Hillary Clinton vigorously defended her family’s foundation against Donald Trump’s criticism on Friday and declared she’s confident there will be no major further accusations involving the foundation, her emails or anything else that could undermine her chances of defeating him in November.
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But as Trump has fallen behind Democrat Hillary Clinton in the polls, he has apparently begun to scale back his anti-illegal immigration rhetoric.
“People don’t know how well we’re doing with the Hispanics, the Latinos”, Trump said at his hotel just off the Vegas Strip. On Wednesday, Trump had called Clinton “a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future”.
“When it was 1.2, they thought it was a catastrophe”, Trump says. “@CNN, she forgot how she said a KKK member was her mentor”, Trump tweeted Saturday”. The Clinton campaign released a new ad hitting Trump’s recent pitch to African Americans.
For the alternative-right leaders, the attention from the Democratic presidential nominee was a moment in the political spotlight that offered a new level of credibility. But Kaine said the Republican presidential candidate has clearly made “bigoted” comments.
Jared Taylor, editor of the white nationalist publication American Renaissance, live-tweeted Clinton’s remarks, questioning her praise of establishment Republicans and anticipating her discussion of his community.
Arizona: This state gave Trump some good news, though it wasn’t totally surprising since it tends to vote Republican.
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.
In a show of unity with the mainstream Republican Party, Trump was joined on stage by many of Iowa’s top lawmakers, including Ernst, Governor Terry Branstad and Representative Steve King.
The campaign says the 30-second spot is set to run on cable channels across Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The competing appearances earlier this month highlight an oft-overlooked political reality: The “religious vote” is vast and complex, and it extends beyond generalizations about “social conservatives” who side with Republicans and black Protestant churches whose pastors and parishioners opt almost unanimously for Democrats.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway about the 11 million undocumented immigrants already here, and she replied, “We need to find the mechanism that works and that is fair”. She said the foundation’s charitable programs has been “in line with American interests and values” and must continue, perhaps through partnerships with other organizations.
Clinton spoke in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. If this is indeed Trump’s revised policy, he now advocates the same basic approach as the one laid out in the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” reform bill passed three years ago by the Senate – which immigration hard-liners derided as amnesty.
Polls show the race is a virtual dead heat there… Majorities in Republican primary states told pollsters they backed letting immigrants stay but also voted for Trump. Yes, there is the regular chant from many on both sides that reporters are biased, that coverage is inaccurate and that facts get twisted between the candidates’ lips and the ears and eyeballs of voters.
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As The Post notes, Trump also spent the dog days of August trying to fill his coffers as he held about two-dozen events with big-shot donors. Those who want to limit immigration argue that it mainly reflects Trump’s erratic nature.
