Clinton Reaches Out To Trump Fans ‘Reconsidering’ Vote
“That means I get up in the morning, I get the girls ready, I get them off, I go and do trips, I’m home before bedtime”, Mrs Obama continued in her 2007 speech. “That’s the strategy. To make this election so dirty and so ugly that we just turn off the TV and say, ‘We just don’t want any part of it, ‘” Obama said. “I don’t know if Trump has ever been to an actual polling place where you have Democrats and Republicans who are in charge of taking the votes”, he said at the rally yesterday.
“Here she is in public, pretending not to hate Catholics”, Trump said, referencing an apparent email exposed by WikiLeaks in which a Clinton spokeswoman seemed to joke about Catholics and evangelicals.
The white tie gala event in Manhattan, which is often the last time two presidential candidates share the same platform before the election, is a fundraiser for Catholic charities related to the Archdiocese of NY.
Clinton followed with a roast more in keeping with previous Al Smith dinners, poking fun at both herself and Trump.
Clinton was jovial as she asked the audience if anyone had watched the presidential debate Wednesday night – teeing up her punch line. To which Mr Trump said he should have won the Emmy. Clinton also shook the hand of Trump’s wife Melania.
“The goal of the evening is to break some of the ice, and thanks be to God, it works”, Dolan said.
“When ultimately she got the mic, she had some very amusing things that she had said, and I don’t think they got as many laughs as they could have just because the tone in the room had shifted a bit”, he said. “By doing that, he’s threatening our democracy”.
Both were present for the Al Smith Dinner, which raises money for needy children in the Roman Catholic archdiocese of NY. “The audience more or less accurately, I think, reflects the sentiments that are going on”. “You!” a voice can be heard responding, while another tells him to “get off the stage”.
“One of the things, the important aspects of this race, is role-modelling what good families should look like”, she had said at the time. Clinton herself continued with a line of attack she has used often in the Rust Belt states of OH and Pennsylvania, as they try to win over white, working class voters.