The disdain for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is “unprecedented”, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said Monday.
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Donald Trump isn’t making it easy for top supporters and advisers, from his running mate on down, to defend him or explain some campaign positions.
Though he made a strict immigration policy a cornerstone of his campaign from the very first day, including promising to forcibly deport millions who are here illegally, he now seems to be leaving open the possibility of modification.
He added, “Instead of continuing to push discredited conspiracy theories, Donald Trump needs to produce a real doctor’s letter, written by a credible doctor, that details the state of his health for voters”.
Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, told Xinhua that Trump did avoid the temptation to go off script and has been more effective in message discipline recently.
“It is not an accident that they have ended up closing all the DMVs where African Americans in Alabama live”, Clinton said, referring to motor vehicle offices where people can obtain identification cards used in voting. He has also held at least three round-tables with leaders from minority communities in recent weeks in Trump Tower and on the campaign trail. Trump even questioned whether people born in the United States to people here illegally are citizens – even though they have automatically been considered citizens since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868.
At that gathering, and another in Bedminster on Sunday without Ingraham, Trump was joined by Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman ousted last month over accusations of sexual harassment.
“It seems like a significant number of voters are backing a presidential candidate about whom they can not say anything positive”, Murray said.
“What you heard him describe there in his usual plainspoken American way was a mechanism, not a policy”.
But lately, he’s been exploring the issue’s complexities in public. Pence also did not answer whether the campaign believes, as Trump has said, that children born to people who are in the USA illegally are not US citizens. He still blames President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for creating the Islamic State and still makes unsupported promises of lowered energy bills, factories sprouting coast-to-coast and a sharp drop in crime. That, he said, “is a subject for the future”.
The Aug. 22-25 opinion poll found that 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton ahead of the November 8 presidential election, while 36 percent supported Trump. He said the killing of someone pushing a stroller “is unacceptable in an American city” and that “the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable”.
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However when CNN reported on the issue Monday, the network flashed a graphic representation that looked like, but wasn’t, Mr. Trump’s tweet.
