Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, called any interpretation of Trump’s Friday remarks as a call to violence “absolute nonsense”. “So for five-years when Donald Trump has pushed this bigoted lie that the African American president of the United States is not a US citizen, so many people connect that to the most painful time in American history”.
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But most polls now show Trump having closed Clinton’s single-digit lead.
The Republican presidential nominee, seeing tightening polls, in recent days appears to have pivoted away from the toned-down, more serious turn his bid has taken and back towards the original, off-the-cuff Trump.
In statements, the candidates offered their support for the victims.
“We know that a lot of the rhetoric that we’ve heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists, including ISIS, because they are looking to make this a war against Islam”, Clinton said, using an acronym for the Islamic State.
Obama on Monday also addressed the issue while in NY to attend fundraisers for Clinton and the annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Other polls have also shown Clinton needing to improve her standing among the younger demographic.
John Hibbing, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said he sees the enthusiasm gap in his own classrooms.
Chris Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday”, had just asked Kaine about Trump’s comment on Friday night when Trump said he thinks Clinton’s bodyguards “should disarm”. Clinton was expected to meet Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both spoken out in the wake of the attacks, which left dozens injured.
“Unlike the overall educational gap, an educational gap among white voters is not new – whites without a college degree have voted for GOP candidates by larger margins than their counterparts with more education in the last four presidential contests”, according to Pew.
“Bernie Sanders had an event yesterday in OH for Hillary Clinton”. Proceeds will benefit the Democratic National Committee, state parties and the Clinton campaign.
The United States is too tentative in its targeting efforts against terrorism overseas, Trump said in an interview, adding that the better approach would be to “knock the hell out of ’em” and possibly introduce “racial profiling” as a counterterrorism tactic.
Teri Truscott, who had backed Sanders but is now in Clinton’s camp, said her biggest frustration comes when some of Sanders’ supporters say they won’t vote.
The survey polled 1,639 likely voters and 1,861 registered voters online, on September 15 and 16.
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In 2012, Republicans backing Romney were adamant that Obama would never recreate the kind of historic turnout, especially among black voters, that he had managed in 2008 when he leveraged the historic potential of the first African-American presidency.
