In Virginia, Clinton has a 14-point advantage, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week. The survey found that 38% say they think more highly of Kasich for his position, while just 17% say they think less highly of him.
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Clinton is not doing quite as well as Barack Obama did four years ago among black, Hispanic, and Asian voters (72% to 10% for Trump compared with 84% for Obama to 14% for Mitt Romney in 2012). I think they trust me.
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Over the weekend, Buzzfeed ran a story headlined “In Reversal, Trump Indicates To Hispanic Leaders Openness To Legalization For Immigrants”.
Trump had previously proposed using a “deportation force” to remove the 11 million people living in the United States illegally, a proposal that excited many of his core supporters, but alienated Hispanic voters who could be pivotal in key states. Other news outlets confirmed the conversations. Trump hasn’t always been an immigration warrior, calling Romney’s 2012 self-deportation plan for illegal immigrants “mean-spirited”.
That’s something the campaign immediately pushed back on.
Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN, Sunday that they weren’t exactly clear on the details, saying they’re “to be determined”.
On CBS News’ Face The Nation, Alabama Sen. Anyway, wherever Trump ends up on illegal immigration, it’s bound to be to the right of Hillary Clinton.
But a shift would carry major political risks, too.
Earlier this month, Trump said the only way he could lose the state of Pennsylvania would be if “cheating goes on”. Walking back from a high-profile promise could undermine that image.
“In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans”, a narrator says, alleging that Clinton would allow unsafe refugees from Syria and criminal illegal immigrants to roam the country. But Trump stuck to the promise. “We’re losing jobs across the board, yet people are walking in unchecked and we don’t know who they are, and they could be ISIS”, a reference to Islamic State jihadists. It’s a silly argument. “It makes so much sense to have a businessman be president”, Barker said.
Trump’s response to terrorism has centered on immigration, as well. Then she heads back across the country for more fundraising in the wealthy Hamptons area of Long Island outside NY. We want to come up with one a really fair, but firm answer. “That is a fact – and a fact we need to talk about”.
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Four hundred and thirty-three days since Donald Trump referred to undocumented Mexican immigrants as drug-toting, crime-committing “rapists”, the Republican presidential nominee is set to kick off a week of immigration-themed campaign stops.
