Obama said at a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
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But the way she and her team handled the episode this past weekend helps explain why battleground state polls show her neck and neck with a Republican nominee who has spent much of the year insulting large swaths of the electorate.
Trump, on stage, rejected any notion of racism, saying people who want secure borders “are not racists”, people who warn of “radical Islamic terrorism are not Islamophobes”, and people who support police “are not prejudiced”.
Hillary Clinton’s wariness to releasing information unless compelled to is not new; it’s a pattern stretching back to her First Lady days and probes into her making $100k on cattle futures within one year, Whitewater land deals, the death of White House legal counsel Vince Foster, and missing documents that showed up years later, lying on a White House table.
Likewise, longtime Clinton supporter Ana Cruz of Tampa brushed off the health question as a minor blip, suggesting that Clinton’s reluctance to announce her illness was understandable given Trump’s efforts to suggest she is not healthy enough to be president.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who chaired Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, said the Democratic nominee’s comments pale in comparison to Trump’s. He saw America as a shining city on a hill.
“He’d be killing Donald Trump right now”, he said. “He’s conquered the Republican primary candidates and now he’s trying to fuel this anger to go after Hillary”, said Mark Daniels, who flew from Springfield, Illinois to see Obama in Philadelphia.
“He loves this guy”.
“I think it’s fair to say. that people know more about me than nearly anyone in public life”, Clinton said Monday during a call-in to Anderson Cooper’s CNN show. That’s why I’m ready to go. KSN News Political Analyst Jeff Jarman says any movement in the numbers depends largely on public opinion, coupled with how the candidates do out on the campaign trail.
“I sure do get frustrated with the way this campaign gets covered”.
Obama said Trump’s claim that he would be a president for all is a joke and that he “wouldn’t let you all on his golf course”. “This is serious business”. The other candidate’s foundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a 6′ tall painting of himself. “They have got 40 years of my tax returns, tens of thousands of e-mails, a detailed medical letter report, all kinds of personal details”, she said.
Obama’s event at an outdoor plaza in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was his third for Clinton, including his speech at the Democratic National Convention, also in Philadelphia. Her staff had planned to bring their children in to meet Elmo and Clinton didn’t want to disappoint the kids.
“I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely”. “Like this not me going through the motions here”, he said. Tim Kaine, and her campaign manager, Robby Mook, declined to say when they first learned about her condition. “And you’ve got to make the tough calls, even when they’re not popular”. “Every time I thought I was ahead, it was like climbing up the. steps” in the movie “Rocky”.
Both campaigns are fighting over Philadelphia – and especially its middle-class suburbs – as educated white voters have turned into a swing demographic.
In her stead, Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, was set to step in for his wife at a fundraiser in California and a campaign stop in Nevada.
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Afterward, Obama was scheduled to headline a number of fundraisers in Philadelphia and NY to benefit the Democratic National Committee, which will pay the cost of the president’s campaign trip on Air Force One.
