In a major speech Thursday, Hillary Clinton linked Donald Trump to bigoted elements on the fringe of American politics.
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Trump is meeting with Hispanic business owners in Las Vegas as a part of his weeklong outreach to minority voters – a group Trump said Clinton and the Democrats have abandoned.
The influential liberal magazine further attributes the low Jewish support for Trump to the Republican nominee’s affiliation with “white supremacist”, his reported reputation “to have kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside”, as well as his campaign pledge in late 2015 to support the “Merry Christmas” slogan during end-of-the-year holiday season instead of the more politically correct “happy holidays” slogan, preferred by Jewish institutions.
Trump said the Clinton attacks were not only an assault on him, but on all his supporters – people, he said, who want strong borders and security.
Casting her candidacy as a nonracist alternative, Clinton praised black poet Maya Angelou as “a great American who I admire very much” and quoted an “old Mexican proverb” in order to argue that Trump had revealed his true colors with his provocative comments and his associations with fringe figures.
“Don’t be fooled” by Trumps efforts to rebrand, she told voters at a speech in Reno, saying the country faced a “moment of reckoning”.
Ms Clinton did not address any of the accusations about her family foundation in her remarks.
He added, “How can someone who has so many unaddressed questions about her own truthiness serve the highest office in this land?”
Trump countered her rhetoric yesterday by releasing a video showing Clinton in the 1990s discussing a crime bill and referring to “super-predators”, or at-risk youth she said needed to be brought under control.
Trump has tried recently to broaden his appeal to them, hinting at a softening of his hardline position on immigration. Tim Kaine, escalated his attacks on Donald Trump on Friday, calling him a bigot and telling a crowd at a historically black college in Florida that he espouses Ku Klux Klan values.
“You’re living in poverty”.
“We’re going to make sure we don’t undermine the excellence and the results”, she says.
“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. The Clinton campaign released a new ad hitting Trump’s recent pitch to African Americans. In February, Clinton told The Washington Post that the words were a mistake: “Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today”.
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Polls often show large majorities support letting people in the country illegally stay here. Advocates of a more lenient immigration approach say that proves the hard-line position is politically untenable.
