Trump once again addressed Clinton’s emails to chants of “Lock her up!” from the crowd.
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As Donald Trump struggles through a second week of self-inflicted stumbles, the Democratic nominee’s campaign has started to push into Republican territory by courting some of the party’s core supporters and expanding her campaign’s operations into traditionally red states.
“So, my friends, if you are a Democrat, an independent, or a thoughtful Republican, you know their approach is not going to build an America where we increase opportunity or decrease inequality”, Clinton said to cheers. “Americans” best days are still ahead of us if we make up our minds to actually go out and make that happen”. Most Republicans (59%) favor release of the most recent tax returns, but they’re less supportive than Democrats (77%) and unaffiliateds (63%) are. It’s a strategy that initially anxious some Clinton aides, who feared he would drown out their candidate’s general-election message.
In contrast to Clinton’s emphasis of her opponent’s remarks, Trump barely mentioned the second amendment in his speech in Virginia on Wednesday, referencing it only once as he spoke at a closed event.
Some Trump voters who show up only because the tycoon is running may also think, what the heck, as long as I’m here I might as well vote for the other Republicans on the ballot. Her campaign sent out an email to supporters earlier this week e/titled, “He may still beat me”. “The one common feature of every Hillary Clinton idea is that it punishes you for working and doing business in the United States, ” he said. “This is not just about rolling up the score”. His latest unforced mishap: an off-hand remark that critics quickly slammed as a suggestion that gun-rights backers should take a literal shot at Hillary Clinton should she win the White House. I think they trust me.
Yet Clinton is undoubtedly beginning to cast her gaze beyond the Democratic base. “I do believe in her fundamentally, in her vision for the country, what kind of country we want to be”.
Clinton’s campaign stepped up efforts to win over Republicans and independents, launching a group that aims to use a wave of almost 50 recent endorsements of Clinton by high-profile Republicans and independents to persuade voters to cross party lines.
Trump also pointedly referred to the president by his full legal name: Barack Hussein Obama.
To be clear, there are significant differences between the Perot effort and Trump’s campaign.
All it would take is for one person to hear his “Second Amendment people” remark and interpret it as a call to shoot Clinton, a candidate whom that person has been primed to view as illegitimate.
“Yes, I have. He just put out a press release”.
Sitting behind Trump at his rally on Wednesday was former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who resigned in 2006 after allegations he sent sexually suggestive messages to former House pages.
Republicans caution the race remains far from settled, especially since voters don’t particularly like either candidate.
“Under pressure, Trump said that he was simply trying to unify gun owners against Clinton in the voting booth”. Tuesday he told Time magazine, “I will absolutely do three debates” – although he noted he has “to see the conditions”.
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Now he’s part of a growing group of long-time Republicans, including Hewlett Packard executive Meg Whitman, former congressman Chris Shays, former congresswoman Connie Morella and members of the Bush and Reagan administrations like former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, saying not just “never Trump” but, “I guess I’m with her”.
