Among Republicans, 21 percent of those who supported a path planned to vote for Hillary Clinton.
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“No citizenship”, Trump said.
These attempts, which have come in front of predominantly white audiences, have more than occasionally offended minority voters. “She should be ashamed of herself”.
Clinton’s team is straining to hold Trump to his statements from the Republican primary, reminding voters of his hard line on immigration and arguing that his campaign has encouraged hate groups. “You’re going to have a deportation force, and you’re going to do it humanely”, Trump told MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Trump introduced a theme of a “New American Future” – his team capitalized in his prepared text – which all Americans would reach by working together in a Trump administration.
“Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists”, Trump predicted at his rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Trump’s campaign accused Clinton of trying to distract Americans from the “single worst week of her political career”.
“I don’t know what Steve said”, he said in the interview on “Anderson Cooper 360”, before pivoting back to Clinton and her email controversies. And I will tell you, this is not about hate.
To those I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?
At the same time, Trump’s campaign and Breitbart have reveled recently in conspiracy theories about Clinton, suggesting she is in the throes of a health crisis.
A lot. A vote for him isn’t so much a vote for something “new” as a return to a more bigoted and regressive past, an allegedly idyllic America that wrapped white Americans in a comforting blanket of privilege and left black Americans out in the cold. Her speech focused on the so-called “alt-right” movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”, oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values”. Discussions about the alt-right movement became the subject of a Twitter war Thursday, with people on both sides of the debate tweeting under the hashtag #altrightmeans.
On the one hand, he views the crime bill and welfare reform of the 1990s as disadvantageous to large numbers of blacks, but he says the view of the Clintons is mostly favorable.
Clinton also noted that David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, was “jubilant” on his radio show recently while describing Trump.
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 and has taken to claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted. “Additionally, as part of his outreach, he said, “[Hillary Clinton] supports open borders that violate the civil rights of African-Americans by giving their jobs to people here unlawfully”. He added that Trump refused the group’s invitation to speak at its convention.
“We have great relationships with the African-American community”, Trump said.
“The message was talking about the number one issue plaguing minority communities was education, and we had a laid out plan is before we can get the good jobs we’ve gotta be properly trained for it”, televangelist Pastor Mark Burns of SC told 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa.
Before the meeting, several protesters unfurled a banner over a railing in the lobby of Trump Tower that read, “Trump = Always Racist”.
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Trump was quick to ridicule his opponents.
