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Pence, Kaine joust over Trump’s comment about bodyguards

“I’ve said it’s a done issue for a long time, and Donald Trump has said it’s a done issue now”, Christie said.

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“Sec. Gates really should have, I think, in his book been a little bit more forceful about the fact that radical Islam has ideological moorings”, she said. What do you think? Yes? Yes.

“Take their guns away, OK?” In an address to the National Rifle Association in May, for instance, the real estate mogul said “heartless hypocrites like the Clintons. want to get rid of guns, and yet they have bodyguards that have guns”.

Donald Trump at a rally on Friday said the Secret Service should stop carrying weapons while guarding Hillary Clinton to “see what happens to her”. “It’ll be very unsafe”, he continued. She’s been protected but the US Secret Service since Bill Clinton’s campaign for the presidency in 1992.

Although Clinton favors some gun control measures, Trump has inaccurately suggested she wants to ban all guns.

“Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.

Trump, who for years bolstered the birther movement, made a short statement Friday that he now believes Obama was born in the United States “period”. He told host Jake Tapper that Clinton’s former campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, “recently admitted” it “was an issue that Mrs. Clinton also injected into her campaign in 2008 in a very quiet but direct way”.

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at James L. Knight Center on September 16, 2016 in Miami, Florida.

Asked if there should be a mandatory independent health assessment for all candidates running for president, 61 percent of respondents said yes. “The next president of the United States must stand in solidarity with all people oppressed in our hemisphere, and we will stand with oppressed people, and there are many”, he said.

Similarly, it’s doubtful that his latest remark will lose him a single vote.

Trump’s remarks came just hours after the real estate magnate was forced to reverse his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., the BBC reported.

Donald Trump has, once again, sparked controversy on the campaign trail.

Citing the nation’s history of racism, Kaine told NBC’s Meet The Press that Trump’s efforts to promote “the notion that an African-American president is not a citizen” are “extremely powerful and painful to African-Americans and to others who know this painful chapter in America’s history”.

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“It is excruciatingly clear that there is only one person in this election we can trust with those responsibilities, only one person with the qualification and the temperament for that job and that is our friend Hillary Clinton”, said Michelle Obama.

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