Trump vowed at a campaign rally in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Saturday to return the Republican Party to the values of President Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and championed the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution during the U.S. Civil War that led to the abolition of slavery in 1865.
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“And his optimistic view about 2020 when he’s running for re-election, that’s pure Donald Trump”, Pence remarked.
And when asked if he is softening his stance on immigration during a Monday night interview with Cleveland television station WEWS, Trump said he was focused on “security” and touted his plan to build a border wall.
“I’m the one that’s raising the money, and other people are getting to use the money that I raised”, Trump said in an August 11 interview with Fox News, adding that he is “raising a lot of money for the Republican Party”. “We have to be very firm. Give me a chance”, Trump said to blacks and Hispanics, noting that too many of them tumble into poverty. “I’m fighting for all of us across the country”.
A topic of priority in the United States has been immigrants coming in from the Southern border, particularly because of the lack of English speaking people who tend to get equal jobs and treatment while being here illegally. “After the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice whitewash of the Clinton email crimes, they certainly can not be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton’s crimes”, he said.
Jon Feere, a legal policy analyst with the Center for Immigration Studies, said Republicans generally get only one-third of the Hispanic vote, while Democrats get two-thirds for issues that go beyond immigration.
Asked whether Mr Trump’s plan still included a deportation force, his new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said it was “to be determined”. This moment in the campaign “feels like a fork in the road for Trump”, Oliver said.
Trump has postponed a speech in which he was to lay out his immigration policy.
There have been signs for weeks now that Trump was shifting course.
Meanwhile, Republican officials insist the GOP nominee is finally hitting his stride and will catch up with Democrat Hillary Clinton by early September, following a major shake-up to his campaign.
Donald Trump portrays himself as an indispensable cash resource for fellow Republicans up and down the ballot.
Instead, Ms Aguirre Ferre said, “he will focus on removing the violent undocumented who have criminal records and live in the country”.
Trump is expected to make an immigration speech soon.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign fired back in response to Trump’s latest efforts to scoop up the black vote..
At a rally in Akron, Ohio, Monday evening, many Trump supporters seemed unfazed by Trump’s potential shift.
“Donald Trump is really becoming unhinged”. “He knows he can’t break up families and round up people on buses to kick them out”. “That’s what it is”, Trump said, prompting the chants of the crowd: “Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up!”
Trump has highlighted crimes committed by immigrants living in the US illegally. “That’s not what he is supposed to be about”.
“We can not make America Great Again if we leave any community behind”, Trump said. “That wall will go up so fast your head will spin”, Trump said.
Clinton is on a three-day fundraising swing across California.
“Tell me, has Hillary Clinton ever apologized for lying about her illegal email server and deleting 33,000 emails?”
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Trump’s appeal came the same day a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, released 725 pages of State Department documents, including some it said were examples of preferential treatment provided to donors at the request of former Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.
