“Calling him out on the fact that he has supporters like David Duke connected with the Ku Klux Klan who are going around and saying Donald Trump is their candidate because Donald Trump is pushing their values”, Kaine told a crowd of young students here.
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Kaine’s appearance in Pembroke Pines came five weeks to the day after he made his first appearance as the vice presidential nominee, appearing with Clinton at a rally at Florida International University in west Miami-Dade County. He thinks black voters will ignore a track record of racism that extends far back from this campaign to his longstanding position as the most prominent monger of the Obama birther conspiracy theory. But they have been noticeably quiet in defending Trump against Clintons charges of racism in his campaign.
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He castigates Clinton for resisting the release of her private emails.
“Democratic politicians have run almost every inner-city in America for 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 years”.
“Nothing means more to me than working to make our party the home of the African-American vote once again”, Trump said while speaking before a almost all-white audience at Iowa Sen.
Can you imagine a President Trump, who by virtue of this statement has already cast African-Americans as “losers”, throwing up his hands in exasperation because Black Lives Matter activists won’t cease and desist from sticking to their message that those who are sworn to protect us shouldn’t be killing us – and deciding to build a wall around black communities?
The online poll shows Trump with 48.29 percent to Clinton’s 47.59. Of them, 1,196 identified themselves as likely voters.
“It’s just widespread – African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Muslim Americans – and that’s 30 per cent of the electorate in November”. And I ask you this:. Republican Donald Trump received his briefing earlier this month, a customary move for major party nominees but one that has been the subject of a political tussle during the campaign.
“She’s totally bigoted, there’s no question”, Trump told CNN.
Trump improved in the gap with women by nine points, improved with white voters overall (including college-educated whites), and picked up nine points in the gap with born-again Christians.
On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton is the fiery champion of the working stiff.
“This whole week has been about trying to pick up a few additional minority supporters”, Sabato said. “I believe my aides also acted appropriately”.
I suppose it’s plausible that the real idea behind the “I’m not that big a racist” pivot is to calm confused white voters on the fence.
It behooves a Republican candidate to try to reach every voter in the country, and Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the same deep connection to black voters her husband, Bill, did.
Someone at the campaign clearly has run the numbers and figured out – belatedly – that Trump’s demographic base is too narrow to win a national election.
The events of the past week illustrate his strategic dilemma.
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Trump, speaking on the Iowa State Fairgrounds with hay bales stacked behind him, sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the U.S. immigration system after saying earlier in the week that he was softening on his plan to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.
