Half of Republicans said Trump was the party’s best pick, while 55 per cent of Democrats said the same of Clinton, Politico noted.
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Donald Trump’s most prominent supporters insisted Sunday that he’s put the burden of “birtherism” behind him with his concession that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is headlining a Democratic Party fundraiser in NY before his final appearance at the U.N. General Assembly.
The president also fired back at GOP nominee Donald Trump, who on Friday for the first time reversed his stance on the controversial “birther” movement.
Trump spent years promoting the theory that Obama might have been born in Kenya before Friday’s reversal at a much-hyped televised event at his new hotel in Washington, just blocks from the White House, when he laid into Clinton. For hours, Clinton’s campaign obfuscated about what was wrong with her. Former Clinton campaign officials acknowledged that an Iowa volunteer circulated emails perpetuating the now-debunked story. “I wouldn’t use it”, Kaine said.
However, political polarization in the country would make it tight, he said. “So for five-years when Donald Trump has pushed this bigoted lie that the African American president of the United States is not a USA citizen, so many people connect that to the most painful time in American history”.
A poll released in July by the nonpartisan Gallup firm found “Trump and Clinton are now among the worst-rated presidential candidates of the last seven decades”.
Obama told the donors that Trump was unlike the two candidates he faced in the 2008 and 2012 general elections.
Senator Tim Kaine, Clinton’s running mate, blasted Trump’s insistent questioning of Obama’s birthplace, saying it had raised painful echoes for many Americans of a time when blacks could not be citizens.
“If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn’t matter who we elect – read up on your history”. Obama delivered a direct appeal to these voters over the weekend at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner where he made a passionate plea to his supporters to show up in November for Clinton. “I don’t know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over”.
A recent survey conducted by the Washington Post showed Clinton having an 80-point lead over Trump among black voters.
He said it would be a “personal insult” to his legacy if black voters did not turn out on Election Day for Hillary Clinton.
In the head-to-head matchup with Clinton, Trump leads up by 1 percentage point.
Clinton is beating Trump 42 per cent to 40 per cent among likely voters, according to a Morning Consult poll.
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Republican leaders say Mr. Trump’s message has begun to resonate in those battleground states and across the country.
