“Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment”, Clinton said. Weeks before the first early voting, Trump faces the urgent task of revamping his image to win over those skeptical of his candidacy. She’s only going to take care of herself, her husband, her consultants, her donors.
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Clinton is eager to capitalize on Trump’s slipping poll numbers, particularly among moderate Republican women turned off by his controversial campaign.
“Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters”, she said in the speech in Reno.
The “de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for this group, a fringe element that has effectively taken over the Republican Party”.
He made his remarks shortly before Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee was to deliver a speech addressing his campaign’s recent shift to the right.
The video also shows newly appointed Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon, who ran the website Breitbart.com, which has been accused of stoking online racists.
Meanwhile, Clinton, who is looking to make history as America’s first female commander in chief, has hit choppy waters as well amid the continuing fallout over her misbegotten decision to use a private email server for State Department correspondence.
Trump also criticized Clinton for using a private server when she was secretary of state, making classified information “highly vulnerable” to foreign hackers, even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation found no evidence such information was actually compromised.
“When Democratic policies fail, they are left with this one exhausted argument: ‘You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist, ‘” the GOP presidential nominee said at a rally here yesterday.
“He says he wants to ‘make America great again, ‘” Clinton said of Trump, “but his real message remains ‘Make America hate again'”. Her speech focused on the so-called “alt-right” movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”, oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values”. Discussions about the alt-right movement became the subject of a Twitter war Thursday, with people on both sides of the debate tweeting under the hashtag #altrightmeans. Another code word for white supremacy.
Among the areas for talks with Canada and Mexico would be strengthening enforcement provisions to go after those who violate its terms, he said.
Trump met Thursday with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers to reach out to voters like them. At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color, and in MS on Wednesday he went so far as to label Clinton “a bigot”.
“They’ve been very disrespectful, as far as I’m concerned, to the African-American population in this country”, Trump said.
Before the meeting in NY, several protesters unfurled a banner over a railing in the lobby of Trump Tower that read, “Trump = Always Racist”. Clinton’s speech here was an attempt to put the spotlight back on Trump on an issue her camp hopes will continue to be a hot topic through November, although Trump made a clear play to try to neutralize that by questioning her own attitudes toward black Americans. “Nothing will change”, they yelled.
Trump has polled poorly with minorities and has been heavily criticized for his proposals on immigration, which include deporting millions of undocumented foreigners, building a wall along the Mexican border, and suspending Muslim immigration to shore up national security.
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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 saidw.
