Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doubled down on a promise of a massive economic revival in a rally tonight at the University of Akron. At right is Jovita Carranza, former Small Business Administration Deputy Administrator.
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Donald Trump is postponing a speech in which he was to lay out his immigration policy.
Asked if Trump still supports a deportation task force, which the presidential candidate previously said would be done “humanely,” Conway responded: “to be determined”.
The cancellations come as the Trump campaign pushes back on reports he was “flip-flopping” on his plan to deport the more than 11 million immigrants in the US illegally.
“We’re dealing with people”, Trump said, seeming to strike a softer tone on the issue during an interview with Fox News on Monday morning. We have to be very, very strong when people come in illegally. “But we want to come up with something fair”, he said. We have a lot of people that want to come in through the legal process and it’s not fair for them.
“Even Sen. Jeff Sessions”, a hard-liner on immigration, “he doesn’t deport 11 million people in his plan”, Conway said on CNBC Monday.
Conway’s comments set off a firestorm of speculation that Trump was shifting to a more general election-friendly message.
Trump also said in response to a question that he would not put undocumented immigrants in detention centers.
Instead, Aguirre Ferre said, “he will focus on removing the violent undocumented who have criminal records and live in the country”.
Joyce Reid, 55, of Akron, an accounts payable clerk, said, “I have been a Trump supporter since he announced his candidacy past year”.
Trump’s campaign has pushed back on the notion that he’s reversing course.
Trump on Monday visited a Fraternal Order of Police chapter in OH and is set to deliver a law-and-order-themed speech Monday night in the state.
He said the U.S. Justice Department under President Obama can’t be trusted to investigate her so a special prosecutor should be appointed.
A fierce opposition to illegal immigration has been at the heart of Trump’s candidacy and appeal, so any change to his position on mass deportations – or even a softening – could anger conservative supporters who were a key to his unlikely success in the Republican primaries. “That wall will go up so fast your head will spin”.
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Clinton, meanwhile, is spending the next three days fundraising across California. “There is nothing new to report in regards to his plan”, added spokeswoman Hope Hicks. “Hillary Clinton discriminates against poor African American children by opposing school choice for votes – she wants the votes”. In the latest revelations, the State Department said Monday it is reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails. They 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.
