Republican nominee Donald Trump speaks at “Joni’s Roast and Ride” in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., August 27, 2016.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will deliver a much-anticipated speech Wednesday on immigration, an issue that has been central to the businessman’s campaign for the White House.
Last week, Trump suggested he would allow the 11 million undocumented immigrants he had promised to deport back into the country if they paid back taxes.
This comes after Trump has waffled on his immigration policy position for more than a week, specifically on his plan for dealing with undocumented immigrants already living in the U.S. You have this speech coming up on Wednesday, immigration, his signature issue, can he come up with a consistent position?
Mercieca said Trump’s simple immigration policy served its objective in the primaries, but for the general election, he needs something a little more subtle and realistic and wanted a Texas audience to approve a conclusion he had already come to. Asked if Trump still plans to create a “deportation force” that will track down everyone living in the country without permission, Pence said “we will have a mechanism” that will be “tough” but “fair”.
“We don’t want the support of people who think like David Duke”, vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said about the former Ku Klux Klan wizard, whose Louisiana campaign for the U.S. Senate has been emboldened by Trump.
“These global gangs and cartels will be a thing of the past”, he said. “Their reign of terror will be over”.
Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said the candidate has said that people who want to be in the USA legally must apply through legal means. But who Trump considers a criminal also remained unclear Sunday.
Other Trump stand-ins, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, spoke similarly, a striking indication that even they don’t know the answer to such a critical question just as Trump has promised to streamline the campaign for the grueling final stretch.
The Monmouth University poll, conducted from last Thursday to Sunday, shows Ms. Clinton leading Mr. Trump by 46 to 39 per cent.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and the main super PAC supporting her candidacy have been up on the airwaves in Nevada and other battleground states with a general election message since mid-June.
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The new Trump ad, called “Two Americas: Economy”, portrays Clinton’s policies as bad for the middle class, while promising new jobs if Trump is elected. Trump tweeted. He later sent a tweet offering his “condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family”.
