In a tweet shortly after Clinton wrapped up her speech in the swing state of Nevada, Trump said she “is pandering to the worst instincts in our society”.
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Clinton spoke in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
“The truth of the matter is, Donald Trump is laying out in that tweet – in short form; it is, what, 140 characters – that we have a choice to make as a country”, Pence said.
Trump’s retweet and his latest appeals to black voters capped off a week of increasingly ugly and racially charged accusations between the two leading presidential candidates, during which Trump called Clinton a “bigot” and the Democratic nominee charged that Trump’s campaign was built on “prejudice and paranoia” while also tying him to the KKK.
Our country is facing a number of challenges, and Donald Trump is far better prepared than Hillary Clinton to move this country in the right direction.
On Thursday, the NY real estate mogul-turned-politician criticized Clinton before her speech, saying she and her party had let black Americans down with failed economic policies and were falsely labeling Republicans as bigoted. The AP said it focused on her meetings with outsiders because those were more discretionary, as Clinton would normally meet with federal officials and foreign officials as part of her job.
Asked again if hatred is at the core of Clinton’s alleged shortcomings, Trump suggested that she might also just be lazy.
The new investment comes amid signs that Trump’s lagging poll numbers may be improving against Clinton’s following a campaign reboot. “Don’t be fooled” by Trumps efforts to rebrand, she told voters at a speech in Reno, saying the country faced a “moment of reckoning”.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, waves with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during a town hall campaign event in Hickory, North Carolina.
“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.
“The fact that you see Democrats and Hillary Clinton and her running mate rolling out the same old playbook of racial divisiveness sounds a little bit to me like an act of desperation”. “I want you to hear these words, and remember these words: Shame on you”.
The Republican nominee retweeted a supporter’s post that the Democratic nominee said a KKK member was her mentor. “‘Super predators.’ And they were very, very insulted, but now people have forgotten”, Trump said. He claims that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.
Kaine made some of his most pointed comments to date about Trump at a voter registration rally at Florida A&M University, a historically black university in Tallahassee.
Cornell William Brooks, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told C-SPAN’s Newsmakers on Thursday that Trump has not reached out to the organisation for any reason. “More importantly, you don’t get to the White House without addressing the nation’s civil rights agenda”.
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Recently, Trump made his ties to the Alt-Right movement much more explicit by hiring Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart – a longtime safe space for white-supremacist ideology – as campaign CEO.
