The Democratic presidential nominee, in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, defended the Clinton Foundation, saying the charitable work it has conducted has changed lives for the better and is in keeping with American values.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event at Truckee Meadows Community College, in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. “If you look at what’s happening to the inner cities, you look at what’s happening to African-Americans and Hispanics in this country, where she talks all the time”. “Even trying to negotiate with partner groups takes a lot of serious effort”, Clinton said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. In that speech, she accused Trump of unleashing a “radical fringe” within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists. With just weeks before the first early voting, Trump faces the urgent task of revamping his image to win over those skeptical of his candidacy.
Clinton is also targeting moderate voters – and especially Republicans – by depicting Trump and his supporters as extremists, and casting the race as “not a normal choice between a Republican and a Democrat”.
“She is a bigot”, Trump said in the interview. 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.
And Dan Holler, communications director at the conservative Heritage Action for America, says that he sees no reason for Republicans to do anything she wants.
Clinton added that she went “above and beyond” the law by disclosing donors to the foundation voluntarily.
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.
Clinton called the work her foundation has done “transformational” and noted that her husband teamed up with former President George W. Bush in the effort to bring down the costs of AIDS medication.
Polls show the questions swirling around the foundation and her use of a private email server have badly damaged her personal favorability numbers, though Donald Trump’s feckless and undisciplined campaign has given her a clear lead in the presidential election.
Trump tried to get ahead of the Democratic nominee, addressing a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire, minutes before Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists”, Trump said.
Trump’s comments in a Fox News town hall surprised supporters and opponents of immigration reform in the Republican Party.
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The Aug. 22-25 opinion poll found that 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton ahead of the November 8 presidential election, while 36 percent supported Trump. “He provided a point-by-point defense of some of his most controversial stances – including blocking refugees from entering the country, cracking down on illegal immigration and intensifying policing – saying that it is not racist, Islamophobic or hard-hearted to want to keep Americans safe”.
