With only 72 days before the election, Trump has sought to expand beyond his core support base and attack his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump walked a political tightrope Saturday – promising in heartland Iowa to help farmers across the country by cutting taxes and federal regulations while continuing his stark appeal to potentially disaffected minority voters in USA inner cities.
“Together we’re going to win this state in November and we’re going to win the White House for the American people!” said Trump.
The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference, or doesn’t care to, between fact and fiction and who buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors.
Trump brought up a Clinton comment from the 1990s defending the crime bill her husband signed- former president Bill Clinton has since said the bill made mass incarceration worse – where she referred to certain “kinds of kids” as “super predators” and said they needed to be brought “to heel”. “The country has some very, very serious problems”, he said. Even two of the men Clinton praised, Dole and McCain, have endorsed Trump.
Immigration was a central issue in Mr Trump’s primary campaign.
At first glance, Hillary Clinton’s plan to address the alt-right/Donald Trump nexus in her Thursday speech could’ve appeared ill-advised.
According to divorce papers filed by Piccard, Bannon physically attacked her inside their Santa Monica, California, residence in 1996 and later told her to get out of town so their divorce case would fail. Her campaign says no donors received any special favours. Her level of support has varied between 41 and 45 percent during that period, and her lead over Trump in the tracking poll peaked this month at 12 percentage points on Tuesday.
Several hours after firing off his first tweet on Wade, Trump offered a more somber and contrite message: “My condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family, on the loss of Nykea Aldridge”. Those include describing some Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, suggesting a judge could not be fair because of his Mexican-American heritage, and proposing a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to combat terrorism.
Among Trump supporters, 1 in 3 said undocumented immigrants in the United States are not as honest and hardworking as USA citizens. “Donald Trump has a different attitude”, Kaine said. “And Clinton has a lot of deep roots among black politicians”.
The survey findings come as Trump this week shifted his tone on immigration, asserting that he may be open to “softening” laws to benefit the estimated 11 million undocumented people in the United States.
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Speaking at a fundraiser for Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, Trump outlined more details of his immigration policy, telling the audience he wants to crack down on expired visas, make it easier for employers to check work eligibility and repeal President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
