Clinton’s presidential campaign said the ad, released a day after she gave a speech accusing Trump of fueling America’s “radical fringe”, would air in the hotly contested states of Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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She added that Trump’s recent choice of Steven Bannion (pictured below), a hardline conservative, as his new campaign chief showed he had embraced extremist white nationalist stances associated with the “alt-right” movement.
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.
Duke is a former Klan grand wizard, now running for a Senate seat in Louisiana, who has urged his supporters to back Trump. “The country has some very, very serious problems”, he said.
The position change of Trump seems to be too convenient while the allegations over the Clinton Foundation have dealt a new blow to the Democratic nominee, leaving small room for them to swiftly enhance their popularities among voters, local analysts say.
“I think she has been extremely bad for African-Americans, extremely bad for Hispanics”, Trump said.
Judge Orders Release Of Extra Hillary Clinton Emails To Begin By September 13: “A judge gave the State Department until September 13 to begin releasing almost 15,000 newly discovered emails the FBI found during its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server while she was secretary of state”.
Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer said that Ms Clinton was trying to deflect attention from controversy around her family’s charitable foundation and her use of private email address and server rather than a government one while she was secretary of state from 2009-2013. Her campaign says no donors received any special favors.
“A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party”.
“She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”, said Trump, who then defended some of the core – and to some people, divisive – ideas of his candidacy.
Clinton described Trump as a candidate “with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of the supermarket tabloids and the far, dark reaches of the internet”.
The 2016 presidential election is still more than two months away, but that hasn’t stopped Republican officials from planning to do what they do best: Making life miserable for a Democratic president.
“When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one exhausted argument: You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist”, Trump told a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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“It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook”, Trump said.
