“It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook”, he added.
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“Hillary Clinton is giving a speech about us today”, he continued.
“The pattern is in the online surveys, even if you control for demographics, Trump does three to nine points better than in telephone surveys”, Lake explained.
Instead of being frustrated by Clinton’s assertions that the movement is racist and unsafe, leaders within the group – some of whom were live-tweeting the speech – said they appreciated the “free publicity”, and that Clinton was, as they put it, “doing our work for us”.
Clinton used unusually tough language during her speech in Reno, Nevada, detailing a history of what she said were Trump’s discriminatory actions, including the fact that he had been sued as a young developer for failing to rent to black and Latino tenants.
When asked if he believed Clinton personally hated black people, Trump said, “Her policies are bigoted because she knows they’re not going to work”. We can not let this happen. Rasmussen’s polls lean (+2) for Republicans, so if they have Hillary Clinton with a four-point lead, her lead is probably at least six points, which also happens to be the margin that Clinton leads Trump by in the Real Clear Politics national polling average.
“He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties”, she said.
The poll average has Clinton at 48.4 percent and Trump at 42.1 percent.
The billionaire businessman rejected Clinton’s allegations of racism, defending his hard-line approach to immigration and accusing her of painting “decent Americans as racists”. The conservative group Judicial Watch released emails earlier this week showing that a foundation official reached out to Clinton’s State Department for favors.
“It’s got to be everybody or we don’t have a great country”, Mr. Trump said.
However, he reiterated on Thursday that he would build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it.
Trump has toned down some of his rhetoric regarding deporting all of those in the USA illegally, focusing of late on only sending the criminals back home.
He said on Thursday he would deliver an immigration speech detailing his updated positions at a later date, after canceling previous plans to address the issue. Clinton has said she regrets the remarks.
And with this fourth trip to New Hampshire since wrapping up the nomination, Trump insisted New Hampshire’s four electoral votes remain “very, very important”. She also accused Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader who attended a rally with Mr Trump, of stoking “right-wing nationalism”.
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Meanwhile, Trump continues to send mixed signals on immigration.
