The fact that Trump clung to the “birther” idea for so long, Kaine added, meant that “he’s either incredibly gullible or. he was trying to prey upon people’s darkest emotions”.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., September 17, 2016. He was holding his news conference at his new hotel in the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, which, he promised, is “going to be something very special”.
The race for the White House tighten this week – perhaps to a dead heat. The surrogates also insisted that a confidant of Hillary Clinton’s started peddling the theory that Obama was born in Kenya, that Trump has been a victim of unfair media coverage over the issue and that Americans don’t care about the issue, anyway.
The seemingly ominous comment evoked a remark Trump made last month that many Democrats condemned as a call for Clinton’s assassination. To top it all off, he went and made another glib remark about assassinating Clinton - one that’s even harder to blame on interpretation than the last one. Clinton also said some of these people were “irredeemable” and not “representative of America”. “He’s attacked by people who have never met him, who haven’t given a thoughtful look to his plans which of course are out there for everyone to see”.
REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Donald Trump raised the threat of violence against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton again, suggesting her Secret Service guards voluntarily disarm and “see what happens to her.” .
Routine falsehoods, unfounded claims and inflammatory language have always been staples of Trump’s anything-goes campaign.
“In recent weeks, he’s tried to restrain himself and clean up his image, but as Maya Angelou once said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”, Clinton said. “That’s what’s really scary”.
It comes after a TV-friendly day where Trump discussed some of his medical records with talk show host Mehmet Oz, drawing laughter and applause when the television doctor said Trump had high testosterone levels, and “Tonight Show” show host Jimmy Fallon playfully mussed the candidate’s hair during a lighthearted interview. As the Republican nominee, so does Trump; he received it in November 2015.
“The health of presidential candidates is a pertinent issue because voters have grown accustomed to being able to have health data on the candidates during the campaign”, says Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science at Atlanta’s Emory University.
“It is excruciatingly clear that there is only one person in this election we can trust with those responsibilities, only one person with the qualification and the temperament for that job and that is our friend Hillary Clinton”, said Michelle Obama. “Washington won’t be the same when he’s done”. Trump is, to put it mildly and politely, incapable of understatement. “Who knows? They may have even been doing it together”.
“I’m shocked that a question like that would come up at a time when we’ve got so many other things to do – well, I’m not that shocked actually”, Obama said. Kudos to Tapper for refusing to let Christie get away with it. And in most states in this country that’s what exists.
Trump has often cited the country as a model of a failed state, warning that if Clinton is elected, she’ll turn the US into Venezuela.
“Trump has been defined”, said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster.
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Where Republicans differ is over whether the acceptance of Clinton’s transgressions is just as ominous for the country.
