But Kaine also linked Republican presidential contender Donald Trump to racism at Florida’s only public, historically black university – picking up a theme aired this week by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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And Dan Holler, communications director at the conservative Heritage Action for America, says that he sees no reason for Republicans to do anything she wants.
Clinton gave the speech on Thursday, attempting to put the movement’s alleged racist ideology into the mainstream consciousness.
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They found that 83 percent of Trump voters would describe Hillary Clinton as evil. The video also shows Clinton’s former Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, denouncing the phrase as “a racist term”.
Attempting to blunt Trump’s latest appeals to minority voters, Clinton on Thursday likened the NY billionaire’s campaign rhetoric to a mainstream hate movement.
Clinton called Trump’s hiring of Stephen Bannon a “de factor merger between Breitbart and the Trump campaign” and said it constituted a “landmark achievement” for the alt-right, a “fringe element” that had “effectively taken over the Republican party”.
In comments broadcast on Fox News on Wednesday night, Trump said he would be willing to work with immigrants who have abided by U.S. laws while living in the country, backing away from his insistence during the primaries that he would try to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants. The Trump logic isn’t that the polls are biased, but that the polls aren’t counting these huge groups of invisible Trump supporters.
Some leaders of the so-called alt-right movement appear to be happy that Hillary Clinton called them out in a major speech attacking Donald Trump. Ibtihaj Muhammad, African-American Muslim from New Jersey, won the bronze medal in fencing, with grace and skill. I think she has been extremely bad for Hispanics. “Look at the poverty, look at the rise in poverty, look at the rise in violence”.
As this presidential campaign reached a still-higher, nastier pitch, the billionaire businessman returned again to New Hampshire Thursday, vowing not to drop the fighting spirit that’s taken him this far.
During the Republican primary, Trump had promised to deport the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally.
“We’re going to secure the border like it’s never been secured before”, Trump told Fox News. “Except change his immigration policies”. The answer is: “everything”, campaign officials said in a statement.
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Fox News shouted a question to her about her ties to the foundation on the ropeline, but she ignored it.
