Some of the effort has already been evident.
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Steven Cheung, Trump’s director of rapid response, also told the Associated Press the “expansion is in anticipation of more staff”.
But in a meeting with Hispanic activists on Saturday, Trump indicated he was open to considering allowing those who have not committed crimes, beyond their immigration offenses, to obtain some form of legal status – though attendees stressed Trump has yet to make up his mind.
Trump claimed he would work with allies to crush ISIS and told the crowd to repeat three simple words like a mantra.
Trump is scheduled on Wednesday to appear in Jackson, Mississippi, an 80 percent African-American city and capital of the state with the nation’s highest proportion of black residents.
If this week’s string of vague and contradictory statements by Trump and his team is revealing anything, it’s that his immigration policy is still evolving.
That change in tone is interpreted as a move to try to improve his standing with Latino voters, a growing demographic.
Trump has also vowed his wall will include “a big, fat lovely door right in the middle of the wall” to allow immigrants to come into the U.S. legally. In July, the campaign doled out $773,000 to reimburse various Trump-owned companies for expenses.
Romney took only 6 percent support among African Americans.
Trump, who earned the endorsement of the union representing about 16,500 border patrol agents, the Border Patrol Council, has also vowed to boost funding and resources to enforcement activities at the southern border.
Last week, Trump argued that Democrats have taken black voters for granted and that those voters should vote for him. He says he was willing to help Trump avoid the same mistakes Mitt Romney made in 2012, one of them being that Romney reached out to Black voters too late.
“What he could not anticipate is there would be a narrative pushed by the Democratic Party and the media that somehow he was a racist”.
Monday night, Trump expanded on his position on Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor”, distancing himself from deporting all of the undocumented immigrants, targeting “the bad ones”, and comparing his immigration plan to the immigration plans by Obama and Bush.
Given Israel’s recent history of supporting Republicans, it would actually be more surprising if Trump didn’t gain a lead over Clinton in the country.
Not everyone in the Trump campaign is convinced the candidate can make a credible pitch to minority voters with less than 90 days until the election.
It did not, however, address the question of why the campaign needed more space when it had a lower number of staff. And the website has been accused creating a haven for white nationalist rhetoric.
Geoffrey Skelley, a nonpartisan political analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said there is possibly an ulterior motive to Trump’s minority outreach.
There was even talk of bringing the GOP nominee to the country for a visit before the Republican National Convention in July, but that didn’t end up panning out. Trump speaking to suburban fantasies.
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Not in one million years would we imagine ourselves agreeing with something that Ann Coulter said.
