Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on Monday for the Clinton Foundation to shut down immediately as questions about the philanthropy dog Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign. He did not elaborate on his policy. The 70-year-old billionaire tycoon intends to lay out specifics of his immigration plan over the next few weeks, according to Trump’s new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
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Chen said Trump could theoretically maintain a tough-on-enforcement stance that might appeal to voters now skeptical of his harsh rhetoric by adopting a nuanced approach similar to the priority-based system unveiled by President Barack Obama in 2014.
Many Republican lawmakers, whose electoral fortunes are on the line in polls concurrent with the Presidential elections, and whose winning and losing depends on the Latino vote, have pressed Trump to soften his position on immigration.
Cracking down on illegal immigration has been a centerpiece of Trump’s campaign from the start-a blueprint he released in August 2015, which remains on his website, proposes to build a wall on the Mexican border, ramp up border enforcement and curtail legal immigration programs. “We’re going to create a border”, he said. Fuentes said that Trump used the language of wanting to handle the issue in a “fair”, “humane”, and “legal” way, but Fuentes said he didn’t automatically take that to mean that Trump was going allow some to stay or have legal status. “I have massive assets”, he said.
Pence, who staunchly supported free trade agreements as a 12-year veteran of Congress, looked to square joining Trump, who has made opposing free trade a centerpiece of his campaign.
Last week, Donald Trump tried a new message out during a campaign stop Michigan: If you’re black in this country, things are so awful for you already, what do you have to lose by voting for Donald Trump?
Eugene Robinson, columnist for the Washington Post and contributor to MSNBC’s Morning Joe, pushed back on Joe Scarborough’s claim this morning that Donald Trump is better off trying to reach out to minority communities than continuing with his scorched earth campaign to win on a small, “angry” portion of the electorate. Hispanic and religious leaders who met privately with Trump ahead of the convention said he signaled that he is open to embracing a less punitive immigration policy that focuses on “compassion” along with the rule of law.
Last week, the Trump campaign faced a dramatic overhaul with the exit of campaign chairman Paul Manafort as well as the hiring of Breitbart News boss Stephen Bannon as CEO and Ms Conway as campaign manager. He made a direct appeal to African-American voters, insisting he wants the Republican Party to become their political home.
“It’s not so much about persuasion, it’s really – this election is much more about mobilizing”, said Spencer Carnes, who heads campus outreach efforts for the Colorado Democratic Party’s coordinated campaign.
“Mr. Trump is a smart man who uses common sense”, said Jennifer Carter, a small business owner from Barberton, Ohio. It’s not just because Clinton’s approval numbers are historically low for all presidential candidates in recent (or distant) memory not named Trump, and it’s not just because a traditional Republican president has the potential to be economically disastrous in the current climate.
No “personal insults” from Trump?
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Conway, Mook and Priebus were interviewed on ABC’s “This Week.” and Conway also spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
