Hillary Clinton is one state away from locking down the election
The 2016 election is in its final stretch, and Hillary Clinton has good reason
to start planning her first term.
With just 29 days left until Election Day, the Democratic nominee leads
Donald Trump, her Republican rival, by an average of 4.5 points nationally.
But that's not the number that truly maters—for that, we look to the states.
According to Real Clear Politics' electoral map, Clinton holds leads in
enough states to secure 260 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win on Nov. 8.
jeudi 6 octobre 2016
Remember the good old days when life felt so innocent, and the future seemed wide open, waiting for you to step into it? The feelings of hundreds of people gathered together in a venue cheering on your team at the football game? The days when the only responsibilities you had were to wake up early, rush to get to school on time and cram for the next test? Our high school days have some of our fondest memories. It was a time when life felt so simple and so complex all at once. Remember the good old days when life felt so innocent, and the future seemed wide open, waiting for you to step into it? The feelings of hundreds of people gathered together in a venue cheering on your team at the football game? The days when the only responsibilities you had were to wake up early, rush to get to school on time and cram for the next test? Our high school days have some of our fondest memories. It was a time when life felt so simple and so complex all at once.
mercredi 5 octobre 2016
Donald Trump retweets account calling for "HUNTIN" of Black Lives Matter activists
The original "John T. (vote Trump)" account is obviously racist.
For one, the term cuckold has taken on obviously bigoted overtones in right-wing politics in recent years as a disparaging reference to interracial relationships.
Tweets on the account suggest the German government is conducting "white genocide" by supposedly encourage sex with refugees, call for retaliatory group "HUNTIN" of Black Lives Matter activists in response to the beating of a white teenager, and say mentally ill, unarmed black man Alfred Olango was "ASKIN 2 GET SHOT" by El Cajon, California police.
How Donald Trump’s Lust For Power Killed The USFL Before It Could Threaten The NFL
The NFL owns Sundays in the fall and winter and commands the attention of a great number of red-blooded Americans, thrilling them with a bit of high drama and (heavily officiated and regulated) gladiatorial combat. This is unchallenged despite the presence of several other easily-accessible entertainment options and the league’s knack for finding headline-grabbing scandals. Like all other major sports, the NFL’s dominance has insulated it from competition. It’s a monopoly that’s still picking pieces of Vince McMahon’s XFL out of its teeth.
Now, in 2016, despite any perceived weakness, no one would dare mount a campaign for the hearts and minds of football fans unless they possessed a financial death wish and a burning need to be publicly embarrassed. But back in 1982, the NFL found itself in a different state with a media landscape that made competition feel like a more viable option.
Just 13 years after the AFL merged with the NFL (less time than it’s been, presently, since the XFL’s lone season), a new pro football league was in the works; a league that sought to give fans a real alternative with new teams and players, new rules and regulations, and even a new setting — one that moved the action to the Spring and Summer. It presented itself to be everything that the ‘No Fun League‘ wasn’t.
The United States Football League (USFL) was a massive undertaking that had been meticulously planned for years, though it folded after just three seasons. While several factors played a part in the destruction of the League, most of the blame gets assigned to Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
It’s impossible to talk about the USFL without also talking about Trump, who was known at the time as a New York real estate mogul who bought the New York/New Jersey Generals after the league’s first season. Almost immediately, it became apparent that Trump wasn’t interested in being a part of an up-and-coming spring and summer football league. Instead, Trump wanted to take on the NFL, and leveraged his position as a team owner to do just that. What resulted would ultimately lead to the league’s undoing, but as we all wait to see if Trump will get a chance to be the most powerful person in the free world, it’s fair to reminisce about the USFL, ponder Trump’s impact on it, and wonder what might have been had he not gotten involved.
#Trump buys #clintonkaine.com, turns it into #anti-Clinton #website
If you thought clicking on clintonkaine.com would take you to the official campaign site for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and running-mate Tim Kaine you'd be wrong.
Clinton's opponent in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, has snatched up the clintonkaine.com domain and turned it into an anti-Clinton news portal.
The site is littered with anti-Clinton stories with headlines like "Clinton: Sanders supporters live in parents' basements" and "Hillary's Foundation hid a foreign donation of $2 million."
The domain was originally bought by a man named Jeremy Peter Green in 2011 for US$7.30, but he recently sold it to the Trump campaign for $15,000, USA Today reports.
At the bottom of the website a note states: "Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc."
According to USA Today, despite selling the website to Trump, Green is actually a Clinton supporter who plans to volunteer for her on election day.
"By the time Trump got his hands on the domain, it was getting only 50 visitors a day. Definitely not a $15,000 domain! I'm very happy to have Trump's money," Green said in an email to USA Today. "I bought it because I knew that if Clinton-Kaine ended up being the 2016 ticket, I would be able to use the web traffic, have some fun with (the) domain, and eventually sell it."
Green says he offered the domain to the Clinton campaign first but they said they couldn't afford it. Just looking to make a quick buck, he offered it to the next bidder, which happened to be the Trump campaign.
"It allows us a nice playing field to do some opposition research and let it show," Trump's digital director Brad Parscale told Wired. "We want people to see all the truth, and not the sometimes one-sided truth that we get from the media."
#Trump buys #clintonkaine.com, turns it into #anti-Clinton #website
If you thought clicking on clintonkaine.com would take you to the official campaign site for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and running-mate Tim Kaine you'd be wrong.
Clinton's opponent in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, has snatched up the clintonkaine.com domain and turned it into an anti-Clinton news portal.
The site is littered with anti-Clinton stories with headlines like "Clinton: Sanders supporters live in parents' basements" and "Hillary's Foundation hid a foreign donation of $2 million."
The domain was originally bought by a man named Jeremy Peter Green in 2011 for US$7.30, but he recently sold it to the Trump campaign for $15,000, USA Today reports.
At the bottom of the website a note states: "Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc."
According to USA Today, despite selling the website to Trump, Green is actually a Clinton supporter who plans to volunteer for her on election day.
"By the time Trump got his hands on the domain, it was getting only 50 visitors a day. Definitely not a $15,000 domain! I'm very happy to have Trump's money," Green said in an email to USA Today. "I bought it because I knew that if Clinton-Kaine ended up being the 2016 ticket, I would be able to use the web traffic, have some fun with (the) domain, and eventually sell it."
Green says he offered the domain to the Clinton campaign first but they said they couldn't afford it. Just looking to make a quick buck, he offered it to the next bidder, which happened to be the Trump campaign.
"It allows us a nice playing field to do some opposition research and let it show," Trump's digital director Brad Parscale told Wired. "We want people to see all the truth, and not the sometimes one-sided truth that we get from the media."
Ben Stiller: Prostate cancer test ‘saved my life’
Actor Ben Stiller revealed on Tuesday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014. The tumor was surgically removed three months later, in September 2014, and Stiller has been cancer-free since.
Stiller shared the news on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show, and in an essay posted online.
According to Stiller, it was the prostate-specific antigen test, a blood test known as the PSA, that saved his life. He was tested and treated in his 40s.
But the American Cancer Society recommends testing start at age 50 for men such as Stiller, who are at average risk of prostate cancer. Men at high risk, including African-American men and those with a father, son or brother diagnosed with prostate cancer at an early age should be screened at age 45, the American Cancer Society recommends.
“This is a complicated issue, and an evolving one,” Stiller wrote, acknowledging that there’s differing advice about when — or if — to take the test. “But in this imperfect world, I believe the best way to determine a course of action for the most treatable, yet deadly cancer, is to detect it early.”
Are early PSA tests better?
Stiller’s doctor offered to give him a “baseline” PSA test when Stiller was about 46, according to his post. PSA tests measure how much prostate-specific antigen substance is being produced by the prostate, and if the levels are high, it could be a sign of prostate cancer.
Most men are not tested until they are older, around 50, but Stiller agreed to the baseline test.
“I have no history of prostate cancer in my family and I am not in the high-risk group, being neither — to the best of my knowledge — of African or Scandinavian ancestry. I had no symptoms,” Stiller wrote. “What I had — and I’m healthy today because of it — was a thoughtful internist who felt like I was around the age to start checking my PSA level, and discussed it with me.”
Over the next year and a half, Kruger continued to monitor Stiller’s PSA levels, testing the actor every six months. When his levels continued to rise, Stiller was sent by Kruger to be examined by a urologist, who then ordered him to have an MRI screening of his prostrate.
When the results came back, the news was blunt: “So yeah, it’s cancer,” the urologist told Stiller.
Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer in men in the United States, after skin cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute, and is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men. Prostate cancer usually grows slowly, the institute notes, and it often has no early symptoms. “Finding and treating prostate cancer before symptoms occur may not improve health or help you live longer,” the National Cancer Institute said.
Stiller was told that the disease was detected early and was treatable, he wrote. He underwent a biopsy of his prostate, which revealed he had “mid-range aggressive cancer.” The best option for Stiller was to get rid of the tumor through surgery. Edward Schaeffer performed a robotic assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, successfully removing the cancer.
“If he had waited, as the American Cancer Society recommends, until I was 50, I would not have known I had a growing tumor until two years after I got treated,” Stiller wrote.
“If he had followed the US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines, I would have never gotten tested at all, and not have known I had cancer until it was way too late to treat successfully.”
The case for delaying prostate cancer screening
The American Cancer Society supports PSA testing, but it warns there are downsides to testing.
“The thing Ben Stiller doesn’t understand is that his case is based on one positive experience,” said Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. “He hasn’t heard of all of the men who have had negative experiences [with PSA testing].”
The society suggests that men who are 50 or older should weigh the harms and benefits of PSA testing, discuss their views with a doctor, and may choose to get tested. Men who are at “high risk” for developing prostate cancer — those who have a family history of cancer, or are African-American, for example — may opt for PSA testing earlier, some when they are as young as 40. Some men never choose to get screened.
While Stiller sheds a good light on PSA testing, Brawley warns about the risks of the tests.
“The tests have bad operating systems,” Brawley said. “They sometimes miss cancer that needs to be found, and they find cancer that doesn’t need to be found.”
As a result of a misleading PSA tests, men may be diagnosed with prostate cancer and treated unnecessarily, leaving them vulnerable to health risks associated with biopsies and surgery.
When men’s PSA levels are tested before they are 50, there may be more chance of error in testing, Brawley said. The average age of men diagnosed with prostate cancer is 67, according to the American Cancer Society.
Along with the physical stress of undergoing screenings, tests and biopsies — a test “as invasive as it gets: long needles in sensitive places,” Stiller wrote — there are psychological stresses involved with PSA testing. Being confronted with the numbers on a regular basis, especially if they are rising, may cause depression and even suicidal thoughts in men, Brawley says.
Instead of arguing for or against PSA screening, Brawley says he wants a better prostate cancer detection test.
He hopes that the public will read Ben Stiller’s report conscientiously, rather than pushing for testing without considering the consequences.
“The bottom line is, there’s more harm associated with prostate cancer screenings than good,” Brawley said.
mardi 4 octobre 2016
Similarities Between Joe Biden & Tim Kaine Stem From Their Roots
Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Kaine has a chance to make himself better-known at Tuesday's vice presidential debate with Republican VP candidate Mike Pence. Kaine would have some big shoes to fill as Joe Biden steps down from the position; though the latter was much more of a national name than Kaine when he ran for vice president, there are several similarities between Kaine and Biden, mostly thanks to the background they share.
Biden and Kaine both have deeply religious roots, having attended Catholic school and been raised with religious values, Politico reported. Their experience informed their politics in similar ways; both men hold, or have held, socially conservative values that at times put them in tension with their party.
Yet both have tended not to let those personal values steer their political decision-making, at least recently. In 2005, Kaine, then running for governor of Virginia, said in a radio ad: "I oppose gay marriage, I support restrictions on abortion — no public funding and parental consent — and I’ve worked to pass a state law banning partial-birth abortion." Yet he's garnered a 100 percent rating from NARAL since entering the Senate in 2012, Vox reported, since he now believes, regardless of his personal views, "that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm." He also now supports marriage equality, according to The Wall Street Journal, a change of heart he credits to the gay and lesbian couples in his life.
Biden has been vocal about his personal opposition to abortion, but, like Kaine, thinks the government doesn't have the right to make them inaccessible. In a 2012 debate, he said, "With regard to abortion, I accept my church's position on abortion ... But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews and — I just refuse to impose that on others." And he attributes his support of same-sex marriage, which he expressed in 2012, to the effects of the show Will & Grace.
Though Kaine and Biden tend to make political decisions that are socially liberal, the fact that they hold personal beliefs to the contrary informed by their religious upbringings could give them both some cross-aisle appeal to conservative voters who identify with their backgrounds.
Pence's critical role: Trump's emissary to evangelicals
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mike Pence musters all of his Midwestern earnestness as he describes Donald Trump as "a man of faith." He says the Republican nominee is "a man I've prayed with and gotten to know on a personal level."
The description, in an interview with The Associated Press, stands in sharp relief to Trump's public profile over much of his career: a twice-divorced former playboy who has boasted of his sexual exploits, flaunted his wealth, used crass insults and made sweeping generalizations about whole races.
Getting tens of millions of white evangelicals to accept Pence's portrait of Trump is critical to Republican hopes for capturing the White House. It's not a question of whether Trump will win more of the white evangelical vote than rival Hillary Clinton. He will. But Trump needs to win that vote by overwhelming margins and with a high turnout.
Slight changes in loyalty could decide the outcomes in critical states including North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
So Pence, the vice presidential nominee, is on a mission across America's Bible Belt to persuade evangelicals to put their faith in Trump.
Raised Catholic but now a protestant evangelical, Pence is the ideal emissary. While Trump has wavered on abortion and same-sex marriage, Pence's conservative credentials are impeccable. And while Trump has been shaky on religion, Pence's evangelical beliefs and political persona are deeply intertwined. His signature line: "I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican - in that order."
Pence's language and mannerism are familiar to Christians who call themselves "born again." The Indiana governor quotes Biblical passages freely and was at ease telling Colorado pastors last week of his college conversion, recalling that he was "overwhelmed with gratitude" that "Jesus had died for all the sins of the world, (and) somewhere in there he died for me."
Republicans hope that gives him credibility as Pence insists Trump is a "good man who will make a great president."
"Evangelicals have to be convinced that you're at least a good person, even if you aren't all-in on the lifestyle," says Tim O'Donnell, a 64-year-old independent in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who came to hear Pence at a recent round-table with church leaders. O'Donnell said he remains unsure about whether can vote for Trump. Most evangelicals, he explained, "aren't going to vote for Hillary," but some "just aren't comfortable voting for Trump either."
White evangelicals cast about a quarter of 2012 ballots. Nearly 8 in 10 of them voted for Republican Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama. A recent AP-Gfk poll showed Trump garnering about 7 in 10 white evangelicals, with the rest split between Clinton and Libertarian Gary Johnson. Trump has attempted some outreach to black evangelicals, an overwhelmingly Democratic group, as well.
Trump aides point to their candidate's strong showing among white evangelicals on his way to the Republican nomination. Trump has backing from many evangelical leaders, including Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, the nation's most high-profile evangelical college.
But the Republican nominee has been criticized by others. Some Southern Baptist Convention leaders dislike his opposition to admitting Syrian refugees to the United States. And Pence's schedule, heavy in recent weeks with visits to churches and social conservative groups, suggests the Trump campaign knows it has work to do.
Trump and Pence emphasize the policy promises Republicans typically offer white evangelicals: Supreme Court justices and other federal judges who oppose same-sex marriage and abortion rights, an expansion of "school choice," and unyielding support for Israel in the Middle East. Trump has added a new incentive, pledging to strike down a federal prohibition on churches engaging in explicit political activity.
Trump is a Presbyterian who says he "loves my church" and tells of being influenced by the famous pastor and author Norman Vincent Peale. But he raised eyebrows last year at an Iowa forum year when he said he'd never explicitly sought God's forgiveness. He'll only occasionally read scriptural passage from notes — and in January, drew mockery for reading from "Two Corinthians," rather than "Second Corinthians."
Pence says the distinctions are merely stylistic. "I think it's fairly obvious to people that we express ourselves differently," Pence told AP. "Our experiences are different. But I think we come from the same place."
Pence said he believes "people hear (Trump's) sincerity" and "his commitment to the causes they cherish," and that will be enough.
The Rev. Mark Harris of Charlotte, North Carolina's First Baptist Church says Pence's consistency should give evangelicals confidence. Harris, who previously supported Mike Huckabee and then Texas Sen. Ted Cruz before backing Trump, adds another factor: preventing a Clinton victory.
"We wish we had somebody that checked all the boxes, who fits the profile," Harris said. He said evangelicals would like to see someone who can get something done, "even if he "isn't the greatest spiritual leader."
Still, that hasn't convinced Michael Farris, a leading national advocate of the home-schooling movement and a Trump critic.
Farris welcomed Pence recently to the Home School Legal Defense Association's national convention in North Carolina. Pence told AP he privately made his case to Farris. But afterward, Farris reaffirmed on his Facebook page that he won't endorse Trump.
Following the presidential debate Monday, Farris ratcheted up his argument. Trump, he posted, "should step aside and let Mike Pence take on Hillary."
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AP Polling Director Emily Swanson contributed. Follow Barrow on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/BillBarrowAP
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Two Out of Five Americans Cannot Name The VP Candidates Of Either Party
Tonight is the vice presidential debate between Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine and Republican Gov. Mike Pence, and a new poll shows that a solid chunk of Americans have no clue who either of these people are. A recent ABC News/SSRS poll showed that 46 percent of people were unable to name the Democratic running mate, and 41 percent of people could not identify Pence as as Trump's running mate.
People under the age of 50 were less likely to know the running mate of either party, and people over the age of 50 said that they were more likely to watch the VP debate.
From ABC:
ABC News together with our partners at SSRS survey research firm asked an online opinion panel about the upcoming debate between Republican Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, which takes places Tuesday at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
Asked to identify Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's running mates, 41 percent of respondents could not correctly name the GOP's vice presidential nominee and 46 percent were unsure of the name of the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
A majority of Americans say they are likely to tune in to the debate Tuesday night. Sixty-four percent are likely to watch the vice presidential showdown, 10 percent fewer than the number who said they expected to watch the first presidential debate between Democratic nominee Clinton and Republican nominee Trump last week.
Compared to the 2008 and 2012 elections, it does seem as if there's been much lower emphasis and attention paid to the vice presidential candidates. In 2008, it almost seemed as though more attention was paid to then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin than the actual man on the top of the ticket. While it's somewhat refreshing that the attention is being spent on the actual candidates running for president, it is also somewhattroubling that people can't even name the person who is going to take over if something (God forbid) were to happen to the person at the top of the ticket.
The vice presidential debate airs tonight at 9 p.m. eastern.
Clinton Foundation Denies Hacking Claim
Guccifer 2.0, an online persona widely regarded as a front for Russian intelligence operatives, claimed Tuesday to have hacked the Clinton Foundation, the non-profit organization that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton founded with her family.
“I hacked the Clinton Foundation server and downloaded hundreds of thousands of docs and donors’ databases,” Guccifer said in a post on the self-proclaimed hacker’s blog. “It was just a matter of time to gain access to the Clinton Foundation server.”
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A Clinton Foundation official denied the claim in a statement to Fortune. “Once again, we still have no evidence Clinton Foundation systems were breached and have not been notified by law enforcement of an issue,” the official said. “None of the folders or files shown are from the Clinton Foundation.”Guccifer posted screenshots of folders and spreadsheets allegedly pulled from the foundation’s computer network along with an 860-megabyte file of alleged donor information. A photo of the alleged directory included folders named “DCCC,” “DNC,” “Donor Research and Prospecting,” “Large Contributions,” PAC Fundraisers,” and suspiciously, “Pay to Play.”
“As you can see, the private server of the Clinton clan contains docs and donors lists of the Democratic committees, PACs, etc. Does it surprise you?” Guccifer wrote.
Guccifer also claimed that one spreadsheet showed how banks like Goldman Sachs GS0.75%, J.P. Morgan JPM0.86%, and Morgan Stanley MS0.28%contributed some portion of bail-out funds from the 2008 financial meltdown to Democrats. “It looks like big banks and corporations agreed to donate to the Democrats a certain percentage of the allocated TARP funds,” Guccifer wrote.
Clinton reaches out to women while Trump defends taxes
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Arizona (AP) — Hillary Clinton appealed to voting mothers Tuesday outlining ways she hopes to curb gun violence as president and provide paid family leave and sick days for struggling working moms. Donald Trump tried to blame his opponent about revelations that his massive financial losses could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for years.
Clinton, appearing at a Family town Hall outside Philadelphia, said, "It should not be so hard to be a young parent. And it should not be so hard on the other end of the age spectrum to take care of your loved one."
She was making a case to suburban female voters who have sometimes backed Republicans in past presidential races.
Trump, meanwhile, sought to shore up support in deep-red Arizona during a challenging stretch for his campaign that aides hoped would be steadied Tuesday night by a strong performance by his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, against Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine in the vice presidential debate.
The celebrity businessman — who was also grappling with new allegations of boorish treatment of women and criticism of his comments about veterans' health — resorted to blaming Clinton for the tax code that could have allowed him to not pay taxes for nearly two decades after he apparently lost nearly $1 billion in 1995.
"Why didn't she ever try to change those so laws so I couldn't use them?" asked Trump in the Republican-stronghold of Prescott Valley, before suggesting that Clinton's desire to protect her rich donors prevented her from passing any legislation while she was in the Senate.
Trump has refused to release his tax returns. His tax reform proposals do not call for changing the provision that would have allowed him to avoid paying.
He attempted to change the campaign conversation by seizing on former President Bill Clinton's comments describing the nation's current health system as "the craziest thing in the world."
"Can you imagine what he went through after making that statement? He went through hell," said Trump. "But you know, honestly, there have been many nights when he's gone through hell with Hillary."
Despite frequently depicting Bill Clinton as an abuser of women, Trump said he wanted "to thank him, honestly, for being honest" about Obamacare.
Asked about her husband's comment on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said she would attempt to "fix what is broken and keep what works" if elected president, adding that Republicans want to repeal the entire health care program. She also condemned Trump's recent comments about veterans, in which he suggested that soldiers who suffer from mental health issues might not be as strong as those who don't.
She said Trump's comments "are not just ignorant, they're harmful."
Trump's campaign said Monday his comments were being misconstrued.
There were signs Trump's troubles were trickling down to other Republicans on the November ballot.
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican running for re-election, stumbled on Monday night when she was asked whether she considers her party's nominee to be a role model for children. Ayotte, who is in a close race with Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, initially answered "absolutely," but then backtracked in a statement afterward saying she had changed her mind.
"I misspoke tonight," the statement said. "While I would hope all of our children would aspire to be president, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton have set a good example, and I wouldn't hold up either of them as role models for my kids."
Ayotte's trouble answering the question underscores Trump's trouble with independent, moderate and college-educated women who are turned off Trump.
Those were precisely the type of voters Clinton was seeking to connect with in suburban Philadelphia's Delaware County, where President Barack Obama earned 60 percent of the vote in both the 2008 and 2012 election but has often served as a swing area in the battleground state.
During the town hall, 15-year-old Brennan Leach, the daughter of Democratic state Sen. Daylin Leach, told Clinton that "body image" was a major issue for girls her age at school, adding, "I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look."
Responding to how she would "undo some of that damage," Clinton thanked Leach as the crowd cheered, saying she was "so proud of you for asking that question." She said "it's shocking when women are called names."
First lady Michelle Obama joined in, assailing Trump at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. She said, "The presidency doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are."
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Thomas reported from Haverford, Pennsylvania. Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Kathleen Hennessey and Catherine Lucey contributed to this report from Washington.
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