“Hillary would rather protect the offender than the victim”, said Trump at the Milwaukee rally. On Monday, Clinton and Biden campaigned in Scranton in northeastern Pennsylvania.
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Donald Trump made a pitch for African-American voters on Tuesday by calling for more police in America’s inner cities, arguing that Democratic policies have failed minority communities and accusing Democrats of “peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force”.
But Trump has more ground to make up with African-American voters than any Republican nominee in recent history, drawing just 1% of the African-American vote in a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in the battleground states of OH and Pennsylvania.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump chats with military veterans during a campaign stop at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee on Tuesday.
Opinion surveys show Trump trailing his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton nationally and in key battleground states. “It sends the wrong message to friend and foe alike”. “The world is watching, not only here in Milwaukee but across the country”. “If it is true, people shouldn’t be rioting”, he added. But he offered few specifics about how the process might work or how it would be paid for by taxpayers.
Officials from the Office of Director of National Intelligence are expected to give Trump a briefing on national security issues this week, an adviser to Trump and a source familiar with the matter said yesterday.
“For African Americans, they’ve been trying to take away the vote”, said Grillison Sharida, 58, a Clinton volunteer who spends Saturdays at a West Philadelphia park registering voters.
“It just absolutely bewilders me when I hear Donald Trump trying to talk about national security”.
Earlier, Trump held three events in Milwaukee, a city still reeling from violent protests after the death of Sylville Smith, 23. His visit follows several days of violence that has left businesses in flames and the Milwaukee police chief expressing surprise at the level of unrest. “He has not been good to the police, simply, and the police are not big fans of his”, Trump said.
In an interview on Fox News Channel, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker accused Clinton of “inflaming the situation” with her comments.
Before the event, he met with local law enforcement officers to emphasize his commitment to being the “law and order” candidate. “There are two names, and only two names that will be on the ballot on November 8th who can be elected the next President of the United States. And then I watched the Olympics and it’s exactly the opposite”, she said.
While guarding against complacency, Clinton is also preparing for a potential administration. While the GOP business mogul has vowed to project strength and take decisive action against terrorists, the former secretary of state has pointed to her foreign policy credentials and warned that Trump could plunge the nation into another war.
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The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as opinion surveys show Trump trailing Clinton nationally and in a host of key battleground states following a hard campaign stretch that saw him insulting the Muslim parents of a soldier who died in Iraq and temporarily refraining from endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was involved in a primary in his home state of Wisconsin. Ken Salazar would chair her White House transition team.
