{"id":16762,"date":"2016-08-26T22:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T22:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16762"},"modified":"2016-08-26T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T22:10:26","slug":"campaign-becomes-race-war-of-attrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16762","title":{"rendered":"Campaign becomes &#8216;race war of attrition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ClintonTrump-Split_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16529\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ClintonTrump-Split_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ClintonTrump-Split_jpg_800x1000_q100\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ClintonTrump-Split_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ClintonTrump-Split_jpg_800x1000_q100-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ClintonTrump-Split_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump calls Hillary Clinton a &#8220;bigot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton says Trump&#8217;s campaign is being fueled by white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>Back and forth they are going. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, says his Democratic opponent, Clinton, is the enemy of black Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/trump-clinton-bigotry-fight-227443\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/trump-clinton-bigotry-fight-227443<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this what we &#8212; the voters &#8212; are going to get from now until Election Day?<\/p>\n<p>I do hope the campaign can evolve into something a bit more edifying and educational.<\/p>\n<p>I remain befuddled by Trump&#8217;s immigration policy &#8230; his softening and then re-hardening of his plan to deport undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, I also am equally befuddled as to how Clinton is going to explain whether foreign governments have sought favors from her by their huge donations to the Clinton Foundation and\/or the Clinton Global Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>This week, though, the candidates are exchanging rhetorical artillery fire over who between them is more of a bigot.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any reason to doubt just why public opinion surveys indicate such a low opinion of these two major-party candidates for president?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump calls Hillary Clinton a &#8220;bigot.&#8221; Clinton says Trump&#8217;s campaign is being fueled by white supremacists. Back and forth they are going. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, says his Democratic opponent, Clinton, is the enemy of black Americans. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/trump-clinton-bigotry-fight-227443 Is this what we &#8212; the voters &#8212; are going to get from now until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Campaign becomes &#8216;race war of attrition&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[623,6533,1034,1424,2139,3798],"class_list":["post-16762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bigotry","tag-cgi","tag-clinton-foundation","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-race-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16764,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762\/revisions\/16764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}