“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, Clinton said during her rally in Reno.
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In a somber tone of voice, Clinton recounted her opponent’s record on race and ethnicity and sought to drive a wedge between Trump and members of the Republican Party who have rejected bigotry and religious intolerance in the past.
Donald Trump meant to say Wednesday that Hillary Clinton’s use of an email server during her tenure at the State Department was a “premeditated” act. Ethicists, opinion writers, and then third-party candidates have put it in even starker terms: in casting a ballot for Clinton or Trump voters are forced to choose the “lesser of two evils”. She called Trump “profoundly unsafe”, ran through the lowlights of his various racial attacks through the course of the campaign, and said “a man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far, dark reaches of the internet should never run our government or command our military”. “We’re living in her head rent-free, and that must terrify the political insiders who want to keep things exactly the way they are”. She’s praised former Republican presidential candidates John McCain and Bob Dole, and former President George W. Bush, for taking decisive steps to counter racism and anti-Muslim sentiment.
“We just got bigger, thanks to Hillary Clinton!” says an excited commentator on Info Wars’ Facebook livestream shortly after Clinton’s speech concluded. Majorities in Republican primary states told pollsters they backed letting immigrants stay but also voted for Trump.
Clinton has accused “decent Americans who support this campaign, your campaign, of being racists, which we are not” he said to angry jeers from the crowd.
“To Hillary Clinton, and to her donors and advisers pushing her to spread her smears and her lies about decent people, I have three words”, he said.
But the Republican nominee declined in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper to clarify whether he would still forcibly deport the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States – a major tenent of his immigration platform – after he suggested this week he was “softening” on the idea.
Kaine made some of his most pointed comments to date about Trump at a voter registration rally at Florida A&M University, a historically black university in Tallahassee.
“I don’t know what Steve said”, he said in the interview on “Anderson Cooper 360”, before pivoting back to Clinton and her email controversies.
The real estate mogul and his supporters have recently called the Democratic nominee’s health into question in an effort to undermine her candidacy. Ben Carson is seated next to Trump at center.
In 2012, President Obama got 68% of the Jewish vote in the Sunshine State, while Republican nominee Mitt Romney got 31 percent, according to exit polls.
Trump also met with black and Latino Republican leaders at his headquarters in New York City on Thursday morning.
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In anticipation of Clinton’s speech and response to an earlier ad from the Clinton campaign, Trump addressed the allegation in his own speech Thursday.
