Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump: 'Cut it out'

Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump: 'Cut it out'

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton told her Republican counterpart to "cut it out" late Thursday night, after Donald Trump fuelled controversy by declining to correct an audience member who referred to President Barack Obama as a Muslim.

In her Twitter message, Hillary Clinton commented as follows:

"Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong. Cut it out," Clinton tweeted Thursday night. She signed the tweet with an "-H," which signifies that she wrote it.

Trump took questions at a rally in New Hampshire on Thursday evening. The first questioner called Obama a Muslim, said he was not American, and asked Trump when "we can get rid" of Muslim "training camps."

 

"We have a problem in this country - it's called Muslims," the man said. "We know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American - birth certificate, man. ... We have training camps growing, where they want to kill us. That's my question. When can we get rid of them?" the questioner said.

Trump responded: "We're going to be looking at a lot of different things. You know, a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to look at that and plenty of other things."

Critics almost immediately blasted Trump for not correcting the questioner to note that Obama was born in the US and is a Christian. Trump has a several years-long history of controversy questioning Obama's birthplace, and he said in July he doesn't know if Obama was born in the US.

Allegations of Muslim "training camps" within the US has long stirred suspicion on the right. The far-right publication World Net Daily, for example, has alleged that the FBI has knowledge of more than 20 such "training camps" within the US. Some of those allegations have found their way into more mainstream media.

The Democratic National Committee also pounced on Trump's remarks late Thursday night, accusing him of "racism."

"GOP front-runner Donald Trump's racism knows no bounds," DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. "This is certainly horrendous but unfortunately unsurprising given what we have seen already. The vile rhetoric coming from the GOP candidates is appalling.

 

Mrs Hillary Clinton strongly advocates for Voting Reform in USA

Mrs Hillary Clinton strongly advocates for Voting Reform in USA 

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received  the Barbara Jordan Public-Private Leadership Award at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas June 4, 2015 and advocated strongly for immediate voting reform in USA.

She recalled her days on the 1972 voter registration drive in Texas and characterized eligible voters as eager to participate in democracy.

Reviewing the Count Every Vote Act that she sponsored in the Senate, she noted that it called for election day to be a federal holiday, mandated early voting opportunities, proposed making it a federal crime to deceive and mislead voters with fraudulent flyers, and restored voting rights to former offenders who had served their time and paid their debt.

Because since the Supreme Court eviscerated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, many of the states that previously faced special scrutiny because of a history of racial discrimination have proposed and passed new laws that make it harder than ever to vote

She called for reforms including:

• expanded absentee and early voting;
• online registration;
• cutting delays;
• 20 days of early in-person voting;
• weekend voting;
• universal automatic voter registration at 18 (She noted that 1/4 to 1/3 of those eligible are not registered);
• Abatement of the blizzard of old-fashioned paperwork in favour of streamlined, technology-assisted documentation.

In South Carolina, for example, there’s supposed to be one machine for every 250 voters. But in minority areas, that rule is just often overlooked. In Richland Country, nearly 90 percent of the precincts failed to meet the standard required by law in 2012. Instead of 250 voters per machine, in one precinct it was more than 430 voters per machine. Not surprisingly, people trying to cast a ballot there faced massive delays.

That’s why, as a Senator, I championed a bill called the Count Every Vote Act. If it had become law, it would have made Election Day a federal holiday and mandated early voting opportunities.

 

We need more Justices on the Supreme Court who will protect every citizen’s right to vote, I mean the principle underlying our Constitution, which we had to fight for a long time to make apply to everybody, one person, one vote and we need a Supreme Court that cares more about protecting the right to vote of a person than the right to buy and election of a corporation.