Most disturbing and perplexing

Up against the wall, Clinton must answer Trump. News, this morning from Fox, is that Trump is now within two percentage points from Hillary Clinton in the national polls. While the media continues to say that Clinton will defeat Trump, one must wonder. Wonderment includes:

Why are so many Americans favoring the brash, undiplomatic, and untrustworthy Republican over the more diplomatic and politically accomplished Democrat?

• The answer may be found in that rich folks fear taxation and income redistribution and are willing to remove the veil from their bigoted feelings to defend their greed?

• The answer may be found in profound ignorance and psycho-sociological deficiencies among the lower end of the American republic who are prone to exploitation?

In both instances, the answers are complex. However, for a political party and candidate, competing to win, victory can only come from the trenches. That is the candidate and associated warriors must get to work canvassing communities and presenting cogent solutions to the public that is in need.

When Trump talks about building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico for billions of dollars, that is buffoonery. When he talks about renegotiating NAFTA to make America more competitive to create jobs, that strikes home with an appeal.

What specifically are the alternatives? What is Clinton's answer to halting the immigration problem and to settling the displaced illegal immigrants? What changes would she favor in making America more competitive so that workers here have a greater opportunity?

To a larger extent, how can the American economy be made sustainable in a globally competitive world?

Make Donald Trump get off the fence and into the trenches with details. That is what voters need to hear.

"Donald Trump flew into a nation he has constantly berated during his campaign to meet President Enrique Peña Nieto and said they discussed a wall Trump has vowed to build on the US southern border, but not his demand that Mexico pays for it -- an assertion the Mexican president later disputed. 

"Who pays for the wall? We didn't discuss," Trump had said when asked by a reporter during a news conference following their meeting in Mexico City. "We did discuss the wall. We didn't discuss payment of the wall. That'll be at a later date." 

But Peña Nieto later claimed the two had discussed the wall and who would pay for it -- and he had "made it clear" to Trump it wouldn't be Mexico." 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/30/politics/donald-trump-enrique-pea-nieto-mexico/

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