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| US politics: Bill Clinton stumps for Hillary in New Hampshire – live updates | US politics: Bill Clinton stumps for Hillary in New Hampshire – live updates |
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| Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s first campaign ad is a perfect distillation of the fear and flag-draped posturing that so far have defined his presidential campaign, the Guardian’s Amanda Holpuch writes: | |
| Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has released his first, long-promised campaign ad: a spot that touts his controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US “until we can figure out what’s going on”. | |
| The ad then promises Trump will “quickly cut the head off of Isis and take their oil”. | |
| In the 30-second spot, the narrator also declares that Trump will build a southern wall to prevent immigrants from illegally crossing over the US border with Mexico. Over a somber piano melody, the narrator assures listeners that Mexico will pay for the wall. | |
| Trump told the Washington Post that he hopes that the ad, and others in production, can sway undecided voters. | |
| “The world is laughing at us, at our stupidity,” Trump said. “It’s got to stop. We’ve got to get smart fast – or else we won’t have a country.” | |
| The ad, which is called “Great Again”, will start airing in New Hampshire and Iowa on Tuesday. Trump’s campaign said that it plans to spend at least $2m each week to air the ad. | |
| Trump said in a statement: “I am very proud of this ad, I don’t know if I need it, but I don’t want to take any chances because if I win we are going to Make America Great Again.” | |
| 5.14pm GMT17:14 | |
| Former president Bill Clinton is addressing a crowd at Nashua community college in New Hampshire estimated by the Hillary Clinton campaign to number 720 people, the Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui reports from the room. | |
| It’s Clinton’s first solo campaign swing on behalf of his wife, in a state that jump-started his candidacy with a second-place finish in the 1992 primary after a miserable showing in that year’s Iowa caucuses. | |
| “I do not believe in my lifetime anybody has run for the job who is better qualified by experience, knowledge and temperament” than Hillary Clinton, he says. He remembers meeting her 45 years ago: “I thought she was the most amazing person ... Everything she touched she made better.” | |
| President Bill Clinton hits the stump for Hillary in Nashua, New Hampshire pic.twitter.com/05ci6Qq3wk | |
| Bill Clinton has been taking flak in recent days from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, who told CNN at the weekend that the former president was “one of the great woman abusers of all time”. If he heard the comment, Clinton ignored it this outing – in contrast with Hillary Clinton in a campaign appearance a day earlier. | |
| “You can’t make America great again if you insult and demean the people of America,” she told a crowd in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday. | |
| Sabrina Siddiqui reported: | |
| The reference to Donald Trump’s campaign slogan was lost on no one, and it prompted a round of applause. | |
| Bill Clinton has just wrapped his Nashua speech and waded into a thick rope line. He’s scheduled to make a second appearance in New Hampshire, in Exeter, later this afternoon. | |
| Updated at 5.19pm GMT | |
| 4.15pm GMT16:15 | 4.15pm GMT16:15 |
| Hello and welcome to a quicksilver day in US politics, as the 2016 race for the White House zips out of its last warm-up lap and begins to eat track like a Formula One driver. | Hello and welcome to a quicksilver day in US politics, as the 2016 race for the White House zips out of its last warm-up lap and begins to eat track like a Formula One driver. |
| Today Bill Clinton takes his talents to New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton is in Iowa for her first 2016 appearance there, Republican senator Marco Rubio and Democratic senator Bernie Sanders join in the fun in the Granite State and Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, convenes a news conference to explain why the defection of his top staff on New Year’s Eve does not, somehow, portend the utter collapse of his White House designs. Ted Cruz is in Iowa, where he’s hoping to hold on to a surge before the first-in-the-nation caucus there on the first of next month. | Today Bill Clinton takes his talents to New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton is in Iowa for her first 2016 appearance there, Republican senator Marco Rubio and Democratic senator Bernie Sanders join in the fun in the Granite State and Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, convenes a news conference to explain why the defection of his top staff on New Year’s Eve does not, somehow, portend the utter collapse of his White House designs. Ted Cruz is in Iowa, where he’s hoping to hold on to a surge before the first-in-the-nation caucus there on the first of next month. |
| Meanwhile: Donald Trump, whom you may have heard of, is out with a major television ad to air in Iowa and New Hampshire that is being welcomed as racist, alarmist and painfully xenophobic. Whatever works! | Meanwhile: Donald Trump, whom you may have heard of, is out with a major television ad to air in Iowa and New Hampshire that is being welcomed as racist, alarmist and painfully xenophobic. Whatever works! |
| Elsewhere, President Obama is expected to announce limited executive orders to expand background checks and potentially more on gun laws, after a meeting at the White House in the 2pm eastern hour. Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts will have that news, while politics reporters Sabrina Siddiqui and Ben Jacobs will have news from the trail, and much more. Read on! | Elsewhere, President Obama is expected to announce limited executive orders to expand background checks and potentially more on gun laws, after a meeting at the White House in the 2pm eastern hour. Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts will have that news, while politics reporters Sabrina Siddiqui and Ben Jacobs will have news from the trail, and much more. Read on! |
| Updated at 4.34pm GMT | Updated at 4.34pm GMT |