“This is a term that was just given”, Trump continued. “But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone – until now”, she added.
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“Hillary Clinton ran the State Department like a personal hedge fund”, Trump said in Manchester.
Clinton offered specific examples. “While Spencer has written favorably about both Trump and Breitbart, he has consistently emphasized they are not exactly the Alt Right”, the group said in its statement.
For her part, Hillary totally called Donald out at a Reno, NV rally, telling the audience that he, “He built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”.
“He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties”, she said.
Clinton, who has denied the influence charges, pressed the argument that Trump lacks the temperament to be president. This is not Republicanism as we have known it. You’re racist. You’re racist.’ They keep saying it. “This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump”.
In anticipation of Clinton’s speech and response to an earlier ad from the Clinton campaign, Trump addressed the allegation in his own speech earlier in the day Thursday. During the Republican primary, Trump had promised to deport the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally.
Anti-Trump demonstrators gathered outside the meeting place, holding signs reading “Trump = Always Racist” and “Trump Comments: The Definition of Racism”.
Addressing that question, Clinton said, “It really does take a lot of nerve to ask people he’s ignored and mistreated for decades, ‘What do you have to lose?’ A few words on a teleprompter won’t change that”, Clinton said.
“People are hearing the message”, he said.
Trump’s efforts were unlikely to draw out minorities in his favor but could reassure some moderate Republicans anxious about his views on race, said Bernard Fraga, a political science professor at Indiana University.
Krauthammer added that he did not think Trump’s pre-emptive strike on Clinton, when he called her a “bigot” in a speech on Wednesday, would have an effect on the race, either.
Trump met Thursday with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers to reach out to voters like them.
Hillary Clinton topped the magical 50% mark among likely voters, leading Donald Trump nationally 51% to 41%, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Thursday.
Calling it “a exhausted, disgusting argument”, he said it was Clinton who was being a “racist” by viewing minorities merely as a source of votes while doing nothing for them. “It’s the last refuge of the discredited Democratic politician”.
And Trump made a lengthy case in support of his claim that he and his supporters are not, in fact, racists. People who prefer tough immigration policies, he said, merely want “their jobs protected and their country kept safe”; people who warn of “radical Islam” and the threat of refugees merely want “to uphold our values as a tolerant society”.
The good news for Trump is that the election isn’t being held today and a new national poll out from Pew Research shows some of Clinton’s post-convention glory may be fading a bit.
Bannon told the magazine Mother Jones during the Republican National Convention last month that the website was “the platform for the alt-right”, a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism.
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In an effort to steady his campaign after several rough weeks of controversies that knocked him off course, Trump put some new leadership at the top of his team this week and is about to begin his first real concerted television advertising campaign in the battleground states.
