Revealingly, Trump chose to reach out to blacks in a Wisconsin town located 40 miles north, and a world away, from Milwaukee, site of racially charged unrest over the fatal police shooting of an African-American man who, authorities say, carried a gun.
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But Trump has more ground to make up with African-American voters than any Republican nominee in recent history, drawing just 1% of the African-American vote in a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in the battleground states of OH and Pennsylvania.
Rubio, like other Republican senators running for re-election this year, has struggled with how to handle having Trump atop the ticket, particularly given the harsh attacks the two traded when Rubio was running for the GOP nomination.
Manafort deputy Rick Gates, who has been traveling often with Trump, is expected to maintain a senior role with the campaign. You know it, and I know it.
Along with his law and order message, Trump also weaved in talking points about immigration and jobs, and how those issues impact the African-American community.
“Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said last week that the campaign had made a decision to wait until after the Olympics were over to begin airing ads “’cause we don’t need to.
Cities like Milwaukee, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Chicago are run by Democrats, Trump said, and they have failed African-Americans in those places.
“If Donald Trump’s going to win here and win across the country, he needs to make it clear that the race is between him and Hillary Clinton”, Walker said on Fox News.
Mr Trump said on Monday that the country’s national security requirements demanded “extreme” vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, pointing to the threat of the Islamic State group (IS) and terrorism elements. When his ties to the Kremlin came under scrutiny, he absurdly claimed that Hillary was the one who was too close to Putin.
She said Trump’s tax plan would allow millionaires to cut their taxes to half and will not benefit 99.8 per cent of Americans.
A group of 1084 likely voters in MS were called to ask who they support for president, among other things. “But to do it with the kind of bigness, the kind of confidence that really marks America at our best”, she said.
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Outside of Trump’s campaign, Republican strategists are resigned to the likelihood that Hillary Clinton will keep the White House in Democratic hands.
