“There’s enough evidence now that when Trump talks the way he talks it actually helps the terrorists”, Clinton said.
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He has repeatedly called for mass deportations of people in the country illegally, a stance critics say is inhumane and unrealistic.
Polls now mostly show Trump lagging Clinton by 5 percentage points or more nationally, but Priebus predicted they will tighten up and Trump will be “ahead as we move through September”.
Javier Palomarez, president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said a “desperate and panicked” Trump may seek to moderate his immigration platform, but no amount of “His-pandering” will do him any good. Questioned on whether Trump still intends to deploy the deportation force, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Sunday: “To be determined”.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Trump’s Oregon campaign director, Jacob G. Daniels, said the candidate’s recent trip to visit flood-ravaged areas in Louisiana prompted scheduling changes and forced the cancellation of the Oregon trip. Attendees who spoke with Univision said Trump’s upcoming immigration policy speech in Colorado will “include finding a way to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants”.
Indeed, Trump’s first television ad of the general election specifically singles out illegal immigrants with criminal records, claiming that, if Clinton is elected, “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay”. Trump asked at a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio, addressing black and Hispanic voters. Republican leaders fear that Trump can’t win – and could drag down GOP congressional candidates – if he doesn’t increase his support beyond his white, male base. “There can be no exceptions”.
“What he supports is to make sure we enforce the law, that we are respectful of those Americans who are looking for jobs, and that we are fair and humane to those living among us”, Conway said on CNN’s State of the Union. “That’s not what he is supposed to be about”.
The statement further muddles the immigration policies being proposed by Trump, who has long proposed a massive border wall and insisted that all undocumented immigrants “have got to go” – perhaps using a “deportation force”.
“We’ve going to build a wall folks, don’t worry, we’re going to build a wall, he said”. We’re going to get them out.
“It is a disaster the way African Americans are living in many cases, and in many cases the way Hispanics are living, and I say it with such a deep felt feeling: What do you have to lose?”
Clinton, meanwhile, is spending the next three days fundraising across California, mingling at a series of events with celebrities, Hollywood moguls and technology titans.
Clinton’s Republican opponents allege that big donors to the charitable foundation used it to get special access to Clinton or her top aides when she was secretary of state.
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In the latest revelations, the State Department said it was reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails.
