It quickly became clear that the candidate himself would have to address the issue and clarify where he stands.
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Trump was set to deliver a major speech on illegal immigration this week, but his campaign made a decision to postpone the address as it continues to craft its policy and the language to deliver it. He then changed the subject. You’ve gotta get everybody to go out and watch and go out and vote. And you’ll say, ‘You know, he meant it.’ And you know what else I mean? One of the most frequent questions asked about the Trump campaign is that if they aren’t spending money on television ads, staffing, get out the vote operations, and other essentials needed for a successful presidential campaign, where is the money going? We have got gang members, we have killers.
“What people don’t know is Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country”.
As for the Trump campaign, we reached out several times to speak with them about their strategy but never got a response.
Trump continued. “Look, it is a disaster the way African Americans are living”, he said, erroneously suggesting that most black Americans live in inner cities. We don’t do anything. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us”. With the exceptions of Toomey and Mark Kirk in Illinois, GOP senators up for re-election have mostly said they will support Trump even as they’ve kept him at arm’s length, attempting to at once maintain the backing of his core supporters without alienating independent voters and others.
“You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs”, Trump said Friday at a rally in Dimondale, Mich., a predominantly white suburb. The campaign told supporters in an email “the speech (Trump) was planning on giving is still being modified”.
As congressional Republicans across the country grapple with the Trump effect on their home-state campaigns, the mild-mannered Portman, 60, may be pointing the way forward in his race, the nation’s most expensive Senate contest so far this year. “I think you gotta go out and you gotta watch”.
“I am not going to put them in a detention centre”.
Indeed, note that while Trump said “we don’t do anything” about deporting risky people, the Republican added moments later that President Obama has already deported a “tremendous” number of felons.
He also claimed murders are “up all over the place no matter where you look” – even though the homicide rate hit a 41-year low in 2014, the most recent year of available Federal Bureau of Investigation data.
Last week, Donald Trump said he is trying to pivot.
That Trump has moved closer to anti-black rhetoric-an addition to his still-regular tirades against Mexico and Muslims-only underscores the extent to which his campaign is a vehicle for a resurgent and newly confident movement of white nationalists, whose influence on the Trump campaign is visible and unmistakable.
O’Reilly also reminded Trump that he’s touted Dwight Eisenhower’s deportation program in 1952 as a model worthy of emulation. But since Trump met last Saturday with an advisory group of Latino activists and lawyers at Trump Tower in NY to discuss “more humane” ways of dealing with the problem, senior campaign advisers have been signaling that an overhaul of the candidate’s most controversial proposal was in the works. “I don’t agree with that”.
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“We’re going to build the wall, folks”, Trump said at the rally. “The bad ones are going to be out of here fast”. “Maybe they’re afraid he would bite through the leather”, Smith added. Trump, who has called Black Lives Matter “inherently racist”, talks condescendingly about African-American issues. That’s not intended as a snarky insult, but rather, an observation about why exercises like these are so hard: the Republican candidate was riffing during a television interview about substantive details to which he’s given very little thought. By the way, do you think this debate about what to do on immigration that’s fair is partially one of the reasons why Trump is canceling some of his campaign events?
