When people started saying he was temperamentally unfit, he called Hillary the same.
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Trump held the meeting around a conference table in his 25th floor office as he preparing to release his position on homeland security, said King (R-Seaford), a member of the House Intelligence Committee and chairman of the House counterterrorism subcommittee.
Instead, he accused Clinton of “bigotry” by seeing “communities of color. only as votes” and “not as individual human beings”.
Her remarks came shortly after Trump, struggling to steady his troubled campaign, announced a new chief executive officer and campaign manager.
Unlike his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Trump did not address African-Americans frustrations with the racially disproportionate effects of law enforcement.
Donald Trump is calling for “extreme” vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, but he’s offering few specifics about how that might work, how long it might last or how taxpayers would foot the bill.
Clinton is visiting new John Marshall High School in Cleveland, one that “represents the type of investment we should be making, not sacrificing by giving further tax breaks to those at the top, so that the opportunities afforded to students at John Marshall can be afforded to all students – regardless of ZIP code or background”, said the official who provided the information in advance of Clinton’s speech this afternoon only on the condition of anonymity.
While Trump has largely avoided outreach to African Americans and has become a sharply polarizing figure among Latinos and other minorities, Clinton is counting on those same voters to be reliable constituencies for her in the fall.
Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighbourhood erupted in chaos Saturday night after a black suspect was fatally shot by a black Milwaukee police officer.
Trump also accused Clinton and Democrats of deepening racial divides and fostering “the unsafe anti-police atmosphere in America”.
Clinton won the Democratic nomination in part thanks to her large victory margins among minorities in almost every state, including overwhelming support from African-Americans in the South. But among Trump voters, the figure is 61 percent in favor of secession, while only 29 percent oppose an act that would, if it escaped the realms of fantasy, instigate a new Civil War.
Among those present were Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and Inspector Edward Bailey.
The shooting of Smith was likely justified, Trump argued in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday morning. “If it is true, people shouldn’t be rioting”, he added. He said Trump is continuing to raise millions of dollars while traveling to key battleground states – Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida – and remains personally “very connected” to the operations of his campaign.
While polls have shown Clinton building a lead following the Philadelphia convention, Democrats are fearful that a depressed voter turnout might diminish support among the minority, young and female voters who powered Obama to two victories.
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Clinton said at the voter registration event at a Philadelphia high school that she’s “not taking anybody anywhere for granted” in the race for the White House, saying the stakes “could not be higher”.
