Political statistics site FiveThirtyEight gives Trump a 38.3 percent chance of winning the state, based on current polling and the site’s own forecasting algorithms.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton called on Friday for voters to reject the “bigotry” of Donald Trump’s White House campaign, releasing a television ad criticizing his efforts to appeal to black voters and saying she was reaching out to people from all parties who are troubled by his candidacy. It also shows headlines about a racial discrimination lawsuit the NY real estate mogul faced in the 1970s.
Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to shift back to some version of the hard-line immigration posture he adopted in the GOP primaries, telling CNN that he does not support a path to legal status for illegal immigrants unless they leave the country and return legally.
The Milwaukee group described shared concerns about a few policy topics, including health care, the economy, and terrorism, but during the dissections of Clinton and Trump they rarely raised the candidates’ policy positions. At the same time the Republican Party has ushered in an era of socially regressive leaders like Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Carly Fiorina, we’re increasingly finding ourselves stuck in debates over whether statements or people are “really” racist.
But what may be most important to understand about this clique is that they are so far removed from the already troubling “establishment” conservatives that they consider themselves an alternative to those who find coded racism, misogyny and xenophobia to be too weak and passive. “They want to see things happen”, Trump said.
He said the country’s GDP growth rate of 1.1 percent in the second quarter was not a good sign for the USA economy. “It’s gonna remain very strong”, he said.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2016Hillary Clinton only knows how to make a speech when it is a hit on me.
The merchandise follows chants made at recent Trump events to “Lock her up!” over Clinton’s use of a private email server at the State Department.
Her campaign says no donors received any special favours.
Clinton’s speech in Nevada, a battleground state with a large Hispanic population, was part of an exchange of racially loaded accusations this week with the Republican nominee. The video also shows Clinton’s former Democratic rival, Sen.
Mrs Clinton has a lead in both national and swing-state polls, but Mr Trump is now in the middle of attempting – sometimes awkwardly – to smooth out some of his sharper rhetoric and back away from controversial stances.
Trump has suggested that minorities have been left behind by Democratic economic policies and hammered the nation’s sluggish GDP growth as “a catastrophe”, saying that the United States has “some very, very serious problems and it’s going to get worse with this group of people” in charge. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, if she was “disappointed that GOP leaders are not stepping up to defend Mr. Trump here”.
Finally, YouGov found that the voters who said both candidates are evil were more likely to be between the ages of 18 and 34 or undecided/third party voters.
Clinton, they agreed, is a politician who wears a mask; an ambitious, smart woman of wealth and influence who lives a life removed from everyday Americans.
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Trump has wavered in recent days from hard-line views on immigration, the hallmark of his campaign, including a reconsideration of his plan to deport 11 million people in the USA illegally.
