Press Trust of India
Washington, July 17: Donald Trump is at the centre of attack in a new advertisement by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign that invites adults to imagine what a child might be learning from the Republican presumptive nominee’s provocative rhetoric. Soft, inviting piano tones are set against a pink sunset and a neighbourhood at dusk, before the 70-year-old real estate tycoon’s voice interrupts the tranquil scene. “I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks,” Trump is heard telling a crowd.
More of his acidic comments are played, while the screen is filled with close-ups of children gazing at television sets, seemingly soaking up every R-rated remark, the New York Times said in a report. “Our children are watching,” a text card warns after two young children watch on television Trump appearing to mock a reporter with a disability. At the end, Clinton is shown delivering a speech on children, closing with: “We need to make sure that they can be proud of us.”
The ad paints Trump as “unpresidential and unfit for office, in the eyes of both children and, the ad assumes, their voting parents (who, one could argue, might not be too happy with the Clinton campaign’s rebroadcasting of the messages to children watching television),” the NYT report said. It added that the Clinton campaign has also made the 68-year-old former secretary of state’s record of working for children and families a central focus, while trying to portray Trump as a poor role model for children. Meanwhile, on the eve of the key Republican national convention, there is some good news for the Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton: she is leading over Donald Trump by 47-43 per cent.
Inset: Americans pessimistic about race relations
Washington: An overwhelming majority of Americans think the next president should place “major” focus on improving US race relations, which most see as “generally bad.” The Washington Post/ABC News poll released yesterday was taken shortly after the mass shooting of white police officers by a black sniper that followed two high-profile shooting deaths of black men at the hands of police. Out of 1,003 adults surveyed, 83 per cent said the next president, who will be chosen by voters in November, should place an “especially major” focus on achieving better race relations, with nearly half of respondents saying it’s an “extremely” important issue. Only 12 per cent said they don’t want the next president to place major emphasis on the issue.
