Following Nigel Farage’s speech in support of Trump, Clinton took the unusual step of speaking out to discredit Farage. Trump, whose support comes mainly from whites, is unlikely to be victorious unless he can cut into that support.
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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. “He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party”.
Trump responded with a statement from one of his most prominent black supporters, South Carolina Pastor Mark Burns, who called the video “a disgusting new low”.
He described some Mexican immigrants as “criminals and rapists” in a 2015 speech launching his candidacy and more recently questioned the impartiality of an American-born judge of Mexican heritage.
He concluded his barrage of tweets with a new web video attacking Clinton, with the caption: “Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign”.
“His campaign famously posted an anti-Semitic image – a Star of David imposed over a sea of dollar bills – that first appeared on a white supremacist website”, she said.
Cooper then noted to Trump that Steve Bannon, a Breitbart executive who now serves as the Trump campaign’s CEO, once said that Breitbart News is “the platform for the alt-right”.
Trump’s campaign says the Republican nominee has never used the term “alt-right” and disavows “any groups or individuals associated with a message of hate”. “A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party”.
Hillary Clinton defended her family’s foundation on Friday, saying that the charitable work it has conducted is in line with American values.
Breitbart News also joined in on lambasting the speech, referencing Russian President Vladmir Putin after Clinton tried to tie Trump and his staff to Russia. “It’s a exhausted, disgusted argument and is so totally predictable”.
He argued on Thursday that Clinton’s opposition to charter schools and vouchers locked minority students in failing jobs, that her tax policies would hurt black-owned businesses and that she would allow immigrants to take jobs from minorities.
Using the word “smear” throughout his speech – a pre-buttal to Clinton’s – Trump said an attack on him was an attack on supporters of “our movement”.
A Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation poll for the week beginning August 15 found Clinton beatingTrump among Hispanic voters by 15 percentage points – 45 percent to 30 percent – and by 57 percentage points among black voters – 69 percent to 12 percent.
Clinton, who on Wednesday pushed back after a swell of negative coverage about the Clinton Foundation, has been alert to Trump’s tamed rhetoric about his policies on immigration and what to do with 11 million undocumented migrants living in the country.
Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has been claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted. He wants access. He wants favors from the politician he gets money for.
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“I don’t think these efforts will do a lot to help him in minority communities”, Fraga said.
