A new round of attack ads are taking aim at Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton‘s comments about minorities. But the mixed signals from the Trump campaign aren’t winning over immigration advocates. In Las Vegas, Trump met Friday with two dozen Latino supporters to discuss strategies for boosting Hispanic turnout in the swing state.
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The meeting was closed to the press, a rare private move in an otherwise public battle over the minority vote. Your schools are no good.
“It’s what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs”.
Trump blasted Clinton over the remark in an Instagram video and a tweet. Bernie Sanders, denouncing the phrase as “a racist term”.
Clinton ended her Thursday speech by praising Bob Dole, George W. Bush and John McCain, all of whom, in critical moments, stood up to bigoted elements on the right.
The campaign said the doctor’s two-page letter Clinton released has much more detail and specifics, like cholesterol levels, medical history and medications compared to Trump’s.
Trump also previewed his immigration plans at the Iowa event, saying that he was developing an “exit-entry tracking system to ensure those who overstay their visas, that they’re quickly removed”.
“She’s totally bigoted, there’s no question”, Trump told CNN.
In more recent days, Trump has attempted to salvage his image with appeals nominally aimed at African Americans.
“I think that’s what [Trump] was suggesting”, Sessions told reporters earlier this week. “Look at the poverty, look at the rise in poverty, look at the rise in violence”.
Clinton has said that Trump and his supporters have taken on extremist views, casting the race in a Friday MSNBC interview as “not a normal choice between a Republican and a Democrat”.
This, while Trump tries to clarify his policy on how to handle the 11 million undocumented workers living in the country. “We are going to end this war on the American farmer”. “We’re going to stop certain people, criminal elements from coming in, and then we shall see what we shall see”.
In it she observes, “There’s nothing Trump can do that won’t be forgiven”.
On Saturday, Trump was expected to speak at the Iowa State Fair, and his campaign said a detailed immigration proposal will be announced within weeks.
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Hillary Clinton has arrived at an Federal Bureau of Investigation facility in White Plains, New York, for her first national security briefing as the Democratic presidential nominee. The AP’s lawyers asked the department late Friday to hasten its efforts and provide all of her minute-by-minute schedules by October 15.
