Trump himself accused Clinton of “trying to smear” his supporters.
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A recent national poll revealed Hillary Clinton’s lead against Donald Trump has gotten smaller.
Donald Trump’s campaign may not think the polls are correct and that their candidate will surge after “undercover” voters come out, but in the meantime, here’s what was happening in the polling world with the public voters.
Pence also hit Clinton running mate Tim Kaine for comparing Trump’s values to those of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist David Duke, and accused Clinton – who said last week that Trump built his campaign on prejudice – of casting Trump’s supporters as bigots.
With these moves, though spoken in a more measured manner than usual and with the aid of a teleprompter, Trump tried to make it clear that his immigration message is a tough as ever in a week when he spoke of a possible softening in this area as a strategy for attracting Hispanic voters.
Meanwhile, Trump and Clinton also sparred over who would be a better advocate for African Americans and other minorities, and Trump hinted he could soften his hard-line stance on immigration.
The White House hopeful has been more disciplined in form, reading from prepared speeches and focusing his fire on his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, pounding away at the theme that donors to the Clinton Foundation charity were given special access to the then-secretary of state and her aides.
The wealthy NY populist has chosen a risky line of attack against Clinton, accusing her of being not just corrupt but a cynical and uncaring racist.
“The truth of the matter is, Donald Trump is laying out in that tweet – in short form; it is, what, 140 characters – that we have a choice to make as a country”, Pence said.
“American workers are forced to compete now with people that are in our country illegally”, she said.
The ad shows video of Trump’s controversial pitch to black voters, in which the Republican candidate urges them to support him by asking, “What do you have to lose?”
The poll, which surveyed 1,498 likely voters nationwide from August 18 to August 24, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. Once third-party candidates were involved, the race became closer-48% of millennials said they would vote for Clinton, 24% for Trump, 16% for Libertarian Gary Johnson and 11% for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. “Their policies have produced only more poverty, total joblessness, and failing schools”, Trump said Thursday in New Hampshire. In February, Clinton told The Washington Post that the words were a mistake: “Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today”.
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And in the course of just a few days, Trump has argued that deportations should focus on those who commit crimes, veering into the same territory as President Barack Obama and Clinton. 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.
