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”.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is associating Donald Trump’s values with those of the Ku Klux Klan.
Trump insists such attacks are the last refuge of a discredited politician.
“They keep going back to this same well, but the well has run dry”, Trump told his supporters. “Voters are used to the old game where failed politicians like Hillary Clinton falsely smear Republicans with charges of racism”.
“Calling him out on the fact that he has supporters like David Duke connected with the Ku Klux Klan who are going around and saying Donald Trump is their candidate because Donald Trump is pushing their values”, Kaine told a crowd of young students here.
Clinton released a video on Thursday ahead of her Nevada speech tying Trump to white supremacist groups.
Hillary Clinton is defending the work of her family foundation, saying the organization needs more time to ensure the continuity of their programs.
“We’re trying to do good things”, Bill said, reports ABC News.
But his new outreach comes amid his own mixed signals on his immigration plan, including whether or not he would stick with a primary campaign promise to deport 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally. The “2017” on the button suggests that prosecution of his former opponent might be a first-hundred-days agenda item for President Donald J. Trump.
Many black leaders and voters have dismissed Trump’s message – delivered to predominantly white rally audiences – as condescending and intended more to reassure undecided white voters that he’s not racist, than to actually help minority communities.
Trump has tried recently to broaden his appeal to them, hinting at a softening of his hardline position on immigration.
Republicans blasted Kaine over the comments.
“I appreciate the concerns that people have expressed, and that’s why I’ve made it clear that if I’m successful in November, we are going to be taking additional steps”, Clinton said. “To remove any questions of impropriety, a special prosecutor should be entrusted with an investigation of whether our diplomatic efforts and national security were for sale or compromised by Hillary Clinton“, Landry is quoted in the news release from the Trump campaign. Advocates of a more lenient immigration approach say that proves the hard-line position is politically untenable.
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As part of Hillary Clinton’s continuing strategy to turn the USA presidential election into a referendum on Donald Trump, the Democrat struck a heavy blow on the New Yorker in a speech on Thursday that sought to place the billionaire firmly on a far-right perch.
