“Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists”, Mr Trump predicted.
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Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway said depicting Trump as a racist is a lie.
“This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale”, Mark Burns, an African-American pastor who supports Trump, said in a statement. “She’s going to do nothing for Hispanics and African-Americans”.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton stands with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, after accepting the nomination on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 28, 2016. While campaigning in overwhelmingly white areas this week, Trump has made a bid for black voters, telling them they live in crime-ridden areas and have nothing to lose by voting for him.
Trump has rejected Clinton’s allegations, labeling her a bigot.
The comparison shows that Trump actually tweets significantly less overall than Clinton, but he does it more consistently.
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”.
It’s a movement that predates Trump, but it was his presidential campaign that brought it into the mainstream.
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. When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one exhausted argument: You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist.
“Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today”, Clinton said earlier this year about her “super-predator” remark.
The fact that questions about race and bigotry dominated the day was by itself a victory for Clinton.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Friday, Aug. 26, the Clinton Foundation was seeking other organizations to partner with as it looks to wind down some of its charitable work, but defended her work as secretary of state as independent from her family’s foundation.
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The former first lady’s lead, which dropped to 45 to 38 percent over Trump when including third party presidential candidates, came despite low favorability marks and a majority of respondents saying they don’t see her as honest. He has increased the number of minority surrogates speaking on his behalf on cable news and at his rallies, and he is planning to take trips into urban areas soon to visit churches, charter schools and small businesses in black and Latino communities.
