Trump appeared Tuesday night at what seemed to be a setting for a more typical rally in West Bend, Wisc., but he mostly stuck to the script in what the campaign billed as a speech on “law and order”, in which he talked about violence in cities, along with common themes about what the GOP nominee views as a “rigged” political system.
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Trump told supporters that African-American neighborhoods, and many neighborhoods in general, have suffered greatly under the economic policies of the Obama administration.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tried to deliver an unexpected pitch to African-American voters across the country on Tuesday, by accusing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of bigotry and promising more police in black communities to make them safer.
Clinton, while speaking at a rally on Monday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had said that the Milwaukee protests following the shooting death of an armed African-American man, Sylville Smith, by an African-American police officer show America has “urgent work to do to rebuild trust between police and communities”.
But as he has fallen perilously behind Clinton since the conventions, amid weeks of controversy that have brought negative attention from the media, Republicans have implored Trump’s campaign to change course.
A source familiar with the candidate’s thinking said Trump has become increasing frustrated by the grim poll numbers, his advisors’ attempts to moderate his style and what he views as disloyalty from Republicans who failed to come to his aid.
Trump seized on this, too, and connected the looters and lawless to Clinton. “There are two names, and only two names that will be on the ballot on November 8th who can be elected the next President of the United States”.
Details of the new pecking order were hashed out at a lengthy senior staff meeting at Trump Tower Tuesday while Trump was on the road.
Turning to the U.S. Olympic team, she said, “Team USA is showing the world what this country stands for”.
Trump told Fox News that the shooting in Milwaukee may have occurred because the officer had a gun to his head.
Trump’s denigration of the family of a fallen Muslim American soldier was seen by many as a monumental campaign misstep. I think that, who can have a problem with that? Trump said in an excerpt of the interview, aired Tuesday.
The Clinton camp has been so confident in the battleground states of Virginia and Colorado that she pulled her television advertisements at the start of the month – a move some experts say should be a signal for the Trump camp to step up its efforts.
“It’s time to have school choice, merit pay for teachers and to end the tenure policies that hurt good teachers and reward bad teachers”, Trump said. Breitbart has also actively promoted false conspiracy theories about Clinton, some that have then made their way into Trump’s remarks. Clinton’s campaign has spent roughly $52 million, while Trump’s campaign has spent $0, according to NBC News. During Trump’s campaign, he’s said that many Mexicans are rapists, feuded with the Muslim-American parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq and proposed to suspend immigration by Muslims and people from “terror countries”.
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He also challenged Clinton’s fitness to be president, declaring she lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on the extremists.
