Instead of showing up at Tim Cook’s ritzy fundraiser and appearing on a Kimmel show with a 0.4 rating, she could have gone to flood ravaged Louisiana, fire-ravaged Southern California, or – if racism is really so important to her – maybe gone to Milwaukee to talk to the community there after the recent riots sparked by the police shooting of an African-American man. And the exchanges hinted at just how nasty the verbal battle between Clinton and Trump could become in the roughly 10 weeks until the general election. Clinton did not, and could not for definite political reasons, acknowledge that there is an objective social basis for a response to Trump’s right-wing populism-namely, the desperate social crisis facing broad sections of the American population due to the right-wing policies of the Democrats no less than the Republicans. Trump is fighting that image by appealing to minority voters while questioning Clinton’s own record on race issues, noting that Democrats have long controlled urban cities where many African-Americans continue to live in poverty.
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Hundreds of Hillary Clinton supporters lined up to hear her deliver a speech about the “alt-right” and Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. He has polled poorly with minorities and has been heavily criticised for proposals including suspending Muslim immigration to protect national security. She stopped short of calling Trump and his advisors outright racist.
This served as a nice lead-in to Clinton addressing the alt-right movement, which has grown frightful leathery wings and taken flight in this election year, encouraged by Trump’s support.
“Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the party to get out”. Echoing this very effective DNC ad released Tuesday, Clinton read a few headlines, from “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” to “Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage”.
In the 2008 primary elections, Hillary Clinton birthed birtherism by relying on an outlined campaign strategy to highlight Obama’s “lack of American roots”.
Speaking at a rally in Reno, Nevada, Clinton focused on Trump’s divisive, racist comments, telling voters, “There’s no other Donald Trump”.
“It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook”, he said. Her policies-they’re her policies, she comes out with the policies and others that believe like she does also. “They keep saying it. It’s a exhausted, disgusting argument, and it’s so totally predictable”.
Trump framed Clinton’s speech not as an attack on him but as an attack on the “millions of decent Americans” who support him.
“We’ve always had great relationships with the African American community and I’ve made it such a focal point”, Trump said on Thursday before a meeting at his NY headquarters with black and Hispanic Republicans. She and her top aides have spent several days trying to fend off new questions about foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
The Clinton/KKK ad begins with footage of the imperial wizard of the Rebel Brigade of the Knights of the KKK being interviewed by Chris Thomas with NBC.
In an attempt to again parse his words, Cooper asked if Trump is specifically implying that she has hatred toward African-Americans.
Clinton released a web video on Thursday ahead of her Nevada speech tying Trump to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.
“This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale”, Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns said in a statement. “I think she has been extremely bad for Hispanics”.
The line was included in prepared remarks distributed to reporters, and it seemed to catch many in the white crowd by surprise, triggering a delayed and somewhat brief round of cheers and applause.
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Clinton paints an ominous picture of what could be under a Trump presidency: a nation run by a megalomaniacal racist who traffics in hate and white nationalism while only looking out for himself.
