However, the controversy about the foundation does serve as a bullet point under the broader narrative of the “Clintons playing by their own rules” – joining the email server, paid speeches, and other controversies under this same line of attack from the Republicans, Mahaffee said.
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In a head-to-head showdown, Clinton bests Trump 50 percent to 41 percent with 90 percent of all voters insisting their decision is firmly made in terms of who they plan to support.
Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson – better known as Diamond and Silk, two African-American sisters supporting Trump who frequently speak at his rallies – confirmed to CNN that the tweet referred to the late West Virginia Sen.
The meeting was closed to the press, a rare private move in an otherwise public battle over the minority vote.
In outlining his views, Trump said addressing illegal immigration is important to helping Americans find jobs.
Pressed on the question, Priebus replied: “I just don’t speak for Donald Trump”. “What do you have to lose?”
Trump has tried to sidestep these dust-ups by saying Democrats have failed minorities with their economic policies, leaving them living in poverty and attending failing schools. “You have no jobs”. The former host of “The Apprentice” went on to accuse Clinton of hiding “very, very bad” information in her emails, saying, “Maybe somebody should, in fact, ask the NSA whether or not they have the emails”, he said.
“By the way, how quickly people have forgotten that Hillary Clinton called black youth “super predators” Remember that?” The video also shows Clinton’s former Democratic rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, denouncing the phrase as “a racist term”.
The so-called “alt-right” fringe movement that has lined up behind Trump has given Clinton a effective wedge to drive between Trump and the college-educated white voters Republicans need to win national victories, Continetti argued.
“Especially since Latinos and African-Americans are strongly opposed to his policies in general”, Garcia said.
Donald Trump isn’t making it easy for top supporters and advisers, from his running mate on down, to defend him or explain some campaign positions.
But Trump was saddled with another inflammatory revelation Friday when court papers surfaced showing that an ex-wife of Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school almost a decade ago.
Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer told MSNBC Clinton was only talking about Trump and race this week to deflect attention from that controversy. “She lies, and she smears, and she paints decent Americans – you – as racists”.
“I am sure, and I am sure because I have a very strong foundation of understanding about the foundation” and the charitable work it has done, Clinton said in an interview with MSNBC on Friday. “Look at the poverty, look at the rise in poverty, look at the rise in violence”.
Would a President Hillary Clinton be able to separate her duties as leader of the nation from her personal dealings with the Clinton Foundation?
But Trump was less eager to talk about what he would do with the rest of the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S.
“It breaks all of our hearts to see it, it’s disgusting”, Trump said. “We want to come up with a really firm, but fair answer”.
Underscoring Trump’s dilemma is conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who released a book this week titled “In Trump We Trust”. “Except change his immigration policies”.
Across the Sunday news shows, a parade of Trump stand-ins, led by vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, couldn’t say whether Trump was sticking with or changing a central promise to boot the roughly 11 million people living in the US illegally, with the help of a “deportation force”.
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The schedules took on new importance this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far and found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton during the first half of her time as secretary of state had given money – either personally or through companies or groups – to the Clinton Foundation.
