The president said though the race between Hillary Clinton and Republican businessman Donald Trump should never have been a tight one, the underlining “sexism in the society” may affect the former secretary of state’s presidential run. Take them, let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay. “It would be very risky”. Presidential nominees are protected at all times by heavily armed teams of Secret Service agents, some uniformed and some undercover. Luntz said undecided voters tend to see the race as a matter of two bad options in Clinton vs. Trump. But it is the first time he has wondered aloud what would happen to her should she suddenly deprived of armed protection, CNN noted.
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Asked on ABC’s “This Week” whether he would use the word “irredeemable” to describe many of Trump’s supporters, the Virginia senator and Clinton running mate said he wouldn’t.
Democrats also served notice that would continue to challenge Trump over “birtherism”, the false suggestion that President Obama was born in another country.
Perhaps the responses from the Clinton campaign and the media aren’t all that surprising given their reactions to Trump’s comments last month. “Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
Still, 47 per cent of those polled think Clinton will win in November, and 33 per cent said Trump will.
During the speech the President also joked about Donald Trump’s admission about his birth certificate.
The Clinton campaign has used several different tactics to rouse the African-American community, including garnering public support from the Obamas.
Mr. Obama underscored the achievements of his presidency, in terms of income growth for workers and attempts to reform the criminal justice system, but cautioned that the work is far from over.
Kaine, speaking on a string of morning shows, said Trump pushed a “bigoted lie” created to undermine the legitimacy of the country’s first African-American president, and needs to be pressed about whether he really believed it. The so-called “birther” movement largely launched Trump into the political arena, and CBC members made clear they didn’t take his reversal seriously.
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.
Thirty-six percent said a presidential candidate’s general level of health and fitness will have a major impact on their vote; 51 percent said it will have a minor impact; and 13 percent said a candidate’s general health and fitness will have no impact on their vote.
Trump says he’ll “stand with the Cuban people in their fight against communist oppression”.
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After years of fanning false rumors that Obama wasn’t actually born in the United States, Trump declined to answer whether he now believes Obama is a natural-born US citizen in an interview with the Washington Post this week, as he has done throughout the campaign.
