeking to position the Democratic Party for a sweeping victory in November.
“He was the founder of ISIS, absolutely”, says Trump, blaming the president for his decision to withdraw troops, which some argue created a power vacuum in which extremist groups like IS thrive.
Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist, denied on Twitter that Preibus threatened to reallocated resources from the presidential campaign to down-ballot races like House and Senate contests, as Time reported.
Trump says he won’t release them until Internal Revenue Service completes audits of his returns. “You never joke about something like that”.
“You care very deeply about the 270th electoral vote, but there are also important reasons to care about winning big”, said Geoff Garin, a pollster for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign who now advises the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action.
Trump then noted the power Clinton would have to nominate justices to the high court.
Trump’s comment and the resulting backlash occurred as Reuters/Ipsos polling showed already deep divisions among USA voters over Trump’s candidacy.
Clinton ignored questions about Mateen’s attendance on Tuesday, although the campaign did disavow his support and said it had no idea he would be in attendance.
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Trump’s intended message was not immediately clear, but lawmakers, former national security officials and other critics expressed concern that Trump had advocated, possibly in jest, that Clinton or her Supreme Court nominees could be shot.
