As African Americans statistically back Democratic candidates in presidential elections, Trump made a speech earlier this week, saying that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has neither helped blacks, nor will she ever be able to do so.
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Clinton’s campaign staff have previously made similar comments to farm groups, said Jay Vroom, chief executive officer of pesticide association CropLife America, who attended meetings with representatives of both candidates.
A top aide to Donald Trump said on Sunday the Republican presidential nominee’s plans to deport 11 million people who are in the United States illegally were a work in progress and that he was committed to a “fair and humane” approach on immigration. Democratic committees in these states spent $9.9 million while Republicans spent just $3.3 million.
Trump made his first ad buy a few days ago, for almost $5 million in commercials to air across Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Instead, about half of the campaign’s $18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles-Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show.
Mook kept up his criticism over Trump’s connections with Russian Federation, arguing that despite the departure of Manafort amid questions over his work for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine, Trump should offer an accounting about his own ties to Russian Federation. Priebus also tried to comfort anxious conservatives, some of whom – including senators – have abandoned Trump in disgust.
Clinton’s campaign had more than $58 million in the bank, while Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC flanking her bid, boasted almost $39 million on hand.
Trump is left running from behind while also defending traditional Republican strongholds such as Georgia, where a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll suggests even that may be in play for Clinton.
Hillary Clinton and her husband and former president Bill Clinton have been viewed over the years as espousing causes important to the black community, and Bill was once referred to by Nobel Prize winning poet Toni Morrison as the nation’s “first black president”.
Clinton supporters have hit Trump on issues such as his refusal to release his tax returns, and Clinton had an opinion piece on water quality last week in Florida’s Treasure Coast Newspapers.
Trump has not completely kept to his new, more courteous script.
Two weeks after campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was ousted, the Trump campaign sent his firm, Green Monster Consulting, another $20,000 cheque. That included $14.5 million transferred from the joint fundraising committees and a $2 million donation from Trump himself, who has now given a total of $52 million to finance his White House bid. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – which was passed by Democrats – the average Republican nominee received about 7 percent.
At the time of the latest payment, Mr Lewandowski was already on the payroll of CNN, where he is a political contributor.
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“It’s time to hold Democratic politicians accountable for what they’ve done for these communities”, he said, adding: “What do you lose by trying something new like Trump?”
