Michelle Obama Emerges as Clinton Campaign’s ‘Not-So-Secret Weapon’

A current Associated Press analysis of polling, demographic trends and other campaign data rates Virginia as solidly Democratic, while Colorado, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania are all leaning Democratic.

Cheers from the crowd followed as the First Lady described values that her and Clinton share and those values she feels Trump lacks. “Her various speeches, her surrogate opportunities for Secretary Clinton, would she ever consider coming back in to this White House on a future date not as the first lady but perhaps as the president?”

What’s clear beyond all of this, though, is that even if Michelle Obama was digging at the Clintons, this attack was not anything close to a feature of the 2008 campaign, as it has become in the 2016 Trump vs. Clinton race.

Michelle Obama’s emergence as Clinton’s most ardent champion would have seemed unlikely not too long ago. In January of 2015, he arrived a day early at Phoenix Central High School in order to be first in line for an event featuring President Barack Obama.

Heck is locked in a hotly contested race with Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto for outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s seat. She brought up, to mockery, Trump’s charge on Twitter that the climate change hoax was created by the Chinese-a tweet he subsequently denied writing but, as she noted, had still not deleted.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has launched a rare attack on Michelle Obama, saying “all she wants to do is campaign” for his rival.

Heck says he can’t support Trump; Democrats say that’s just a political calculation. Tim Kaine, also weighed in. The surprise is that it’s not coming from the president. Gov. Mike Pence held a Pensacola rally Friday and attended a Miami-Dade Republican dinner that night.

“And we can not stand for that”, she said in Phoenix. “Hillary’s mother was an orphan, abandoned by her parents”. At a Clinton rally last week at the Kendall, Florida, campus of Miami-Dade College, that moment came a few minutes into her speech, when a young man in an American Eagle T-shirt began shouting “Bill Clinton’s a rapist!”

The conclusion she was directing those words at Clinton, her husband’s then-rival for the Democratic nomination, is based on ripping those words from their original context and banking on widespread hatred of Clinton.

The two candidates will spend the remaining 18 days before the election criss-crossing the United States in their bid to persuade undecided voters. Mitchell said he had taken the picture off his wall and wanted Kaine to hang it up at the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s official residence. The vice president casts tie-breaking votes in the Senate.

“That means he’s losing”, Obama said about Trump’s claims about the validity of the election. If Democrats somehow boot a chance to win control of the Senate in this term, she’d be their top prospect to carpetbag into another state to take on a vulnerable Republican in 2018.

The poll, which was conducted by The Arizona Republic, Cronkite News, and the Morrison Institute for Public Policy, shows Trump trailing Clinton by 5.1 points.

“The independents are not known for great turnout and the Republicans who aren’t fans of Trump will either quietly vote for him or not vote for either; they will not vote for her”, James said.

Priebus also tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that voter fraud is not “some figment of people’s imagination”. Recent polls show a double-digit lead there for the Democratic nominee, whose campaign has pulled resources out of defending the state.

Brewer is a Trump supporter. “It’s not unreasonable to assume that Josh [Earnest] is going to get asked how this was possible, and he should have the factset”.

“For all the progress we’ve made, if we don’t work as hard as we can in these next 16 days all that progress could be out the window”, he said.

Of course we know that’s nonsense since Obama emailed Hillary.

“I’m fascinated when he says, ‘Don’t boo, vote.’ I was just waiting for that line”, Noel said. “We have ISIS all over”, Trump said during his address in North Carolina. “This race is going to be competitive up until the end”.

For Republicans, Maricopa County – which includes Phoenix, more than 4 million of Arizona’s 6.7 million residents and a prominent Trump supporter in controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio – is where Trump’s style could pay dividends.

Mook tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that the activists in the video “never had a relationship with the Clinton campaign”. He said the crowed highlighted the diversity of the Democratic party.