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| Trump says countries are turning against US because 'the world hates us' | Trump says countries are turning against US because 'the world hates us' |
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| Donald Trump has claimed that Barack Obama and the US are loathed around the world, driving countries such as the Philippines into the arms of its adversaries. | Donald Trump has claimed that Barack Obama and the US are loathed around the world, driving countries such as the Philippines into the arms of its adversaries. |
| “The world hates our president,” Trump said Friday at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. “The world hates us. You saw what happened with the Philippines after years and years and years; they’re now looking to Russia and China, because they don’t feel good about the weak America.” | |
| Obama cancelled a meeting with Rodrigo Duterte last month after the Philippines’ controversial new president appeared to call him a “son of a whore”. On Thursday Duterte declared “America has lost” and said it was China, the Philippines and Russia against the world. But in Manila on Friday, Duterte said he would not sever ties and it was in his country’s best interests to remain with the US. | Obama cancelled a meeting with Rodrigo Duterte last month after the Philippines’ controversial new president appeared to call him a “son of a whore”. On Thursday Duterte declared “America has lost” and said it was China, the Philippines and Russia against the world. But in Manila on Friday, Duterte said he would not sever ties and it was in his country’s best interests to remain with the US. |
| The remarks from the Republican presidential nominee on Friday came after comments he made in North Carolina about first lady Michelle Obama, criticizing the first lady for campaigning on behalf of Hillary Clinton. | |
| On Friday night, after Johnstown, Trump held a second event in suburban Pennsylvania as he attempts to become the first Republican to win the state since 1988. | |
| With several battleground states like Colorado and Virginia safely in the Democratic column, Trump needs to win the Keystone State to have any chance of besting Clinton in November. However, the Democratic nominee currently has a lead of over six points, according to the Real Clear Politics polling aggregate. | |
| Speaking in Newtown, Pennsylvania, in an overheated gym with astroturf carpeting, Trump, who has long polled strongly in traditionally Democratic areas of western Pennsylvania, pledged to put miners back to work in a white collar area that is hundreds of miles from the state’s remaining coal mines. | |
| Although he has been making baseless claims that the election will be rigged due to voter fraud, Trump did not bring up that argument on the campaign trail on Friday. However, it is registering with some of his supporters. | |
| Walter McHugh, a student at Drexel University who was wearing a “Make America Swole Again” T-shirt, featuring a cartoon Trump lifting weights, said, “I think [elections] have been rigged for a long time.” He thought there would be fraud in November saying “there will be more votes than voters” while also believing polls were biased. | |
| Trump again compared his campaign to the British referendum to pull out of the EU, saying it would be like “Brexit times five”. | |
| Earlier in the day, in North Carolina, he had a risky dig at first lady Michelle Obama, arguably Clinton’s most popular and effective surrogate. “His wife – all she wants to do is campaign,” Trump said, adding, “Wasn’t she the one that originally started the statement, ‘if you can’t take care of your home,’ right? ‘You can’t take care of the White House and the country’? | |
| Trump was presumably referring to a comment by Michelle Obama in 2008, when she discussed the dueling roles of a campaign spouse and of a mother. | Trump was presumably referring to a comment by Michelle Obama in 2008, when she discussed the dueling roles of a campaign spouse and of a mother. |
| “Our view was that, if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House,” she said then. “So we’ve adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girls are first, so while he’s traveling around, I do day trips... I’m home before bedtime.” The comment was interpreted by some at the time as a swipe at Hillary Clinton’s marriage, but the Obama campaign responded that Obama had been discussing her own marriage, not that of the Clintons. | “Our view was that, if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House,” she said then. “So we’ve adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girls are first, so while he’s traveling around, I do day trips... I’m home before bedtime.” The comment was interpreted by some at the time as a swipe at Hillary Clinton’s marriage, but the Obama campaign responded that Obama had been discussing her own marriage, not that of the Clintons. |
| For her part, Hillary Clinton began her remarks at a rally in Cleveland on Friday, with a reprised joke from the previous night’s charity banquet. | For her part, Hillary Clinton began her remarks at a rally in Cleveland on Friday, with a reprised joke from the previous night’s charity banquet. |
| “I have now spent 4.5 hours on stage with Donald proving once again I have the stamina to be president,” the she said, drawing laughs and cheers from the 1,600 supporters who gathered at a college gymnasium in Cleveland. | |
| On Friday, Clinton credited these honest and at turns frank conversations with activists and young leaders for helping to inform her policy agenda to reform the criminal justice system and improve relationships between the police and communities of color. | On Friday, Clinton credited these honest and at turns frank conversations with activists and young leaders for helping to inform her policy agenda to reform the criminal justice system and improve relationships between the police and communities of color. |
| “All the advocates and activists who have challenged us to think about these issues of race and justice and equality and opportunity in new and powerful ways really deserve our appreciation,” Clinton said. | “All the advocates and activists who have challenged us to think about these issues of race and justice and equality and opportunity in new and powerful ways really deserve our appreciation,” Clinton said. |
| “I am going to do everything I can to lift these issues up because one of my hopes for my presidency will be to root out systemic racism and bigotry and discrimination.” | “I am going to do everything I can to lift these issues up because one of my hopes for my presidency will be to root out systemic racism and bigotry and discrimination.” |
| The candidates enter the last lap of the campaign with Clinton well ahead. A Politico/Morning Consult poll shows her at 42% nationally, with Trump on 36%, Libertarian Gary Johnson on 9% and the Green Party’s Jill Stein on 4%. The Real Clear Politics rolling average has her ahead by 6.2 points in a two-way race, 5.8 points in a four-way contest. | The candidates enter the last lap of the campaign with Clinton well ahead. A Politico/Morning Consult poll shows her at 42% nationally, with Trump on 36%, Libertarian Gary Johnson on 9% and the Green Party’s Jill Stein on 4%. The Real Clear Politics rolling average has her ahead by 6.2 points in a two-way race, 5.8 points in a four-way contest. |
| Guarding against complacency, the Clinton campaign launched a fresh offensive on Friday with an advert featuring Khizr Khan, whose son, Captain Humayun Khan, an American Muslim, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Khan delivered one of the most memorable speeches of this summer’s Democratic national convention, brandishing a constitution and asking if Trump had read it. | Guarding against complacency, the Clinton campaign launched a fresh offensive on Friday with an advert featuring Khizr Khan, whose son, Captain Humayun Khan, an American Muslim, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Khan delivered one of the most memorable speeches of this summer’s Democratic national convention, brandishing a constitution and asking if Trump had read it. |
| Trump lashed out at the Khan family in response, in what many judged to be one of the biggest blunders of his White House bid. | Trump lashed out at the Khan family in response, in what many judged to be one of the biggest blunders of his White House bid. |
| The minute-long ad shows Khan handling his son’s uniform and holding a US flag and looking at pictures of his son, along with footage of his son being laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. It ends with him tearfully saying: “I want to ask Mr Trump, would my son have a place in your America?” | The minute-long ad shows Khan handling his son’s uniform and holding a US flag and looking at pictures of his son, along with footage of his son being laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. It ends with him tearfully saying: “I want to ask Mr Trump, would my son have a place in your America?” |
| Finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show that September was the best fundraising month for both candidates. Clinton’s team said she raised $154m; Trump said he raised $100m. | Finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show that September was the best fundraising month for both candidates. Clinton’s team said she raised $154m; Trump said he raised $100m. |
| Throwing off his previous shoestring operation, Trump spent more in September than in the previous four put together, splashing out about $70m, including $23m on advertising. But he was outspent again by Clinton, who invested almost $83m, including around $66m on advertising. | Throwing off his previous shoestring operation, Trump spent more in September than in the previous four put together, splashing out about $70m, including $23m on advertising. But he was outspent again by Clinton, who invested almost $83m, including around $66m on advertising. |
| Notably, Clinton’s employees claimed on expenses $260 worth of products from the Trump International Hotel in New York: a tie, polo shirt and hat. These were used as props a Clinton campaign digital video highlighting that Trump does not make all of his products in America. | Notably, Clinton’s employees claimed on expenses $260 worth of products from the Trump International Hotel in New York: a tie, polo shirt and hat. These were used as props a Clinton campaign digital video highlighting that Trump does not make all of his products in America. |