The Republican candidate said in an interview with Fox & Friends on Monday that he is “not flip-flopping”, but wants to come up with “a really fair, but firm” solution.
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Over the weekend, Trump met with his newly formed Hispanic advisory council, and BuzzFeed reported that he expressed interest in finding a “humane and efficient” way to deal with undocumented immigrants that sounded at odds with his previous plan to remove them from the country.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on CNN that it’s “to be determined” whether the Republican nominee’s plan will include a “deportation force”, as he called for in November 2015 before the primaries began.
“Even Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-Ala.], who was one of the first to endorse Donald Trump and is known for the immigration issue, he doesn’t deport 11 million people in his plan”, Conway said on CNBC on Monday. “And I think he’s going to get this thing back on track”, Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, said on Sunday. Thirty-eight percent said they now think more highly of Kasich, while 17 percent said they viewed him less highly.
“You will always have a seat at the table”, Kaine said.
What Trump said at a Hispanic roundtable in NY on Saturday “differed very little from what he has said publicly”, Conway said, adding that the billionaire also focused on the economic themes that he has made core to his pitch to voters and that he says resonates across demographic lines.
To date, Trump has not disavowed his calls for mass deportation, though he is expected to provide a more detailed version of his policy during a speech Thursday in Colorado.
According to the poll, 83 percent of Republicans are supporting Trump and 88 percent of Democrats are backing Clinton.
The Monmouth poll found Clinton and Trump performing about the same with voters of their respective parties, which suggests there is growing party unity as the election approaches and both candidates continue to work to shore up their base.
Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic opponent, has staked out positions on immigration that are similarly objectionable to many conservatives. “He wants to double down on letting Donald Trump be Donald Trump”, Mook said. I want to get the bad ones out.
“I would bomb the s– out of them”, Trump says. The celebrity businessman and former Atlantic City casino tycoon also promised to build a wall across the U.S.
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Conway then reiterated Trump’s newfound moderation Monday. The emails were recovered as part of the FBI’s now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Clinton’s private home server during her time as secretary of state. This is partly because while Trump leads comfortably among white men, 52% to 28%, he is losing white women to Clinton, 38% to her 46%.
