Clinton released a video on Thursday ahead of her Nevada speech tying Trump to white supremacist groups. The Democratic nominee, who has been working to paint her opponent as fearmongering and racist, also said that Trump’s “disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly unsafe”.
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Trump and Clinton are each portraying the other as discriminatory toward African-Americans, with Trump charging on Wednesday evening that the candidate herself was hateful.
“This is not conservatism as we have known it”.
Trump’s campaign projected its interest in courting support from minority voters.
Compare those words with what President Obama said of the Republican convention during his speech in Philly: “W$3 hat we heard in Cleveland last week wasn’t particularly Republican-and it sure wasn’t conservative”.
Trump’s campaign fired back at the new advertisement, calling it a “new low”.
“I am reaching out to everyone, Republicans, Democrats, independents, everyone who is as troubled as I am by the bigotry and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s campaign”, she told MSNBC, adding she was asking “fair-minded Americans to repudiate this kind of divisive demagoguery”.
Conway said. “He’s called a bigot, a racist, a sexist”.
“When asked in a nationally televised interview whether he would disavow the support of David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, Trump wouldn’t do it”, Clinton recalled Trump’s noncommittal comments on Duke during in February.
And with this fourth trip to New Hampshire since wrapping up the nomination, Trump insisted New Hampshire’s four electoral votes remain “very, very important”.
The Republican nominee retweeted a supporter’s post that the Democratic nominee “said a KKK member was her mentor”.
That new discipline has enabled the Republican tycoon to concentrate his attacks on Clinton and his allegations that, as secretary of state, she trafficked in influence through the family’s Clinton Foundation.
“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”, Clinton said in prepared remarks released by her campaign.
“It is deeply disturbing that he is taking hate groups that lived in the dark regions of the internet making them mainstream, helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party”, Clinton continued.
Lerer reported from Hartford, Connecticut.
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Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has fallen seven points in just three days, with her edge dropping to just five per cent.
