“When I ran against John McCain, we had deep differences, but I couldn’t say that he was not qualified to be president of the United States”, Obama said of his 2008 opponent.
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“I have sat at that table in the Situation Room”. But in a one-on-one battle with Clinton, it can add up to a character question with three debates and mere weeks to go before the November 8 elections.
New York’s governor and mayor said on Monday that the bombings in a Manhattan neighbourhood and a New Jersey shore town are looking increasingly like acts of terrorism with a foreign connection.
In another incident, a man stabbed nine people at a central Minnesota mall on Saturday before being shot dead by an off-duty policeman.
The debate will be September 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
“I’m old enough to remember when presidential candidates, if there have been three terror attacks on the soil of the USA, a policeman shot, and a lot of other things happening, suspend the attacks on each other for 24 hours, and try to, say, pay respect to our law enforcement and other officials”, Kristol remarked. The campaign is paying particular attention to younger voters this week, with Clinton set to spotlight her plans for lowering education costs during a speech Monday at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Siena College puts Clinton ahead of Trump in Democratic voter-rich NY by 21 points in a four-way matchup in a new poll released Tuesday morning.
Kaine condemned Trump in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday”.
“We’re not knocking them, we’re hitting them once in a while; we’re hitting them in certain places”.
Clinton urged voters not to “get diverted and distracted by the kind of campaign rhetoric we hear from the other side”. “But boy we are living in a time – we better get very tough, folks”.
“It’s because of her type of leadership over the last eight years”, he said, “along with the president, that the world is a much more risky place”.
Donald Trump’s campaign team yesterday stood firm on his claim that rival Hillary Clinton spread the idea that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, two days after the Republican conceded the president was an American.
At a campaign rally in Colorado on Saturday night, Trump declared the explosion to have been caused by a bomb, hours before police voiced any public conclusions.
In a statement, Trump’s campaign accused the White House of playing down the threat posed by Islamic State.
Republican congressional nominee Francis Rooney of Naples said all members of the party should be supporting Trump and called on Republicans who are tempted to sit it out to think again. “When you look at a series of these comments he’s making, I do believe it is an incitement or at a minimum an expression of indifference whether violence would occur”.
Clinton will speak “directly to millennial voters about how they have the most at stake in this election”, according to her campaign.
She is scheduled to meet with the leaders of Egypt, Ukraine and Japan late in the day in New York City.
Trump agreed terrorists have a preference: They “want her so badly to be our president”.
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The events came as both candidates were dealing with missteps.
