Donald Trump launched a broad rebuke of his presidential rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday, accusing her of being “a world-class liar” who personally profited from her tenure at the State Department.
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It’s even reached the point at which the party’s “grown-ups” are comfortable endorsing a Democratic presidential candidate.
The billionaire Republican candidate for president, who has denounced Clinton’s U.S. $42 million war chest as “blood money”, sharpened his attacks on the polarising Democratic nominee after disastrous headlines have fuelled speculation that his controversial campaign is unravelling. The presumptive Republican nominee said he doesn’t question Clinton’s faith, but simply doesn’t “know anything about her faith”. “All he can do is try to distract us”, she said.
The candidate said Clinton, a former senator from NY, deleted emails with crucial information about the United States government that could fall into the wrong hands.
The property developer and reality-TV star said the Democratic candidate did not have the temperament or the judgment to be president of the United States and portrayed her as someone who believed “she is entitled to the office”, turning her campaign slogan against her. “She gets rich making you poor”, Trump said. And her largest lead is in Trump’s coveted Keystone State.
The Trump campaign is hoping the speech can quiet those concerns and rally Republicans around their shared opposition to Clinton.
Trump’s tone was pointed yet measured as he ticked through several of Republicans’ favourite critiques of Clinton, including her use of private email as secretary of state and her role in responding to the attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya. “Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton’s disastrous [North American Free Trade Agreement], just like she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization”.
“Maybe we shouldn’t expect better from someone whose most famous words are, “You’re fired”.
“I think that what appears to be occurring over the last 24 hours is a movement in a direction that I think could be very, very positive”, Corker said. “And I guess my speech yesterday must have gotten under his skin, because right away he lashed out on Twitter with outlandish lies and conspiracy theories, and he did the same thing in his speech today”.
Clinton was in Washington, D.C. Wednesday to meet with House Democrats. Forty-two percent said Clinton and 35% Trump. “Sigh”, she said, dead-panning the word into the microphone.
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Although Trump’s appeal as an outsider had millions of new voters pulling Republican levers in the nation’s primaries, he should not see this phenomenon as evidence of sufficient strength in the general election. Tim Kaine and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro.
