Then she referred to the transition in 2008 with a dig at Trump for questioning whether Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
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It took Donald Trump five years of dodging, winking and joking to surrender to reality after a campaign of relentless deception that tried to undermine the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.
Hillary Clinton on Saturday praised President Barack Obama for being a “great American” while again ripping into Donald Trump for leading the “birther” movement against him.
There is no evidence that is true, and Clinton and her allies have strongly denied that suggestion.
Hillary Clinton’s once-commanding lead among young voters has almost collapsed, several polls show, a factor making the presidential race much closer in recent weeks and prompting the Clinton campaign to move quickly to keep a core Democratic constituency in the fold. “Clinton is trying to drive home the idea that Trump is a con artist by finding fault in the initial health letter from Trump’s gastroenterologist or by criticizing Trump’s disclosure of the most basic health records on Dr. Oz”, Gillespie says.
While some backers of Clinton’s primary campaign against Obama eight years ago raised the question of Obama’s birthplace, Clinton herself has long denounced it as a “racist lie”.
The President made his first solo appeal this week, appearing at a campaign rally in Philadelphia and phoning in to African-American radio to talk up Clinton. “I just go back to the unforgivable one”.
At the rally, Mr Trump took on other criticisms he has faced for using anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
On Trump’s quest to win over African-American voters, Obama quipped, “Well, we do have challenges, but we’re not stupid”. “We have to keep the suspense going, OK?”
Perhaps the responses from the Clinton campaign and the media aren’t all that surprising given their reactions to Trump’s comments last month.
Senior Trump adviser Jason Miller said that Mr Trump had brought “this ugly incident to its conclusion” in 2011 by forcing Mr Obama to release his birth certificate.
“Yeah”, Obama said. “It’s nearly time”.
It’s also become clearer that Clinton’s “bad weekend” – which included describing half of Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables” on Friday, and a health scare (followed by news that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia) on Sunday – has affected the polls. “When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry?” she asked. “The ups and downs in the race have depended on the degree to which (Mitt) Romney voters from 2012 considered Trump to be acceptable or beyond the fringe”. On Friday, the president of the United States seemed much bigger. But we’ve got a museum for him to visit, so he can tune in.
Several black Republicans have also expressed disgust at Trump’s connections with the birther movement.
“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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Patch wants to know: who do you believe is healthier, Clinton or Trump? He did so even after signing the Iran Nuclear Review Agreement Act, which was advertised to the public as a guarantee that Congress would have the final say.
