Donald Trump’s running mate is firing back at comments by Hillary Clinton in which she described Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables”. The current average of polls by website RealClearPolitics puts her at 45.6 percent support, compared to Trump’s 42.8 percent.
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“The media is so terribly dishonest”, Trump said, criticizing reporters who called him out for repeating the claim that he opposed the war Wednesday during a forum in NY.
She later added, “Hillary, placing people in ‘baskets, ‘ slandering them but admitting after 8 yrs, they are “desperate for change”.
He added that millions of Americans support the Republican nominee because, “they are sick of corrupt career politicians like Hillary Clinton”.
Clinton has said her experience in government as secretary of state and a USA senator makes her uniquely qualified for the White House, and that Trump’s series of controversial comments makes him temperamentally unfit for the office.
CLINTON: The standards are not mentioned in Clinton’s education plans, although her campaign does note that as the first lady of Arkansas, she chaired the state’s education standards commission.
The rhetorical scuffle comes as the candidates head into the final two months of the campaign, with Trump trying to make up ground on Clinton before the November 8 election.
Meanwhile, Trump’s camp lost no time in making the most of the attention on Clinton’s comments.
“She is being so protected”.
An FBI investigation found that she sent unsecured emails with classified material through the server, but ultimately recommended that she not be prosecuted.
Clinton made her comments at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday, adding that Trump supporters are “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”. Trump’s campaign was virtually non-existent in OH until last month, but Paduchik said the campaign now has more staff in OH than Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign had here in 2012. “It’s like incredible”, he said. And unfortunately there are people like that. The program would benefit 11 million children.
“He’s presenting certain hateful rhetoric to try to garner votes, that is similarly dividing this country”.
Now, sure, private schools can and often do provide tuition grants and waivers to students to get them in the doors.
Mr. Trump asked how she could be president “when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?” She has made similar comments recently, including on an Israeli television station.
“We believe we have to work extra hard to make sure that the positive notion of what she wants to do breaks through given the amount of interest that there is (in Trump) and what he says and also in what we say about him”, Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told reporters on her plane. Previously, she confined her attacks on Trump supporters to those aligned with the nationalistic Alt Right movement and white supremacists. “And their supporters appear to make up half his crowd when you observe the tone of his events”.
“But the last thing we need”, Cropper continued, “is another billionaire who thinks he knows more about education than the people who spend every day working to give our kids a fair shot”. “It sounds out of touch and condescending. trying to explain away Trump’s supporters to a NY money crowd”.
On Saturday, Clinton’s staff said she attended another fundraiser at the Armonk, New York, home of attorney David Boies.
Mrs. Clinton reportedly had planned to steer her campaign away from personal attacks.
Comments about voters – especially at private fundraisers – have tripped up presidential hopefuls in the past. Trump said at Wednesday’s “Commander in Chief Forum” that Putin is a stronger leader than President Barack Obama.
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It propelled him through more than five months of party primaries and allowed him to emerge victorious over a gaggle of opponents, including such stalwarts of the party’s traditional wing as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the man formerly considered the leading Republican rebel, Sen.
