The health episode fueled long-simmering conservative conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health and provided a fresh line of attack for rival Donald Trump, who has frequently questioned whether Clinton has the stamina to serve as commander in chief. But she didn’t back down from describing his campaign as largely built on prejudice and paranoia.
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Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” line may not be almost as insulting as Trump’s many vulgar remarks towards the American people – but at least it’s something new. It’s a popular schoolyard tactic for the GOP nominee, a political game of “I know you are, but what am I?”
McCain said it was up to Trump and Clinton to decide how much medical information they wanted to reveal.
While Trump’s proposals have grown more detailed in recent weeks, throughout most of his campaign he mocked Clinton for putting out so many proposals – while his aides derided reporters for pressing for specifics, insisting that voters didn’t care. “And only hatred and derision”, he said at a rally Tuesday in Clive, Iowa.
Clinton’s campaign used the letters to argue that she’s gone far beyond Trump in disclosing details about her personal life. “Now cars are made in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint”.
“It’s nearly like a political shortcut”, he said, “a strategy of, ‘Nope you’re guilty too, let’s move to the next question'”.
If Hillary Clinton wasn’t ill before she made nasty comments about Donald Trump’s supporters, she certainly was afterward.
John Weaver, who served as a strategist for Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s failed 2016 presidential bid, said Clinton “has an allergy to transparency” but “she’s Miss Sunlight compared to Mr. Trump”.
The letter from Trump’s long-time doctor, Harold N. Bornstein, lists Trump’s weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and other numbers.
The Clinton campaign jumped all over Pence’s refusal to insult the former KKK grand wizard, saying in a tweet that anyone who won’t call out the KKK, “has no business running this country”. Thus the unusual recent spectacle of Trump addressing white suburban audiences with entreaties to black people in which he depicted their lives as fully unredeemed (“You live in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs”). You’ve known me a long time, I’m not a name caller, I don’t play that game.
The same pattern has repeated over and over. “It’s a decision that they (Trump and Clinton) have to make”. He’s accused her of being involved with Russia despite his frequent praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his own campaign’s ties to the strongman.
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The most jarring example has come in Trump’s denunciation of Clinton, deeply popular among blacks, as a racist. In their haste to condemn Clinton for using the term “deplorable”, the Trump campaign robbed itself of control over who it gets to present as its allies, and who it does not.
“She’s going to do nothing for African-Americans”.
The damning thing is that Pence and the Trump campaign are now extending that umbrella of rhetorical protection to an unrepentant Klansman.
Thirty percent said they have a favorable view of Mrs. Clinton, compared to 58 percent with an unfavorable one.
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Trump has said he plans to release the details of a recent physical this week.
