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Latinos find Clinton more trustworthy than Trump

Trump’s speech came as Milwaukee was still recovering from two nights of unrest in the Sherman Park neighborhood following the Saturday afternoon shooting of an armed suspect by a Milwaukee police officer.

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Trump also accused Clinton and Democrats of deepening racial divides and fostering “the unsafe anti-police atmosphere in America”.

Mr Trump began his visit to the city with a meeting with local law enforcement officers at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Centre on Lake Michigan.

“I’m asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future”, Trump said in Washington County, which has a black population of 1.2 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Donald Trump made a pitch for African-American voters on Tuesday by calling for more police in America’s inner cities, arguing that Democratic policies have failed minority communities and accusing Democrats of “peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force”.

When asked if the officer did the right thing, Trump told Fox News: “If he believed the gun was pointed at his head, maybe ready to be fired, what is a person supposed to do?”

“We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of colour and sees them only as votes – that’s all they care about”, Mr Trump said.

“Who can have a problem with that?”

Clinton campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri responded by accusing Mr Trump of being the bigot instead.

Additionally in the Fox News Latino poll, 69% of Latino voters believe the country’s current immigration system is “mostly broken”, while 26% believe it’s “mostly working”.

Clinton had said Monday that the Milwaukee protests showed that the nation had “urgent work to do to rebuild trust between police and communities” and said “everyone should have respect for the law and be respected by the law”.

RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer calls Trump’s staffing changes the “healthy growth of the campaign at a senior level at a key point”. Trump said. “If it is true, then people shouldn’t be rioting”.

And for the first time in the general election campaign in Wisconsin, Trump was on the same stage as Gov. Scott Walker, the man he vanquished early in the GOP primaries.

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“Pence is likely boosting the GOP ticket’s prospects here, as IN voters really don’t like either of the two presidential nominees, ” Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said Wednesday.

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