Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has made a career of “stiffing” small businesses, choosing not to pay them and driving some of them out of business, Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has alleged.
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Clinton’s decision to take on the politically charged topic of race comes as Trump, trailing in national and battleground state polls and rejected by a growing list of establishment Republicans, has shifted to talking about the plight of minorities in the US and backing away from some of the harsh rhetoric on immigration that he used in his primary campaign.
Trump’s campaign declined to comment on Clinton’s campaign speech, but at a MS rally on Wednesday, the Republican nominee called Clinton a “bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings”.
On Wednesday evening, Hillary Clinton said the AP had only “looked at a small portion of my time” as secretary of state and had drawn the conclusion that her meetings with Nobel laureates – such as Peace Prize victor Elie Wiesel – were connected to the foundation rather than their work as global leaders.
“She’s going to do nothing for African-Americans; she’s going to do nothing for the Hispanics”.
Meanwhile, Clinton, who is looking to make history as America’s first female commander in chief, has hit choppy waters as well amid the continuing fallout over her misbegotten decision to use a private email server for State Department correspondence.
NEW YORK (AP) – Hillary Clinton vigorously defended her family’s foundation against Donald Trump’s criticism on Friday and declared she’s confident there will be no major further accusations involving the foundation, her emails or anything else that could undermine her chances of defeating him in November.
Darting her head from left to right, the woman appears to check if anyone heard the same thing she just did, all the while gurning in shocked disapproval.
“Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists”, Trump predicted.
“Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election”, she said. Instead, she offered a strident denouncement of Trump’s campaign and the so-called alt-right movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”, oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values”.
“The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the ‘Alt-Right, ‘ a fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party”, Clinton said. “She doesn’t care what her policies have done to your communities”.
Clinton’s speech from Reno, Nevada took aim at what she called a “fringe element” of risky nationalists that Trump has helped propel into the mainstream with his presidential ascendancy. But Jackson, Mississippi played host to the fivesome at a Wednesday night rally for Trump, focused on winning over African Americans and reinforcing his stance on illegal immigration.
Asked by WMUR in Manchester later Thursday if he wanted white supremacists to vote for him, Trump simply responded, “No”. A Trump supporter called the ad “revolting”.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said a “wide range” of outside individuals and organizations contact the State Department through both formal and informal channels.
“We need that kind of leadership again”, Clinton said. And if there’s a question to take away from Thursday, it’s this one: Why couldn’t Republican leaders say this when they had the chance?
“We have seen the number of people in the valley who know their HIV status increase by 20 percent and so that means we are getting closer to our goal of getting rid of HIV”, Brinkman said.
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Earlier in the day, the Clinton campaign released an ad which featured KKK members claiming, “These people support Trump”.
