But in a one-on-one battle with Clinton, it can add up to a character question with three debates and mere weeks to go before the November 8 elections. She called half of Trump’s supporters “deplorables” – then apologized for saying “half” – only to fall ill with pneumonia and wobble during an abrupt exit from this year’s 9/11 memorial ceremony.
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His remarks on Friday were more ominous – focused not on Clinton’s supposed hypocrisy and how she would “feel” without armed guards but on what might “happen to her” if the Secret Service were to disarm. “You think Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this?” he asked at a rally. “I think her bodyguards should drop all weapons”.
She later added: “Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable”.
In August, the poll showed her support at 39% and leading Trump by 8 points.
“Ending mass incarceration, that’s on the ballot right now”, he said. “We’ve got to lay out the competing visions of the two candidates”, Kaine said.
But Trump’s high-profile supporters weren’t focused on issues.
“This should not be a close election, but it will be and the reason it will be is not because of Hillary’s flaws, but because structurally, we’ve become a very polarized society”, Obama told a Clinton supporters at a $25,000-and-up fundraiser in Manhattan.
The Democratic presidential candidate made the statement a day after a bomb rocked the Chelsea district in New York City, a pipe bomb exploded in a New Jersey seaside community and a stabbing attack unfolded at a Minnesota mall.
The president on Sunday also pointed to recent statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau that showed that middle-class and poor Americans had their best year of income gains in decades as proof that his economic polices are working.
President Obama said Mrs Clinton has been disciplined and extraordinarily effective in every job she’s held.
Christie asserted Trump had not pushed the issue: “It wasn’t like he was talking about it on a regular basis”.
At the same time, the Clinton campaign is struggling to move past evidence that Democrats, not Mr. Trump, were responsible for fueling speculation in 2008 that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya.
As recently as January, Trump sounded skeptical on whether he now believed the president was a natural-born citizen eligible under the Constitution to be president. “We’re talking about something else, OK?” “Those demands will include religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of political prisoners”, Trump said. “I mean, ISIL, North Korea, poverty, climate change, none of those things weighed on my mind like the validity of my birth certificate”, he joked.
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Trump shifts on Cuba: Trump told a Miami, Florida crowd Friday that he would reverse Obama’s orders on Cuba “unless the Castro regime meets our demands”, reports NBC News.
