Picking up where President Obama left off at the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton praised the way Republicans used to do things during a speech Thursday, effectively distinguishing the GOP of the last two decades with the one now led by Donald Trump. Republican Donald Trump received his briefing earlier this month, a customary move for major party nominees but one that has been the subject of a political tussle during the campaign.
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As President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, Clinton held a high security clearance and received a copy of the President’s Daily Brief – the highest-level USA intelligence document that includes sensitive intelligence and analysis from around the world.
Trump, who trails Clinton in national opinion polls, has polled poorly with minorities and has been criticized for his proposals on immigration, which include deporting millions of undocumented foreigners, building a wall along the Mexican border, and suspending Muslim immigration to shore up national security.
“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”. “Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones”.
Trump has rejected Clinton’s allegations, labeling her a bigot.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is fundraising in Silicon Valley this week, an area that’s been very good to her.
But Trump was saddled with another inflammatory revelation Friday when court papers surfaced showing that an ex-wife of Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school almost a decade ago. The video was released on the same day that Clinton was scheduled to give a speech on “alt-right”.
Trump tried to get ahead of the Democratic nominee, addressing a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire just minutes before Clinton.
“It’s a exhausted, disgusting argument, and it’s so totally predictable”.
But, Clinton argued Thursday, Trump has been amplifying more than just his own voice. Ben Carson during Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s roundtable meeting with the Republican Leadership Initiative in his offices at Trump Tower in New York, Thursday, .
The commercial then reminds viewers – as Clinton did in a speech Thursday in Reno, Nevada – that Trump’s real estate company was once charged with discriminating African Americans and breaking federal law.
A Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation poll for the week beginning August 15 found Clinton beatingTrump among Hispanic voters by 15 percentage points – 45 percent to 30 percent – and by 57 percentage points among black voters – 69 percent to 12 percent.
“Trump is like a vegetarian restaurant putting out a sign that they don’t hate steak lovers”. Trump also said he wasn’t familiar with Baldasaro’s incendiary remarks, which were extensively covered by many media outlets at the time.
He also met on Thursday morning with black and Hispanic Republicans at his NY headquarters. “This is created to make them feel like he is doing minority outreach even though the messaging is completely off-target”, said David Kochel, the former chief strategist for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign. “He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties”, she said and added “there’s been a steady stream of bigotry” coming from the campaign since its launch a year ago.
“As we have expressed numerous times, your rhetoric of relentless attacks against our community is an issue of serious concern and has had a significant impact, fueling an alarming trend in our nation”, the letter reads.
In that speech, she accused Trump of unleashing a “radical fringe” within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists.
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In a blistering speech, Clinton referenced a lawsuit accusing Trump of refusing to rent to black and hispanic tenants, scoffed at his initiation of the “birther” movement that asked if Barack Obama had been born in the United States and questioned his refusal to disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
