Donald Trump has earned the required number of delegates to clinch the GOP presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer, according to the Associated Press.
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Mr Trump had become the presumptive Republican nominee earlier this month when his final two rivals dropped out of the race.
“Any demographic that is growing at the rate of the Latino voters obviously will be of the utmost importance to a presidential campaign”, Trump aide Ed Brookover said when asked about Hispanic outreach. “This is deeply distressing, and I think as the campaign goes further, more and more Americans are going to be, you know, really disturbed by the kind of campaign he’s running”.
Here are Clinton and Schultz on violence when it is directed at supporters of Trump: a deafening silence. “People are dying every day”. Gov. Susana Martinez, head of the Republican Governors Association and the nation’s only Latina governor, has harshly criticized his remarks on immigrants and has attacked his proposal to build a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border.
Protesters outside a rally for Donald J. Trump in Albuquerque threw rocks at police horses and lighted fires on Tuesday night, according to the police and postings on social media.
“The protesters in New Mexico were thugs who were flying the Mexican flag”, Trump wrote on Twitter. “The rally inside was big and handsome, but outside, criminals!”
“What I’m going to do is I want to focus on 15-or-so states”, he said, that could go “either way”. After Trump departed, a small group of protesters remained in the area, ignoring orders by police to disperse.
And while some embrace Trump’s plans for the wall and deportations, others say they don’t believe Trump actually plans to follow through with his proclamations on the campaign trail. Before Trump took the stage in Albuquerque, Mary Jo Andrade, 37, a licensed mental health counselor, said her 17-year-old daughter is often teased in school for backing him.
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Trump supporters at the rally said they appreciated his stance on boosting border security and stemming the flow of people crossing the border illegally, but some said they were frightened by the violent protests outside. Having said that, I have said many times, it was a mistake.
