On Thursday, the term “alt-right” entered the 2016 spotlight like never before.
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Responding to Trump’s immigration plan to step up deportation, the Clinton campaign said his extreme right-wing agenda “is fueling a risky movement of hatred across the country”. Then Trump denied he was alt-right. Hillary Clinton delivered a speech about republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s policies.
Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments.
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Trump did the same with Clinton in a post on Instagram. Trump: You mean these decent people?
On Friday, Clinton told “Morning Joe” she “absolutely” is reaching out to “everyone” who is as troubled as she is by the “bigotry and divisiveness of Trump’s campaign”.
In a speech at Reno in Nevada, the US Democratic presidential candidate blasted her conservative rival as a divisive figure stoking racist groups.
“Hillary with her emails, I just don’t trust her”, Sheri LaValley, a 51-year-old compliance said from Brookfield, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Republican opponent Donald Trump has accused Clinton of improperly using her former position as secretary of state to bring in big contributions to the foundation from people and corporations seeking access.
Trump called the ad shameful.
Trump, in his Twitter account, said that Clinton is merely leveraging from the issue to get African-American voters, accusing her of being “all talk and no action”.
Mark Burns, an African-American pastor and Trump surrogate, blasted Clinton for “tying the Trump Campaign with horrific racial images”.
“They keep going back to this same well, but the well has run dry”, Trump told his supporters. Ben Carson, at Trump Tower in New York City.
Trump has in the past described Mexicans as rapists and drug dealers, and vowed to round up illegal immigrants and build a wall on the southern border – for which he would make Mexico pay.
Trump has polled poorly with minorities but lately has tried to broaden his appeal to them, hinting at a softening of his hard-line position on immigration.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to send mixed signals on immigration.
“Everything Trump promises comes with an expiration date”, Cruz’ Senate communications director said.
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This week, he said the USA should “work with them”, suggesting some undocumented immigrants could stay if they paid taxes. “@CNN, she forgot how she said a KKK member was her mentor”, Trump tweeted Saturday.
