President Barack Obama on Sunday praised Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her intellect, fortitude and “unerring” judgment and blasted “the other guy”, Republican Donald Trump, on his NY home turf as unqualified to be president and uninterested in learning enough to make the hard decisions the job requires.
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The president then got serious and went on to tell the audience that he would consider it a “personal insult, an insult to my legacy” if black Americans didn’t come out in huge numbers to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Obama said the November election shouldn’t be close but predicted “it will be”. “Structurally we already have these divisions”, Obama said.
Trump has pulled even with Clinton in many recent polls, but continues to fare poorly among black voters, many of whom resent his questioning of Obama’s birthplace.
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In that speech, the Democratic nominee also reached out to other sectors of the Obama coalition, including LGBT voters, African Americans and those who secured health care under the current president. Clinton laid out her plan earlier in the campaign.
The remarks from Obama come just one day after he made an impassioned plea to African-American voters at the Congressional Black Caucus gala in Washington, D.C., urging them to work to stop Trump.
Florida is a make-or-break state for Donald Trump.
“My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot”, he said.
“Just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in NY, and nobody knows exactly what’s going on, but boy, we are living in a time”, Trump said.
To be sure, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee and first-time candidate, was for years at the forefront of the so-called “birther movement”, which argued Obama was born in Kenya, therefore not a US citizen.
“If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn’t matter who we elect – read up on your history”. “It would be very risky”, Trump said in Miami.
It “is not because of [Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s] flaws”, he added at a NY fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.
The poll found Trump’s “highly unfavorable” score was 42 percent, compared to 33 for Clinton.
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It was only on Election Day, when returns started trickling in from key counties in swing states from Florida to OH, that the Romney brain trust learned how wrong they were.
