President Barack Obama speaks to supporters while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Picture: Gerry Broome President Barack Obama speaks to supporters while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Picture: Gerry Broome
London - The ‘fate of the world’ is at risk if Donald Trump is elected US President, Barack Obama warned on Wednesday night.
The decision made by voters on Tuesday November 8 would also have grave consequences for America, he said.
Addressing a rally in North Carolina Obama said: ‘I hate to put pressure on you but the fate of the Republic rests in your hands. The fate of the world is teetering.
'If you disrespect women before you’re in office, you will disrespect women while you’re in office. If you accept the support of Klan members,’ he added, ‘then you will tolerate that support when you’re in office.’
His comments came as polls revealed voters now trust Trump more than Clinton. Two surveys out on Wednesday show the renewed probe into the Democrat’s emails has sent her already poor reputation for honesty plummeting further.
She immediately went on the offensive by attacking her Republican rival’s ‘negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision’. Trustworthiness has become a critical theme in a campaign in which the candidates have spent much of their time on a toxic slanging match.
Some 46 percent of voters now believe Trump is more honest and trustworthy compared to 38 percent for Mrs Clinton, according to the latest national tracking poll for ABC News and the Washington Post.
The two candidates had stood level at 45 percent until the FBI announced last week it was reviving the Clinton email investigation.
The ABC poll put the pair on level pegging to win, both with 46 percent of the vote. A separate CNN survey of four key battleground states also found Clinton lagging behind her rival substantially when it comes to trust and honesty.
However, her camp can console itself that voters still see her as having the better temperament to be president.
Still leading in most polls and widely predicted to win, the Democrat candidate had spent recent weeks trying to strike a more positive tone.
But she lost her composure at a rally in Florida on Tuesday in which a protester shouted ‘Bill Clinton is a rapist’ and waved a placard bearing the same claim. Raising a voice and pointing her finger, Clinton erupted: ‘I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision and anger of people who support Donald Trump.’
In a sign of how tense the election has become, a historic black church in Mississippi was set alight and the words: ‘Vote Trump’ were scrawled on the side.
The nephew of former president George W Bush also suggested his uncle might vote for Clinton.
George P Bush, whose father Jeb stood against Trump in the primaries, said he believed he was the only member of his family voting Republican this year.
And Obama finally waded into the lingering row over emails sent by Clinton on a private server while she was secretary of state. FBI chief James Comey had left her open to ‘innuendo’ by being vague over what the bureau had discovered, said the President. He added: ‘We don’t operate on incomplete information.’
* Donald Trump on Wednesday received lavish praise from the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan. The Crusader used his ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan to headline a story on the Republican candidate.
Trump’s camp called the newspaper ‘repulsive’.
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