He was seen as hectoring, his campaign faltered and she went on to win. That is, “directing 10 percent of federal investments to communities where 20 percent of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years”, and paying special attention to communities impacted by long-term systemic racism.
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Moreover, most voters oppose the hard-line approach to immigration that is a centerpiece of the billionaire businessman’s campaign. Clinton has just 31 percent of the youth vote there, compared with Trump’s 24 percent. But most people don’t share that fervor. Trump, an unguided missile, will be seeking to project a calmer demeanor and a command of the facts enough at least to reassure voters who doubt his capacity to serve. “But she will also make it a very salient point to remind those Latino and those African-American voters that this is a guy who does not like you”.
Addressing a policy forum organized by The Texas Tribune, the Texas senator said Saturday it was “agonizing” making the decision to back Trump, whom he once called a “pathological liar” and “serial philanderer”.
To be sure, the nation is sour on Clinton, too. Less than a third say they would be excited or proud should she move into the White House.
“I think she’s an extremely dishonest person and have extreme disdain for her and her husband”, said one registered Republican, Denise Pettitte, 36, from Watertown, Wisconsin.
Well, I think he has to be a moderator. If he tries to bully Clinton the way he bullied Jeb Bush, as one example, he will look like the sexist from hell.
“The stakes are very very high for both of them going into this first debate”, said Reed Galen, a Republican political strategist who has worked on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain.
“Like knock the hell out of them”, he said. But the bottom line is that, given that it is simply true that Trump lies a lot more frequently, audaciously, and egregiously than Clinton does, and that it took many months before this was widely acknowledged in the press, most Clinton supporters would probably be just fine with equivalent treatment of both of their assertions at the debate, and if they aren’t, they should be.
Uncertain times have not inspired Shelby Custer, of Johnstown, to throw her support behind Trump.
She has been focusing on his psychological profile, with a goal to get Trump to crack, to show that he can’t control himself and lacks the even-handed temperament a president needs.
“He usually knows what Washington’s movers and shakers are thinking even before they do”, Clinton wrote in her 2014 memoir.
Almost 6 in 10 oppose his promise to build a wall along the USA border with Mexico, and only 21 percent of his supporters and 9 percent of registered voters overall are very confident he would succeed at fulfilling his promise that Mexico would pay for the construction.
Six in 10 believe there should be a way for immigrants living in the country illegally to become US citizens – a view that Trump opposes. “It’s not feasible and Mexico won’t pay for it”, said Timothy Seitz, 26, a graduate student at the Ohio State University and a Republican. “We should be leaders. We shouldn’t cower from others and cut ourselves off in the world”. As he prepared to exit the race in July, he worked with Clinton to incorporate parts of his college plan into hers. At one point, she said: “Aw, say it ain’t so, Joe”, adding a “doggone it” for good measure.
His preparations were meticulous: The practice podiums were built to match those he would find on the debate stage and the mock debates were precisely timed.
Whatever, the usual Trump will likely have to do a disappearing act for the candidate to have a chance.
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Voters are closely split on which candidate would better handle protecting the country and evenly divided on which would better handle the threat posed by the Islamic State group. Aides have said that Democrats have offered considerable – sometimes unsolicited advice – to the former secretary of state. In Florida, polls show the candidates tied.
