President Barack Obama is expected to deliver a “call to action” Saturday at a Congressional Black Caucus awards dinner, a senior administration official tells CNN, and he will implore black voters to help stop Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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“And to think with just 124 days to go, under the wire, we got that thing resolved”, Obama said to laughter from the predominantly African American audience.
In fact, Trump repeatedly suggested in online social media posts in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, that Obama’s certificate was fake. Let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay? “OK, it would be very risky”. “When you look at a series of these comments that he’s making, I do believe it is an incitement or at a minimum an expression of indifference to whether violence would occur”.
Chris Christie, Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, all insisted that the issue has been put to rest, and they tried to turn attention to other matters. Tim Kaine says that he would have used different words to describe Trump supporters than Clinton did.
At the end of a week when the health of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump became a focal point in the race, over two-thirds of Americans said it is important for presidential candidates to release detailed personal health records. He did not offer a reason for his change of belief. While this is not for the first time that Trump has said this, but it is for the first time he said that it would be risky for Hillary.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)Crazy Maureen Dowd, the wacky columnist for the failing @nytimes, pretends she knows me well-wrong!
His remarks also had lighter moments – particularly as he addressed the so-called “birther” controversy.
“I mean, he missed that whole civics lesson on slavery and Jim Crow”, Obama said.
It “is not because of [Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s] flaws”, he added at a NY fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. Reporters were apparently deaf when Clinton said the same.
Mr Trump says he will “stand with the Cuban people in their fight against communist oppression”.
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“It was a contentious issue, and – by the way – an issue that Patti Solis Doyle of the Clinton campaign of 2008 has recently admitted was an issue that Mrs. Clinton also injected into her campaign in 2008 in a very quiet but direct way against then-Senator Obama”, Christie said. Friday’s announcement by the Commission on Presidential Debates that neither he nor Stein polled high enough to appear in the first debate on September 26 will not help his case with the American electorate.
