“I believe this election is our last chance”.
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“I thought they were terrible, frightful to witness”, Trump said. Romney’s strength with that group, for example, made for a close race in Florida, where President Barack Obama won by less than 75,000 votes out of more than 8.4 million cast.
Trump himself had a change of heart on the issue, moving from a pro-abortion rights position to an anti-abortion rights stance in recent years.
Flynn told Russia Today in an interview published on December 10 that the United States and Russia should work together to resolve the Syrian civil war and defeat Islamic State. “Trump is having a hard enough time convincing people that he’ll be a suitably conservative candidate”, she said.
Flynn told Al Jazeera English in May about Trump that he “doesn’t agree with everything he’s said”, refusing to fully endorse the candidate’s calls to bring back waterboarding and for “taking out” terrorists’ families.
Obama’s challenging task is to paint some national narrative of healing that could ease tensions enough to allow frank discussions on an issue that threatens to spiral out of control and claim more lives in a senseless escalation of violence.
Another of Trump’s military advisors, retired Rear Adm. Charles Kubic, acknowledged that Trump’s rhetoric may differ from actual national security policies, telling CNN’s Kyra Phillips in April: “I think he is prone to drawing (a) very stark contrast when he’s trying to make a point”.
Donald Trump said he expects to make a decision on his vice presidential candidate choice by the end of the week, according to a Washington Post report.
Clinton’s support is strongest among young blacks, half of whom consider her honest and trustworthy and two-thirds of whom say they have a favorable opinion of Clinton. John McCain at the same point in the 2008 campaign, said Michael Podhorzer, political director with the American Federation of Labor. She noted that the campaign recently hired three former Sanders aides to lead an effort to boost outreach to young people. I’m not gonna kid you. She’s very talented. And she has a husband that I also like very much. “I’m more concerned that our country could collapse because we are not dealing with education issues, immigration issues”.
Trump added that has heard some Black Lives Matter activists say “horrible, awful things about police and about others”. Polls suggest Trump trails Clinton with those voters, especially women.
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Now, almost half predict it won’t make a difference, and those who see an impact say by overwhelming margins that it is more likely to help her than hurt her. Men are more confident about that than women are, and younger women are more optimistic about the potential impact than older women are.
