Trump pressed by skeptics at bipartisan event

Touting the necessity for compromise with Democrats, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated he & Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders share a standard concern about trade deals.

The Problem Solver Convention, organized by No Labels and The Hill, is the first opportunity for voters to hear from candidates from both major parties.

Trump used his usual stump speech at the event, touting his speedy and under-budget overhaul of a botched renovation of the Wollman ice skating rink in New York City’s Central Park as proof of his ability to get things done.

The former Democratic senator and governor is on the advisory board for No Labels, a group formed in 2010 to promote ways that Washington politicians can find common ground.

Honestly, she shouldn’t be allowed to run, Trump said to cheers at a large campaign rally in Norcross, Georgia. Republicans, Democrats and independents turned out partly to express their frustration, and to see who might manage to fix political dysfunction.

“We’re so committed to bipartisanship today that every Democrat will be introduced by a Republican and vice versa”, said No Labels co-chair Joe Lieberman.

No matter which candidates are on stage, debate nights are “incredibly important” for each participant, Cooper said.

Clinton has repeatedly said she never knowingly sent or received classified materials on her email account and has done nothing illegal.

Trump had his share of rocky moments, such as when he interrupted an Asian-American man who was asking about South Korea’s defense alliance with the United States.

Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig, who says he has raised more than $1 million from a devoted base of supporters but is polling at or below 1 percent, was not invited.

“I’m looking forward to the Democratic Party finally joining this game and having a debate about how we solve our nation’s problems”, he said. “I don’t want to say this in a braggadocious way, but a person at CNN and a couple of other people said, ‘We have to put Donald Trump in this debate”. He had been leaning toward Ben Carson, but is turned off by Carson’s recent comments about religion and remains undecided. Lindsey Graham’s sense of humor and smarts.