“I will consider it a personal insult – an insult to my legacy – if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election”.
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“You’re also here because you know this election isn’t a reality-TV show”.
In his brief remarks, Obama touted his administration’s achievements over the past eight years, praised Clinton and blasted Republican nominee Donald Trump as unfit to be president as he has repeatedly in recent weeks. Slumped in the Democratic corner, her haggard visage being fanned by anxious trainers, is Clinton, candidate of the status quo. With Clinton you get more of the same: more spending (approximately $1.5 trillion over the next decade)-a large proportion of it on infrastructure-paid for by higher taxes on richer households, plus more regulation, especially of banks and pharmaceutical companies.
“There is no Democratic majority without these voters”, pollster Cornell Belcher told the New York Times, which reported on a focus group of black millennials he convened earlier this month. “You’ve got to talk to your friends, including your Republican friends”. That’s a problem, says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “They’re not interested in voting in general” and likely see the choice of Clinton or Trump as “six of one and half a dozen of the other”. “Looking at the two options, they think if I can’t choose from either I might as well not choose anyone at all”. “I don’t think so”, he said.
Trump saw a 16.5 percentage-point increase in backing from African-American voters in a Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California tracking poll, up from 3.1 percent on September 10 to 19.6 percent through Friday.
“What the hell do you have to lose?” he asked at a rally in August.
The Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll indicates Clinton would receive 44 percent of the vote and Trump 38 percent if the election were held now. It is also a majority-minority city, with African Americans making up 44 percent of the population and Hispanics another 14 percent-and Clinton leads by a wide margin among both ethnic groups in national polls. Police suspect 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was captured Monday, in both bombings.
CLINTON: She has said she would expand President Barack Obama’s refugee program from accepting 10,000 to about 65,000 Syrian refugees annually.
Clinton will take a break from the campaign trail for the rest of the week to prepare for Monday’s debate. On Sunday, Islamic State claimed responsibility, calling the man “a soldier”, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the attack as a potential act of terrorism. And she would not say whether Chelsea, her daughter, would continue to run the Clinton Foundation if she were elected. “This threat is real, but so is our resolve”, Clinton said. When they got out of Iraq, this is what happened.
Obama made no bones about it in his CBC speech Saturday. Because we’re allowing these people to come into our country and destroy our country, and make it unsafe for people.
“So, Mr. Trump, now’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is”, Colbert said, “or, barring that, there’s always my balls”.
“We have to stand up to this hate”. Democracy is on the ballot. “And there’s another candidate whose defining principle, the central theme of his candidacy is opposition to all that we’ve done”.
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The Reuters-Ipsos poll also showed that Clinton’s bout with pneumonia a week ago does not appear to have scared away voters.
