Political pundits listed one obvious reason why Clinton was so eager to engage on this issue: if minority voters show up to vote like they did for Obama, with a record 66 per cent turnout the last time, she nearly certainly becomes president.
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The photo was taken in 2006, according to a February 25 Politico report featuring Obama campaign manager David Plouffe slamming the picture.
Hours after Trump’s announcement, his campaign’s spokesman emailed a statement to reporters furthering the campaign’s argument that Clinton’s 2008 campaign was responsible for starting the issue – guaranteeing it continues to be a campaign topic.
Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle admitted on Twitter and in a cable interview Friday that a Clinton staffer had indeed spread the rumor that President Barack Obama was born outside of the United States.
Mr Trump ignored questions from reporters about his switch and has yet to explain why he abandoned the “birther” stance that fuelled his political fame and was viewed by critics as an attempt to delegitimise the nation’s first African-American president.
Donald Trump’s renouncement of birtherism came with some media gamesmanship that compelled television news networks to air 20 minutes of endorsements by retired military men before the candidate briefly got to the point.
“His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie”.
That’s False. There is no evidence that Clinton or her 2008 campaign floated the theory, nor is it accurate for Trump to say he finished the controversy.
“I’m inspired by her insistence, her consistency and her guts”, said the first lady.
Trump also told his audience, many of them Cuban Americans, that he would reverse the Obama administration’s actions which have eased restrictions on the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba.
Clinton has called for tighter access to guns, including universal background checks, but has never said she planned to get rid of the Second Amendment.
A New York Times/CBS poll this week showed Clinton with more support from people under 30 than Trump but still well below the levels Obama achieved.
Obama issued his Hawaii birth certificate in 2011, partly in response to Trump’s jibes, but the issue has not died during Trump’s bid for the presidency.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN: Is he a natural-born citizen?
The facts of Mr Trump’s actions do not match Mr Miller’s description.
“[The Obamas] are doing for Secretary Clinton what President Clinton did for Barack Obama during the general election campaign”.
She added that Trump’s relentless pursuit of the issue, which the GOP nominee now says is untrue, did help Trump appeal to the so-called Alt-Right wing of the Republican Party, a group that would eventually become a strong part of his base.
So I’m asking Hillary Clinton to be honest with the American electorate about the health conditions she has, whatever they may be. “I just don’t care for anything that he says”.
They were outraged by Trump’s actions Friday morning, when he concluded a campaign event at his new hotel just across town in Washington with a few blunt sentences admitting that Obama was born in America.
He said the “sickening display” showed why “Trump is totally unfit to be president”.
Appearing at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shortly after, he publicly ridiculed Trump, who was in the audience. Trump’s biggest falsehoods span the range of issues, from immigration (his bogus claim that the number of undocumented immigrants “could be 3 million, it could be 30 million”) to the whopper on Wednesday that “my opponent has no child care plan”, even though it’s listed on Clinton’s website.
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But he also stepped up attacks against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, accusing her of initiating the doubts about Obama and later raising the specter of violence against her again.
