Rebuilding America Now, the main super PAC backing Donald Trump, is returning to the television airwaves amid a major shift in strategy about how it plans to back the GOP nominee.
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Recent surveys show Republican voters moving toward Trump in key states as the race tightens, despite her persistent efforts to court Republicans by painting their nominee as outside the mainstream of their party. But not all Republicans were pleased.
Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence earned the praise of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke after the former refused to call him “deplorable”, as reported by The Hill.
Speaking at a NY fundraiser, Clinton had said that “to just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables'”. Instead of 2,000 people, Trump supporters numbered closer to two dozen.
But Duke told BuzzFeed News on Monday that he was pleased that Pence declined to call him “deplorable”.
“Our vision of hope stands in stark contrast to my opponent’s campaign of hate”, Trump said. She looks down on the carpenters, plumbers, electricians, lawyers and accountants. Last Tuesday, Trump appeared at a rally in Greenville, where he promised to bring jobs back to North Carolina.
The Trump campaign has focused heavily on the “deplorables” theme as a way to paint Clinton as elitist and out-of-touch, but it has also stumbled into its own problems with the issue.
“My wife and I represent non-deplorable people”, one supporter said.
A spokesman for Duke, who is running for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate seat, had no immediate comment Tuesday.
“Donald Trump has denounced David Duke repeatedly”, Pence tells Blitzer. Here’s the partial quote in question: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”.
So why is the world making such a big deal about 68-year-old Clinton feeling a bit weak, when it’s actually surprisingly common for presidents to have such incidents?
Trump will address military members less than a week after saying US generals “have been reduced to rubble” last Wednesday at an NBC forum called “Commander in Chief”.
For the record, the definition of “deplorable” is “deserving strong condemnation” – a phrase that would seem to accurately describe the former leader of America’s most notoriously hateful group. What Hillary Clinton did Friday night was shocking. “It’s ridiculous that they attack me because of my involvement in that non-violent klan four decades ago”.
Actually, Trump’s alleged rejection of Duke is much less certain than Pence claims.
The malevolent genius of this approach is that Hillary Clinton has been able to bat away successive controversies – Benghazi, those pesky lesser-spotted emails, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation essentially calling her a liar – by simply declaring them either irrelevant or merely obscuring policy issues which voters shouldn’t be distracted by.
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“When somebody gifts you an issue, then you go ahead and run with it”, he said. “I just don’t understand”.
