HIL’S A-TEAM
HILLARY CLINTON kept up the pressure on Donald Trump Wednesday following her dominant debate performance, trotting out two of her best-known surrogates, Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders.
At a Philadelphia rally, the First Lady railed against Trump for his refusal to apologize for his years long racially fueled claims that her husband was not born in the U.S. — a lie that Clinton mercilessly berated him for at Monday’s matchup.
“They (the false claims) were deliberately designed to undermine his presidency and cannot be blamed on others or swept under the rug by an insincere sentence uttered at a press conference,” Michelle Obama said. “I think Barack has answered these questions with the example he’s set and the dignity he’s shown by going high when they go low.”
Obama also dug into the GOP nominee for his lack of preparedness to be President and for his volatile temperament — which Clinton also focused on at the debate.
“When it comes to the qualifications we should demand in a President, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously,” Obama said. “Someone who will study and prepare so that they understand the issues better than anyone on their team.”
“A President can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally,” she added. “If a candidate is erratic and threatening, if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fears and lies on the campaign trail, if a candidate thinks that not paying taxes makes you smart, or that it’s good business when people lose their homes, if a candidate regularly and flippantly makes cruel and insulting comments about women, about how we look,