Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hold up signs during a rally in Austin on August 23, 2016.
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Appearing in Washington, he said Mr Obama was born in the USA but then incorrectly suggested that the Clinton campaign had started the conspiracy theory.
Following a short statement that didn’t address the birther issue, Trump stepped aside for a succession of Medal of Honor recipients to approach the microphone and endorse him.
“He owes an apology to President Barack Obama, he owes an apology to African-American community and he owes an apology to the United States of America”, said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., adding that he considers Trump to be “nothing but a two-bit racial arsonist”. With Clinton’s edge in Colorado and Virginia, and her competitive standing in North Carolina, Trump could potentially win vote-rich Florida and OH, as well as competitive Iowa and New Hampshire, and still fall short of the White House unless he can capture Pennsylvania, too.
In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate, Miller said.
In another time and with another candidate, Trump’s weird “Obama is not/is an American” nonsense and his reckless return on Friday to language that seems to invite a gun nut to go for Clinton would have sealed the deal for a runaway Democratic win.
Martin said that Trump dealt with the matter as best he could on Friday and this will be the end of the story.
“He’s a backtracker”, said Bailey Billings, 25, of Madison, Wisconsin.
“What did that mean when he said that just three weeks ago?”
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton holds a 9-point lead over her Republican counterpart Donald Trump in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, according to a Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll released over the weekend. In reversing his stance Friday, Trump did not say why, or when, he changed his mind.
As recently as 2014, Trump suggested that Obama’s birth certificate was faked, and in 2013 he even suggested that the late state health official who certified the birth certificate had been murdered. “Often black voters can translate this to their own lived experience moving through the white professional (world) where the legitimacy of your achievements are often called into question”.
“What’s happened as much as anything else is that the election is taking on the contours of the 2012 election to a very large extent”, said Democratic pollster Geoff Garin. “This is something that can resonate at an individual level”. “All his lies and nonsense just pile up”, Powell wrote. “But she failed to take forceful action and ignored the federal law requiring her to suspend visas to countries that don’t take back their citizens”.
“This is not what the American people are talking about. Absolutely disgraceful.” Powell has not denied the leaked emails’ authenticity.
Trump’s meaning was not immediately clear and a campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for an elaboration.
Christie said voters aren’t going to choose a candidate based on the birtherism issue.
Reporters waited for 20 minutes for Trump to speak on the birther controversy, but in vain.
Trump’s comment, which came as he criticized Clinton over gun rights, is not the first time he has called for Clinton’s Secret Service detail to “disarm”.
“Who knows? Who cares right now?”
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But saying Trump’s admission of the error was behind him – as two sitting governors and several other Trump supporters did across the Sunday talks shows – doesn’t necessarily make it true. “For five years he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president”, she said. “Ivanka has been a very, very successful woman, and I think he allows for all women to have an opportunity in his companies”, added Lynch.
