Arguably, no other issue has animated the GOP base more than immigration over the past decade since former Republican President George W. Bush, a former border governor, pushed for a similar bill in 2007. Blacks are naturally turned off by Trump’s blatant racism, but even if Jesus Christ returned and ran as a Republican for president, and performed miracles and wonders, he would still garner less than five percent of the black vote.
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The observation has been noted that Trump’s tactic is less to convince African-Americans and Latinos as to influence the members of the white population that have been turning against him.
Republican Donald Trump is courting minority voters as rival Hillary Clinton prepares to deliver a speech that will accuse his campaign of courting hate.
“Well, look, I have the upmost respect for Secretary Powell”, Clinton said, adding that she appreciates all the advice he gave her as she prepared to become secretary of state, but “I’m not going to relitigate in public my private conversations with him”. Just 24% of respondents said undocumented immigrants take jobs Americans want, compared with 71%, also including majorities in both parties, who said they mostly take jobs citizens won’t do. At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color, and in MS on Wednesday he went so far as to label Clinton “a bigot”.
Trump acknowledged Wednesday, during an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, that he may be for letting law-abiding illegal immigrants who have been in the country for a long time pay a fine so they can remain in the country. “It’s a exhausted, disgusted argument and is so totally predictable”.
In an appearance in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday he had called Clinton a “bigot” who would do nothing to help blacks.
One is me. Having mocked Trump for getting in a Twitter war with
a Mexican narcotrafficker way back at the beginning of the campaign, only to see him shoot to the top of GOP polls, I long ago certified this campaign as too bat-guano-crazy to predict.
Donald Trump is trying out a new shtick, where he “reaches out” to African-American voters and “softens” his extremist immigration stance to try to convince suburban white people he’s not that racist.
The position is hard line enough that Trump will continue to differentiate himself sharply from Hillary Clinton, who wants legalization and a path to citizenship and wants it promptly.
We’re already seeing poll numbers changing in favor of Mr. Trump as her lies and debacles are brought to light to a generation of voters who didn’t even know the Clintons in office.
Trump conceded on Tuesday that he might consider “softening” of the laws governing the treatment of illegal immigrants. That came after a weekend meeting with Latino leaders.
TRUMP: He says the border isn’t adequately protected. I want you to remember these three words: “Shame On You”, he said in New Hampshire.
“As we have expressed numerous times, your rhetoric of relentless attacks against our community is an issue of serious concern and has had a significant impact, fuelling an alarming trend in our nation”, the letter reads.
Sevier County typically votes overwhelmingly Republican, and the state ofTennessee is a reliably red state.
On the other hand, Trump has said he wouldn’t split up families, though he hasn’t explained how he’d reconcile those policies.
Yet the Republican presidential candidate also repeated his promise to build a wall along the U.S.
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He called on Clinton to disavow the video. They have to go.
