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Party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump, Hillary Clinton says

Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting on August 28, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (AFP photo)

Democratic US presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has attacked her Republican rival, Donald Trump, saying “the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump.”

In a speech to a Democratic meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Friday, Clinton said that the rest of the Republican presidential field is Trump "without the pizzazz or the hair."

Opponents of Trump have been saying that he wears a wig and his hair is not real.

Addressing a televised news conference in South Carolina on Thursday, a visibly upset Trump invited a member of the audience from the crowd to come on stage and examine his hair. She pulled the hair and said they look real.

A member of the crowd on Thursday checks to see if Donald Trump’s hair is real.

“A lot of people have said a lot of things about my hair over the years. So I do kind of know what Donald is going through. And if anyone wonders if mine is real, here's the answer: The hair is real; the color isn't. And come to think of it I wonder if that's true for Donald, too," Clinton said.

The former US secretary of state, who was speaking to the Democratic National Committee summer meeting, also slammed Trump for saying "hateful things" about immigrants and “insulting” women.  

“Just yesterday he attacked me once again and said I didn't have a clue about women's health issues. Really? I mean you can't make this stuff up, folks," she said.

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, despite making inflammatory comments about women and Mexican immigrants in the US, calling them drug dealers and “rapists.”

According to the latest Quinnipiac polls released on Thursday, Trump is dominating the other GOP candidates with 28 percent voter support.

Pollsters say they have never seen anything like it. The real state mogul’s dominance of the Republican race is forcing political experts to change their minds and question whether everything they know about winning the presidential election is wrong.

As many as 17 Republicans are seeking their party’s nomination for president but only Trump, Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are considered serious contenders.

Clinton is competing against only three Democrats and one independent senator, Bernie Sanders, for the Democratic Party's nomination. Only Sanders is considered at all competitive in the early primaries.


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