Clinton, flanked by American flags and standing beneath a portrait of George Washington, said Trump is dividing the United States and is a far cry from Lincoln, who argued against slavery in the same chamber in 1858, famously telling the assembled lawmakers that “a house divided against itself can not stand”.
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In Ohio, Clinton and Trump were tied at 41 percent, while in Pennsylvania, Trump had 43 percent support over Clinton’s 41 percent.
“In a speech weighted with America’s complicated racial history, Democrat Hillary Clinton laced into Republican presidential rival Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of fueling divisions among Americans over race and religion”. “We are watching it become the Party of Trump”. Sanders’ campaign: “Thank you”, Clinton said. “Because Donald Trump’s campaign adds up to an ugly, risky message to America”.
Hillary’s, despite being cleared of charges last week, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified that Hillary did lie to the American public about her email server.
On July 5, FBI Director James Comey said he would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton, but called her “extremely careless” in her handling of classified data. “So I recognize I have to do better, too”.
The two White House hopefuls, meanwhile, remained in a dead heat with 41 percent apiece in OH – largely unchanged from the 40 to 40 percent tie they saw in June, the survey found. Elected the first Republican president two years later, Lincoln declared that “a house divided against itself can not stand”.
Clinton is not the first to reach for Lincoln’s legacy. Clinton said that as president she would urge white Americans to gain a better understanding of the anxiety many blacks feel in dealing with law enforcement.
Trump, in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, predicted that protests against police violence that followed last week’s slaying of the five police officers in Dallas “might be just the beginning for this summer”.
By wide margins, voters in each state agree with the statement, “The old way of doing things no longer works and we need radical change”.
“His campaign is as divisive as any we’ve seen in our lifetimes”.
“It is built on stoking distrust and pitting American against American”, she said, listing his proposals to ban Muslim immigration, deport the American-born children of immigrants, and order the military to “commit war crimes” like torture. “It’s there in everything he says and everything he promises to do as president”. Now they have Trump up by three.
For the donor, Trump releasing his returns is “a matter of character”, Brock said, noting that other Republicans such as 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney have also called on Trump to release his returns.
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As the challenge hit Twitter, Trump supporters criticized Brock for using veterans as a political ploy. Find out via AP’s Election Buzz interactive.
