“I had a great meeting with great people, great Hispanic leaders and there could certainly be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people”, Trump said. “He hates immigrants. He distrusts and dislikes and disrespects women on a daily basis”, she said.
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During his campaign, Trump has pledged to deport the 11 million people living in the country illegally and build a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border. “I’ll straighten it out”, he said at a rally Monday in Akron, Ohio, saying some people of color live in poverty and that crime-stricken inner city neighborhoods that are less safe than “war zones” overseas.
Mentioning the Dallas police shootings, Trump cast himself as a law and order champion.
Donald Trump says he is not “flip-flopping” on his plan to deport millions of people who immigrated to the US illegally, days after reports indicated he was hedging on one of his signature campaign vows.
Senior member of the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign Marlon Marshall responded to Trump saying it could not be clearer how much African Americans have to lose under the 70-year-old billionaire tycoon. Portman has hit the campaign trail in OH with a Republican who had White House ambitions, but it’s the state’s Governor John Kasich, not Trump.
Others around Alvarez said they had been paying attention to Trump’s recent interviews, in which he shied from his more combative immigration rhetoric.
Trump, taping a town hall in Austin, Texas, for Fox News, was asked by moderator Sean Hannity if he would change current statutes to accommodate law-abiding citizens or longtime residents who have raised children in the United States. It’s a silly argument.
Others are breaking a sweat trying to gain distance without betraying their political base.
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio, Monday. Mark-Viverito called Trump a “menace and a danger” and said his immigration policies – which include building a wall between Mexico and the southern USA border – point to a “record of demonizing Latinos in particular”.
Trump, campaigning Monday in OH, has criticized trade deals put in place by President Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. “And by the way, I know it doesn’t sound nice”.
Asked whether Trump’s plan still included a deportation force, his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said Sunday it was “to be determined”.
In July, the Republican National Committee received $18.1 million from joint fundraising efforts with Trump.
During a Trump campaign swing in OH on Monday, residents said it would be understandable if he shifts his stance away from full deportation. “I can’t imagine I’d remain a Republican if he becomes president”.
“Mr. Trump is a smart man who uses common sense”, said Jennifer Carter, a small business owner from Barberton, Ohio.
This year, too, Republican senators and strategists are openly discussing split-ticket voting and messages aimed at convincing voters that a Hillary Clinton victory would only increase the imperative for a Republican Congress to act as a check on issues including Supreme Court nominations.
Still others have enthusiastically embraced Trump, despite his xenophobic remarks and unstatesmanlike behavior.
The U.S.is sending a Justice Department team to Turkey to help sort out the technical requirements of the request, said the officials, who briefed reporters ahead of Biden’s trip on condition of anonymity.
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