Speaking in New Hampshire later on Thursday, the real estate mogul attacked Clinton, saying she was accusing “the decent Americans who support this campaign, your campaign, of being racists, which we’re not”.
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Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has been claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.
“When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one exhausted argument: You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist”, Trump told a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire. “Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, she said.
“It s a exhausted, disgusting argument”.
“Everywhere I go, people tell me how concerned they are by the divisive rhetoric coming from my opponent in this election”, Clinton said at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada.
He added: “She lies and she smears and she paints decent Americans as racists”.
Clinton’s Reno, Nevada speech was a show-stopping denouncement of Trump’s worst ills during the campaign, from branding undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists” on day one to tweeting a Star of David, being slow to repudiate an endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and, most recently, hiring a new campaign CEO who ran the far-right news site Breitbart.
In a tense exchange on CNN Thursday night, Anderson Cooper confronted Donald Trump over his use of the word “bigot” to describe Hillary Clinton.
Trump also said that he’ll give an immigration speech “over the next week or two” to clarify his wavering stance on the issue.
Chaffetz is the latest Republican to call for Trump to disclose his tax returns, a long-standing tradition for presidential candidates.
Clinton leads Trump 51 percent to 41 percent among likely American voters, according to poll. “I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world”.
Responding to Trump’s immigration plan to step up deportation, the Clinton campaign said his extreme right-wing agenda “is fueling a risky movement of hatred across the country”.
Clinton did not address any of the accusations about her family foundation in her remarks.
In comments broadcast on Fox News on Wednesday night, Trump said he would be willing to work with immigrants who have abided by USA laws while living in the country, backing away from his insistence during the primaries that he would try to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants.
At a MS rally Wednesday, he escalated his pushback, calling Clinton “a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future”.
“People are hearing the message”, he said.
“In 2008, John McCain told his own supporters that they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat”, she said.
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She said that it is “absurd” to suggest that her meetings with people like “the late, great Elie Wiesel or Melinda Gates or the Nobel Prize victor Muhammad Yunus were somehow due to connections with the foundation instead of their status as highly respected global leaders”.
