But following a Buzzfeed report that he told his Hispanic advisors this weekend that he would consider offering undocumented immigrants a path to legal status, Trump’s campaign is struggling to clarify its stance.
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To highlight the irony of Trump’s proposal, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah sent correspondent Jordan Klepper into a snake pit of right-wing extremists at a Wisconsin Trump rally to find out if the Republican nominee’s supporters could pass his own test. Central to Trump’s campaign, and one of the main drivers for this series, is the Republican presidential candidate’s long-held desire to “force” some 11 million illegal immigrants out of the country via mass deportation, and keep them out by use of a wall built by Mexico. At right is Rick Figueroa, first vice preside.
Meanwhile, independents back Trump and Clinton in equal measure – 35% – with a full 20% saying they’ll go for Johnson.
Trump denied in an interview Monday morning on Fox News that he was “flip-flopping” on the issue of illegal immigration.
“We’re learning about all the debts that he’s run up”, Kaine said.
On one hand, the frenzy over Trump’s potential reversal is understandable.
“I think what’s happened with Mr. Trump is that, he realizes when some of us tell him to himself-what we mean by that is, sure you’re going to deliver substantive, policy solution centric speeches”, Conway said. “We have to be very firm”. “We want to come up with a fair but firm process”. We’re gonna smoke her out on the substance.
We’re dealing with people. Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, Sunday that Trump’s policy on deploying a “deportation force” was “to be determined”. “Donald Trump is back in Hillary Clinton’s head”, Conway said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump canceled an immigration speech scheduled for Thursday.
There have been signs for weeks now that Trump was shifting course.
So the question is, if Trump is talking to mainly white people in his campaign stops, and if he’s getting around 2 percent support among black voters according to a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post, who is Trump really reaching out to with his message towards the African-American community?
“The RNC joins the Trump campaign in recognizing the diverse group of Hispanic leaders who are generously giving of their time and talent to be a part of the National Hispanic Advisory Council for Trump”, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in an official statement following the meeting.
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Chen said Trump could theoretically maintain a tough-on-enforcement stance that might appeal to voters now skeptical of his harsh rhetoric by adopting a nuanced approach similar to the priority-based system unveiled by President Barack Obama in 2014. “There can be no exceptions”. The boy’s mother, Laurel Imer, is technically in charge but says she’s ceded responsibility to her son until school starts.
