Her lead continued to grow as Trump made a string of hateful and freakish comments, including insulting the Muslim-American parents of a fallen US soldier, questioning why the USA should hold up its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation obligations, dragging his feet in endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) re-election bid and encouraging Russian officials to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails. He would need to be at 15 percent in five national polls for the Commission on Presidential Debates to invite him, and he is at 10 percent in those five polls. While credible media sources have dismissed these stories as nonsense, the Trump campaign are using them as a last ditch effort to get back into the race.
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Trump has long promised to deport the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in America and has pledged to halt immigration from countries dealing with Islamist terror attacks, after previously stating that he would temporarily bar all Muslims from coming to the United States. “I go with the flow based on what the campaign wants to do”, Priebus said on “Meet the Press“, when Chuck Todd asked about Trump’s choice of Steve Bannon as his new campaign executive. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway claimed there is no mechanism for Trump’s immigration policy while Mike Pence explained that there is no policy, it’s a mechanism.
Donald Trump’s campaign has had a hard time shaking off accusations of racism. “You just don’t know what he’s going to say”.
Donna Brazile, the interim head of the Democratic National Committee, said it’s not unusual for supporters and activists to seek out private meetings and that there’s no evidence Clinton did any favors on behalf of foundation donors. “I think that’s deeply offensive”, Pence said. “What we’re trying to do is transition the program”, he said. “None of the Clintons have ever taken a salary and don’t profit from the foundation”, Craig Minassian, the Clinton Foundation’s chief communications officer, told MSNBC. “He’s changed the words that he is saying”, she said Thursday on CNN.
N.J. Gov. and Donald Trump surrogate Chris Christie speaks with ABC’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz about Donald Trump’s outreach to minority voters, especially inner city blacks.
Asked if Trump will continue to label Hillary Clinton as a “bigot”, Conway also defended him by saying, “Do you see what Donald Trump is called by almost everybody in Clinton’s world and by many supporters in the media before he gets out of bed in the morning?” And the message is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that’s something that the government should be working to try to change.
Trump expanded on the latest iteration of his policy in Iowa Saturday, suggesting deportation would be reserved for criminal elements while vowing to crack down on visas and entitlements.
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“There is a very good chance the answer could be yes”, Trump said when asked if he would deport those who have lived here peacefully but without papers.
