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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Wed May 11, 2016, 01:49 PM May 2016

Sadiq Khan pledges to help Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump

Source: Independent

Sadiq Khan has offered to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump – pledging his successful campaign as a “template” to hers.

Mr Khan, the new Mayor of London, said he had successfully beaten the Conservatives’ “Donald Trump approach” to elections in last weeks’ vote.

“I think what we’ve shown — and I hope it’s a lesson that Hillary and others in American take on board, hope does ‘trump’ fear, forgive the pun,” he told reporters at the capital’s City Hall, according to the Politico website.

He said he was planning to travel to the US before the end of the year due to the threat of Mr Trump’s proposed policy of banning all Muslims from traveling to the US.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sadiq-khan-pledges-to-help-hillary-clinton-beat-donald-trump-a7024841.html

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Wibly

(613 posts)
3. Pre-hatched chickens
Wed May 11, 2016, 01:56 PM
May 2016

Hillary has to win the nomination first.
Everyone should stop counting her chickens before they hatch.

 

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
6. Gee, how could anyone see it that way?
Wed May 11, 2016, 02:47 PM
May 2016

It's just another pay for play type offer. She has taken all the other ones, so this isn't any thing unusual

dinkytron

(568 posts)
7. And I will state some more of the obvious. Alll the snark on these boards from Hillary supporters
Wed May 11, 2016, 02:50 PM
May 2016

comes from a creeping sense of buyers remorse. Do they really think Bernie fading is going to help her beat Trump.

MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
8. Perhaps Khan should give London his undivided attention for a bit before decohering
Wed May 11, 2016, 03:05 PM
May 2016

He's literally just got elected as Mayor this week, and he's already pissing about?

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