“I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton”. “The more places you can make them play defence, the better off we are”.
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Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist who advised Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, said there’s a common-sense playbook for dealing with political slip-ups: “Stop the bleeding and put it behind you by apologizing”. It’s a strategy that initially anxious some Clinton aides, who feared he would drown out their candidate’s general-election message. He added (in all caps): “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?”.
Trump has blamed Obama’s decision to pull US forces from Iraq in 2011 for destabilizing the Middle East and creating a situation in which Islamic State militants could thrive.
“I mean, he let this happen”, Trump said.
“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”, Trump told Hewitt.
“They had eight states, eight countries, now they have 28 states … they are expanding”. It’s an instinct that Trump’s opponents say a president can’t possess. “This is not just about rolling up the score”. Bernie Sanders said she suffers from bad judgement.
Yet Clinton is undoubtedly beginning to cast her gaze beyond the Democratic base. So if Mr. Trump was being sarcastic, does that mean he actually is praising Obama and Hillary’s role regarding ISIS?
Trump is on the trail Friday in Pennsylvania – a must win state. She says she’s typically awake by 6:30 a.m. and gets news updates on her phone and from advisers.
On Thursday, Clinton admonished Trump for the Islamic State “smear” against the USA president.
Trump has blamed the USA news media for taking many of his comments out of context, and on Thursday night, some of his supporters heckled and cursed reporters who covered the rally in a large arena in Kissimmee.
The Republican presidential nominee is straying from his signature bravado as he campaigns in the battleground state of Florida.
I’ve got two more questions.
Trump also referred to the president as “Barack Hussein Obama” throughout the South Florida rally. After saying he hoped Russian Federation would hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and release their findings, Trump was challenged about whether he was actually calling for a foreign government to commit espionage against the United States in an effort to influence an election. A small group of middle-class mothers interviewed by pollsters Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, and Phoenix used words such as “painful”, “nauseated” and “screwed” to describe their choice.
In a statement, Clinton campaign aide Jake Sullivan responded: “It goes without saying that this is a false claim from a presidential candidate with an aversion to the truth and an unprecedented lack of knowledge”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a chart as he speaks to the National Association of Home Builders, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Miami Beach, Fla.
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Trump’s exercise in self-awareness is a marked departure from his usual tenor on the campaign trail, where for months at rallies he would tick through poll numbers showing him winning as if they were sports scores of his favorite team.
