“African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”
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Speaking Saturday in Des Moines following Sen. Joni Mitchell’s annual Roast and Ride event, Trump began by noting “there are millions of American-Americans in this country who have succeeded” but stressed that government has failed black communities, with nearly 40 percent of African-American children living in poverty.
Trump also spoke of the shooting in Chicago of National Basketball Association star Dwyane Wade’s cousin Friday.
“I told him that there are children who are Jewish at [a competing school], and he asked me what the percentage was. This shouldn’t happen in America”.
Trump says that as a builder and a father, he hates seeing “the deplorable conditions in many of our inner cities”.
He adds, “We can not, as a society, tolerate this level of violence and suffering in our own cities”.
Trump has previously been criticized for invoking anti-Semitic stereotypes, including tweeting out an anti-Hillary Clinton image that included a Star of David atop a pile of money.
Trump countered her rhetoric on Friday 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. The video also shows Clintons former Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, denouncing the phrase as a racist term. Clinton has since apologized for using the term.
The wealthy NY populist has chosen a risky line of attack against Clinton, accusing her of being not just corrupt but a cynical and uncaring racist.
Trump also says Clinton is trying to distract from questions swirling around donations to The Clinton Foundation and her exclusive use of her private email servers for official business while secretary of state.
In short, support from the less-educated whites of the “Rust Belt” states hit so hard by factory closings and job outsourcing will not be enough to help Trump overcome Clinton’s big edge among minorities and educated whites.
Trump’s embrace of this ideology presented by the “alt-right” was permanently cemented by hiring Stephen Bannon, the former head of a leading “alt-right” website Breitbart.com, as his campaign CEO.
And, Trump’s proposal to “Build that wall”, drew approval from 91 percent of his loyal supporters.
Trump tells the crowd, which includes many farmers, that “we are going to end this war on the American farmer”.
Trump and his allies have been questioning the health of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
When by a reporter asked if he thinks Trump is a racist, Kaine said he didn’t know Trump. Also, President Trump would make sure they didn’t get shot walking down the street. “Just what I have been saying”.
The poll also revealed that Clinton leads heavily among women and non-white voters, with women backing the Democratic candidate 60-36 percent. “They are in my thoughts and prayers”, he wrote.
It is not surprising Trump embraces the “alt-right” because the presidential campaign started by calling Mexicans criminals, drug traffickers and rapists, Clinton points out.
Arizona: This state gave Trump some good news, though it wasn’t totally surprising since it tends to vote Republican.
Branstad’s son Eric Branstad is running Trump’s Iowa campaign.
Polls show a tight race in Iowa.
August is silly season in American politics, and the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are making it one for the ages. “We’re doing really well”. But for the ride, Ernst will be joined by veterans and soldiers – not the Republican presidential nominee.
Trump lost the lead-off Iowa caucuses to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. But much of the state’s Republican establishment has since rallied around Trump.
But in recent days, he has suggested he might be “softening”.
Clinton met Saturday for more than two hours with intelligence officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in White Plains, New York, for her first overview of the major threats facing the nation around the globe since becoming the Democratic nominee.
The former secretary of state routinely received such briefings when she was in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet.
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But the briefing Saturday in suburban NY is her first since she became her party’s nominee.
