Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine broke with his running mate Hillary Clinton over her comment that some Trump supporters are “irredeemable”.
Advertisement
Clinton’s campaign on Sunday largely let Trump’s stands-ins on TV splash around in the morass of “birtherism” while it grappled with her critical challenge: winning young voters who don’t trust her and whose support has waned in recent weeks.
Donald Trump’s most prominent supporters insisted Sunday that he’s put the burden of “birtherism” behind him with his concession that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. And Pence defended his running mate on ABC’s “This Week” with Martha Raddatz. “I don’t know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over”.
Kaine also sought to explain Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark in the context of the birther controversy about President Obama.
During a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina in August, Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. We’ve expressed it differently, but you have to call out these dark emotions because if you let them pass, you actually can let them grow”, Kaine said.
The USC Dornsife/L.A. Times Poll asks roughly 3,000 American citizens each day about the presidential race in order to reflect the political pulse of the country.
“I always knew this would be tight, and you’re right, we have work to do”.
He cited the nation’s polarized politics as a reason for the tightening polls. “You all know him because he’s from NY”. “We are politically very divided, and that is reflected again and again in so many of our elections”.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a top adviser to Trump, told Fox News Sunday that Trump’s comments had been misinterpreted and demanded that Kaine apologize to Trump for suggesting he had a malicious intent. One by one, they argued Trump didn’t start the birther fable, that he’s the victim of a biased media and that people don’t care about the birther issue, anyway. “We will educate him”, he said, referring to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the new Smithsonian institution that is set to open on the 24th of this month.
Advertisement
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. “But Donald Trump has demonstrated by his trashing the military, by his belief that we need more nukes, but especially by his praise of dictators, even encouraging the Russians to commit cyber espionage against the United States. Who were you trying to appease by doing that?’ That question still needs to be answered”.
