Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters after speaking at a rally at the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Tuesday, July 19, 2016.
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Suddenly he was urging African-American voters from a distance to give him a chance with a grim “what-have-you-got-to-lose” pitch.
The fact that it isn’t Labor Day yet and Republicans are already planning for how they will obstruct Hillary Clinton after she wins the White House is telling.
Whitehouse said his Republican colleagues have reason to be wary of how a president Trump would interact with Congress.
Trump’s immigration flip-flop saga continues, as he maintained Thursday that those in the US illegally would have to leave in order to earn legal status and that he was opposed to a path to citizenship.
Clinton’s use of a private e-mail system as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation’s ties to governments and corporations that have business with the US have come under increasing attack by Republican nominee Donald Trump after the release this week of e-mail exchanges between a former Clinton Foundation executive and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. “We’re going to be testing (transferring responsibility), and that’s why the Clinton Foundation is looking for partners. not necessarily the same partner for all of the work”. “She’s going to do nothing for Hispanics and African-Americans”.
Clinton spoke in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
She accused Mr Trump of building his campaign off “prejudice and paranoia”, positioning his entrance into the mainstream political process as unprecedented and painted a picture of dark shadows cast over the future of the country.
“This is someone retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name @WhiteGenocideTM”, she said.
The praise she doled out to Republican politicians may seem magnanimous, but it was also created to make their lives a hell, since it drives a wedge between Trump’s white nationalist base and suburban college-educated Republicans. Trump could have responded in many ways to this onslaught, but he chose to take the approach of a 5-year-old who has been called a name and simply shouts the same name back – “I’m not a bigot, you’re a bigot!”
Hillary Clinton made one of the most pointed speeches of her campaign in Reno yon Tuesday, accusing Donald Trump of embracing the ideologies of hate groups.
Clinton declined to directly call Trump a racist, but rattled off a list of incidences she says points to racial discrimination.
Mrs Clinton has a lead in both national and swing-state polls, but Mr Trump is now in the middle of attempting – sometimes awkwardly – to smooth out some of his sharper rhetoric and back away from controversial stances. She’s praised former Republican presidential candidates John McCain and Bob Dole, and former President George W. Bush, for taking decisive steps to counter racism and anti-Muslim sentiment.
She said Friday that candidates can reasonably disagree on how to run the country, “but that’s not the campaign that Donald Trump has been running, and I am reaching out and asking fair-minded Americans to repudiate this kind of divisive demagoguery”.
On Thursday, Trump tried to get ahead of the Democratic nominee, addressing a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire, minutes before Clinton spoke.
“This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump”, Clinton said, referring to Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and championed the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution during the Civil War that led to the abolition of slavery in 1865.
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“I would appreciate that, because if you look at everything the (Clinton) Foundation did, it’s very much in line with what our government has done”.
