Aides said Clinton will link Trump’s statements about immigration and religion to the rise of a political fringe movement in the USA known as the “alternative right”, which opposes multiculturalism and immigration. Trump, meanwhile, leads among men and white voters.
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“Someone who has questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who’s been sued for housing discrimination against communities of colour, who has attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force, is someone who is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia”, she said.
Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “bigot” on Wednesday: “Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future”, he said. It’s often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”, oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values”.
Trump’s campaign responded with a strongly-worded statement from a prominent black supporter, Pastor Mark Burns, who says Clinton and her campaign “went to a disgusting new low today as they released a video tying the Trump Campaign with horrific racial images”.
Bill and Hillary Clinton at the family’s foundation.
In comments broadcast on Fox News on Wednesday night, Trump backed farther away from his hardline stance on deporting millions of illegal immigrants, saying he would be willing to work with those who have abided by USA laws while living in the country.
Trump had originally aimed to give his speech Thursday in Colorado but it was postponed and a makeup date has yet to be announced. Trump’s changes in policy don’t matter. The Lebanon ambassador says he doesn’t recall anyone ever talking to him about the donor, let alone actually speaking to him. “We’ve got to get back to a country that’s working. We either have borders or we don’t”, he said, stressing that he plans to build a stronger border wall with Mexico.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly walked around one neighborhood Thursday morning, speaking with some residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Wednesday’s storm.
Before the meeting in NY, several protesters unfurled a banner over a railing in the lobby of Trump Tower that read, “Trump = Always Racist”.
More than a dozen members of the Republican Leadership Institute were meeting with Trump Thursday morning at Trump Tower in New York City.
Trump said: “We have great relationships with the African-American community”. Polls show minorities overwhelmingly favor Democrat Hillary Clinton.
As in other states, Trump is leaning heavily on the Republican National Committee to help him contact and persuade voters.
Trump tried to get ahead of the Democratic nominee, addressing a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire just minutes before Clinton.
“Well, first, What Trump has said is ridiculous”.
Trump took a tougher stance on immigration than Rubio did during the Republican primary campaign.
“That is absurd”, she told CNN.
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“There’s some issues about how his signature was, basically how he described his division or section he was in, which the doctor isn’t”, she said. When reports broke past year that she’d set up a parallel email system at home, she said: “I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totalled roughly 55,000 printed pages”.
