Trump’s campaign manager also criticized the media for presenting a skewed picture of the 2016 race. Many expected an answer sometime during Trump’s visit to Austin this week. “You mark my words, I’ve been very good at predicting things”.
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The billionaire developer and reality TV star has been directly reaching out to minority voters in speeches this week. And perhaps it’s just as nerve-wracking to those already aboard the Trump train.
Donald Trump’s campaign tried to downplay the Republican nominee’s stance on immigration, insisting Thursday that “nothing has changed as far as the policies”. There, reports say, he asked his newly formed council – made up of almost two dozen Hispanic faith, civic and business representatives from 12 states – to help find a “humane and efficient” way to deal with undocumented immigrants. “That’s the way it’s supposed to be”, Trump added. Conway’s response? “To be determined”.
But Trump hasn’t fully pressed down the brakes on anti-immigrant rhetoric.
The reversal on deportations, though, comes after Trump called for a “deportation force” during the GOP primary, and went after fellow Republican candidates like Jeb Bush for their their positions.
Even those Trump supporters who are concerned about his comments say they’re more anxious about Clinton.
The conflicting messages has had many asking “what gives?”
Trump stood by his stance that immigrants in the country illegally who have committed crimes should be “out on day one”.
Trump appeared on a Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity this week focused on the topic.
Others expressed support for Trump, and many signed up to walk in Saturday’s Colorado State Fair Parade and to help in GOP and Trump booths at the Fair and Pueblo Chile and Frijoles Festival. He did. The tone, however, was very different at each.
Hillary Clinton is now far-ahead of Trump with Hispanics. “(Trump’s) going to get this country working again”.
“So you have somebody that’s been in the country for 20 years, has done a great job”. Trump then asked the audience for their opinion.
“OK – do we take him and the family, or her or him or whatever, and send ’em out and they’re gone?” he asked the audience. But once he entered the edge of the city limits – a more conservative area – he changed his mind. At this event, Trump refused to step away from his plan of “extreme vetting”. Now, okay, but when I look at the rooms, and I have this all over, now everybody agrees we get the bad ones out, but when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person that’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and the family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump.
Absolutely no pivot there. McCain eventually won the nomination, but lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. “Hillary can be trusted to be the worst president on immigration in history”. Yet, Obama calls for humane, focused efforts to deport the most risky people while allowing more families to stay together.
But suddenly, Trump is sounding like some of the people he defeated.
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So will he? Or won’t he? “And that’s a little unfair to people, but we’re going to let people come in anyway”.
