Pollsters also found Clinton is now winning by 24 percent among female voters and Trump’s lead among men is down to just six percent. “But now he’s reflecting on it and his position is going to be known”, Priebus said.
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Like we said at the beginning, Christie was put in a tough spot on Sunday. Across the Sunday news shows, a parade of Trump stand-ins, led by vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, couldn’t say whether Trump was sticking with or changing a central promise to use a “deportation force” to expel immigrants here illegally.
“The truth of the matter is, Donald Trump is laying out in that tweet – in short form; it is, what, 140 characters – that we have a choice to make as a country”, Pence said. Trump has a proven record of discrimination against African-Americans and Puerto Ricans in NY. Then, facing repeated questioning, he returned to his hard-line stance that there is no path to legalization for immigrants unless they leave the country and come back.
When Donald Trump attempted to court African-American voters by pointing out that 54 percent of our young people aren’t employed and our schools are failing – asking, “What the hell do you have to lose?” “And quite frankly, you know, I think this is the kind of thing that people expect from a president of the United States – that they’ll approach these things thoughtfully, and smartly, and I’m confident that that is exactly what a President Trump will do”.
Ms Aldridge, a mother-of-four, was killed as she pushed her child in a buggy on Chicago’s south side on Friday.
“I will be doing that I’d say over the next week or so”, Trump told reporters at Trump Tower in NY.
Several hours after firing off his first tweet on Wade, Trump offered a more somber and contrite message: “My condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family, on the loss of Nykea Aldridge”. At a news conference to explain the benefits of the ride for a veteran’s charity, Ernst was confronted with a question about one of the latest controversies for Trump’s campaign: reports of CEO Steve Bannon’s domestic violence charge from his first marriage.
Trump’s comments unleashed a torrent of criticism spearheaded by actor Don Cheadle, who has starred in such films as “Hotel Rwanda” (2004), denouncing the bombastic billionaire for trying to score political points on the back of a murder.
Steven Greenberg of the Siena College Research Institute said this election, in which candidates have the highest unfavorable ratings in generations, is primed for wedge issues from the left and right. But it was started by Ms. Clinton.
For the last two months, Trump has failed to get the race focused on Clinton’ s misdeeds by constantly shooting himself in the foot and then playing the victim role when the press covers his gaffes, West noted.
Some Republicans, including pollster Whit Ayres, have said Trump’s outreach to African-American voters has more to do with bolstering his image among white voters who are uncomfortable with his campaign.
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It didn’t take long to find what Trump and Priebus were referencing, but for this fact-check, we wanted to take a close look at the full context of Clinton’s remark. “She should be ashamed of herself”.
