Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad says Donald Trump can beat Hillary Clinton in Iowa by focusing on agriculture, pointing to his support for a renewable fuel standard important to the state’s corn growers. “And this is not a simple question”, said Priebus, who’s had a hard relationship with Trump.
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Branstad’s son Eric Branstad is running Trump’s Iowa campaign.
“I am reaching out to everyone, Republicans, Democrats, independents, everyone who is as troubled as I am by the bigotry and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s campaign”, she told MSNBC, adding she was asking “fair-minded Americans to repudiate this kind of divisive demagoguery” at the November 8 election.
But his new outreach comes amid his own mixed signals on his immigration plan, including whether or not he would stick with a primary campaign promise to deport 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally.
And they didn’t bother defending his response Saturday to the killing of a mother as she walked her baby on a Chicago street.
“I do think the idea of a religious test for immigration turns off many Utahns, or at least raises concerns”, the political science professor said, while Trump’s campaign “has been defined so starkly by his hard-line stance on immigration”.
“People don’t know how well we’re doing with the Hispanics, the Latinos”, Trump said at his hotel just off the Vegas Strip. That, he said, “is a subject for the future”.
“She doesn’t care. She’s too busy raking in cash from people and rigging the system and taking the African American vote and the Hispanic vote and saying, ‘We’re going to do a great job.’ And right after the election, it’s ‘bye-bye, I’ll see you in four years'”. There has been debate within his campaign about immigrants who haven’t committed crimes beyond their immigration offenses.
Trump will probably have to clarify exactly where he stands on immigration in coming days – just the latest course correction from a candidate who sometimes seems to have no clear course.
Words, but no wheels for Donald Trump in Iowa.
In the new poll, almost 23 percent of the likely voters said they would pick neither candidate, answering “refused”, “other” or “wouldn’t vote”. “What we’re trying to do is transition the program”, he said, acknowledging that “obviously there’s a different environment now – a different media environment; a different set of criticisms and critiques”.
Unlike the new health pledge, Trump still refuses to match Clinton’s transparency by releasing his taxes. The first presidential debate is set for September 26. As Politico writes, Trump was scheduled to make a speech about immigration on August 25 in Colorado, but delayed it after he suggested he was softening his position on deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants.
The next day, he ruled out legal status, “unless they leave the country and come back”, he told CNN. He referenced the cousin of National Basketball Association player Dwayne Wade who was shot in Chicago.
Trump’s first tweet about the shooting ended this way: “Just what I have been saying”.
Several hours after firing off his first tweet on Wade, Trump offered a more somber and contrite message: “My condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family, on the loss of Nykea Aldridge”. “They are in my thoughts and prayers”.
Those are all pretty standard conservative policy points on immigration, which might reassure mainstream Republicans somewhat. 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.
He adds, “We can not, as a society, tolerate this level of violence and suffering in our own cities”.
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Johnson says on “Fox News Sunday” that his polling numbers are rising and that his campaign is spending money in many states. Find out via AP’s Election Buzz interactive.
