This isn't 'Survivor,' Obama says; Trump, Clinton fire away

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This isn't 'Survivor,' Obama says; Trump, Clinton fire away

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY

 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump warned Thursday that a cloud of investigation would follow Hillary Clinton into the White House, evoking the bitter impeachment battle of the 1990s in a closing campaign argument meant to bring wayward Republicans home. Clinton and her allies, led by President Barack Obama, told voters to get serious about the dangers of Trump.

 

As polls show Trump closing in on Clinton in key battleground states, her campaign is rushing to shore up support in some long-standing Democratic strongholds. That includes the campaign's Michigan firewall, a remarkable situation for a candidate who looked to be cruising to an easy win just a week ago.

 

Clinton's shrunken lead has given Trump's campaign a glimmer of hope, one he's trying to broaden into a breakthrough before time runs out. That means zeroing in on questions of Clinton's trustworthiness and a new FBI review of an aide's emails.

 

The attack is aimed at appealing to moderate Republicans and independents who have been the holdouts of his campaign, turned off by his behavior but equally repelled by the possible return of the Clintons.

 

"Here we go again with the Clintons — you remember the impeachment and the problems." Trump said Thursday at a rally in Jacksonville. "That's not what we need in our country, folks. We need someone who is ready to go to work."

 

Clinton and allies, meanwhile, are seeking to keep the spotlight on Trump, charging that his disparaging comments about women and minorities, and his temperament make him unfit for office.

 

"He has spent this entire campaign offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters," Clinton said, singling out Trump's endorsement from the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan and noting that he has retweeted messages from white supremacists.

"This has never happened to a nominee of a major party," Clinton said.

 

"If Donald Trump were to win this election we would have a commander in chief who is completely out of his depth and whose ideas are incredibly dangerous," she said at Pitt Community College outside of Greenville, North Carolina. Clinton was slated to campaign later Thursday with former primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders and pop star Pharrell Williams in Raleigh.

 

Trump's path to victory remains narrow. He must win Florida to win the White House, no easy feat. Still, his campaign has been buoyed by tightening polls there and in other key battlegrounds, as well as by signs that African-American turnout for Clinton may be lagging.

 

Clinton enlisted Obama's help urging those voters to the polls and lighting a fire under other Democrats, particularly young people, who share some of the wariness about Clinton. Speaking to students at Florida International University in Miami, Obama told voters now was the time to get serious about the choice.

 

"This isn't a joke. This isn't 'Survivor.' This isn't 'The Bachelorette.'" he said, taunting the former reality-TV star. "This counts."

 

Relishing one of his last turns on the campaign stage as president, Obama repeatedly returned to his new campaign catchphrase capturing his disbelief in the unpredictable race to replace him.

 

"C'mon, man," he said, to cheers.

 

Obama has been trying to bait Republican into veering off message — counting on Trump not to have the discipline or the ground game to capitalize on a late surge.

 

But the famously unconventional Trump has been hewing closer to convention, running some upbeat ads, bringing out his wife for a rare campaign appearance and even talking publicly about trying not to get distracted.

 

"We don't want to blow it on Nov. 8," Trump said Thursday at the rally in Jacksonville, his fourth in Florida in two days.

 

Clinton's weekend schedule underscored the Democrats' fresh anxiety in the final stretch. She is due to campaign Friday in Detroit, where a large turnout of black voters has long been crucial to success, following up on a last-minute meeting by former President Bill Clinton with black ministers on Wednesday night.

 

Clinton and Obama, along with their spouses, will headline a final pre-election rally in Philadelphia next Monday evening.

 

Trump has had far fewer allies carrying his message. Sen. Ted Cruz, his GOP primary foe, did campaign with vice presidential candidate Mike Pence outside Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, but he never mentioned Trump by name in a 14-minute speech.

 

Trump's wife, Melania Trump, made her first appearance on the trail since the Republican convention in July. At a get-out-the-vote rally in the Philadelphia suburbs, the former model tried to counter the Clinton campaign's pounding attacks on her husband as setting a poor example for children.

 

She told the group that if she becomes first lady she will focus on combatting online bullying and working against a culture that has "gotten too mean and too rough," she said.

 

Melania made no reference to her husband's regular name-calling on social media. On Twitter, Donald Trump has called Clinton "crooked," ''pathetic," ''liar," ''a fraud" and "very dumb." He's called Cruz a "true lowlife pol" and a "complete and total liar."

 

Trump's daughter Ivanka was campaigning in New Hampshire.

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Associated Press writers Darlene Superville in Miami, Julie Pace in Winterville, North Carolina and Errin Haines Whack in Berwyn, Pennsylvania contributed to this report.

 

-- © Associated Press 2016-11-04

[maoro2013]

Hillary was apparently out of her depth as Secretary of State! Hardly a qualification for president.

[elgordo38]

4 hours ago, maoro2013 said:

Hillary was apparently out of her depth as Secretary of State! Hardly a qualification for president.

Any in depth suggestions? Fred Flintstone?

[jcsmith]

3 hours ago, bark said:

Obama, the worst President ever. I heard he will become a golfer on PGA. After playing 600 rounds of golf.

What a joke he is as a President.

Seriously? On the heels of G.W. Bush you are going to try to make that claim? He inherited a bad situation and stabilized it with the housing and unemployment crisis. Perhaps back up that claim with the reasons why you would feel that way?

Edited November 4, 2016 by jcsmith

[uptoyoumyfriend]

trump 's a commie friend  -he will sell us to the russians

[rijb]

It’s not even close.

 

"That’s a problem for a lot of Americans: They just don’t love the two choices," Meyers said. "Do you pick someone who’s under federal investigation for using a private email server?

"Or do you pick someone who called Mexicans rapists, claimed the president was born in Kenya, proposed banning an entire religion from entering the US, mocked a disabled reporter, said John McCain wasn’t a war hero because he was captured, attacked the parents of a fallen soldier, bragged about committing sexual assault, was accused by 12 women of committing sexual assault, said some of those women weren’t attractive for him to sexually assault, said more countries should get nukes, said that he would force the military to commit war crimes, said a judge was biased because his parents were Mexicans, said women should be punished for having abortions, incited violence at his rallies, called global warming a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, called for his opponent to be jailed, declared bankruptcy six times, bragged about not paying income taxes, stiffed his contractors and employees, lost a billion dollars in one year, scammed customers at his fake university, bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself with money from his fake foundation, has a trial for fraud coming up in November, insulted an opponent’s looks, insulted an opponent’s wife’s looks, and bragged about grabbing women by the pussy?

 

 

[Gecko123]

President Trump?

 

Terrifying.

[maoro2013]

3 hours ago, elgordo38 said:

Any in depth suggestions? Fred Flintstone?

While Donald is  problematic Hillary has a few issues and they will follow her.

[ddavidovsky]

Not a shred of dignity left for either of them. Honestly, if this is what anybody has to go through to become President, it isn't worth it.

[JHolmesJr]

Actually, it is 'Survivor'….and his girl Crooked Hill is fighting for Survival….she's about to be voted off the island….the tribe has spoke etc etc

 

But seriously, Obama had 8 years to make things better and what did he do?

 

Adopt a weak and ineffectual foreign policy, screw up the middle east more than it was, pivot to asia and nothing to show for it.

 

And his girl is going to carry on…on this ineffective path.

 

People are fed up….only a vote for Trump will convince these career political parasites how pissed off people are.

[NovaBlue05]

Obama has been more visible in the last month than he has for his entire 2nd term

[Scott]

Numerous off-topic posts removed.   I suggest you read the OP and stick to the topic.   My patience is running low with the incessant trolling.  

[Boon Mee]

Sounds like desperation time for Obama and the Democrats.  "Survivor" will definitely be Donald Trump! 

 

disclaimer - (a non-trolling post - just stating facts)

Edited November 5, 2016 by Boon Mee

[LennyW]

[elgordo38]

18 hours ago, maoro2013 said:

While Donald is  problematic Hillary has a few issues and they will follow her.

I would have to be cloned to follow all the politicians in the world with problems. Easier to follow the ones that don't. The only  one coming to  mind is that great lady that has grabbed the Burma military by the tail.