Trump’s hard-line stances on immigration – particularly his proposal to deport as many as 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally and linking immigrants to crime – is being credited for hurting his numbers in Colorado, where he trails Democrat Hillary Clinton by double-digits in multiple polls.
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Trump said in an interview with Fox & Friends on Monday that he’s “not flip-flopping”, but wants to come up with “a really fair, but firm” solution.
Trump met with Hispanic supporters at his Trump Tower headquarters in NY on Saturday (Sunday in Manila), when several participants told Spanish-language network Univision that he said his plan will include finding a way to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants.
New campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and CEO Steve Bannon accompanied Trump.
“Paul Manafort has been pushed out, but that doesn’t mean that the Russians have been pushed out of this campaign”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told ABC News’George Stephanopoulos on “This Week”.
“The only reason the killer was in America in the first place is because we allowed his family to come here”, Trump said in his first speech after the attacks.
“Unfortunately, it took them two months to figure out that Donald Trump is Donald Trump”, former Trump adviser Barry Bennet said of Manafort and his team.
“The steps that are being taken if she should become president are unprecedented”.
Since he entered the presidential race a year ago, Trump insisted they would have to be expelled from the country, despite the logistical and humanitarian questions a mass deportation would present.
Last week, another investigation by the Washington Post found that even when Trump claimed on his NBC television show The Celebrity Apprentice that he would make “personal” contributions from his “own account”, the funds actually were transferred from either his foundation or the show’s production company in every instance the paper could document.
In addition to the $650 million liabilities, “a substantial portion of his wealth is tied up in three passive partnerships that owe an additional $2 billion to a string of lenders”, the Times said about debt that could significantly affect Trump’s wealth.
That state illustrates the depth of Trump’s problem: It’s considered a linchpin of his strategy to win over working-class white voters in the Rust Belt. But I think when we talk about transparency, when we talk about disclosure, Donald Trump needs to release his taxes.
“Donald Trump is nothing more than a spoiled, unpatriotic drain on society who has earned nothing and helped no one”, Reid says in an email sent from his fundraising committee.
Indeed, Trump was back to his old self on Twitter Monday morning.
Secretary of State Colin Powell is pushing back against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s assertion that he suggested she use her private email account for non-classified information. I want to get the bad ones out.
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Pence added, “The man that is running this campaign is now and always has been Donald Trump”.
