Clinton attacks Trump’s outreach to black voters in new ad

Donald Trump on Saturday pushed back against Hillary Clinton’s efforts to link him to the Ku Klux Klan.

Clinton, in her speech, reminded voters of his past inflammatory remarks and the support he enjoys among far-right groups.

Questioned on whether it’s a problem that the GOP presidential nominee has left key details on immigration policy unclear so late in the election, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus demurred: “I just don’t speak for Donald Trump”.

At a MS rally on Wednesday, Trump called Clinton a “bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings”.

Trump is the headline speaker at her “Roast and Ride” fundraiser at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.

Recent polls indicate Clinton is ahead in some of the most competitive and pivotal states.

Trump said the Clinton attacks were not only an assault on him, but on all his supporters – people, he said, who want strong borders and security.

Suffering from falling poll numbers, Trump has appeared, at times confusingly this week, to be pivoting on his hard-right immigration policies to appeal to electorally important minority voters so alienated by this rhetoric.

He has released an online video that includes footage of the former first lady referring to some young criminals as “super predators” in the 1990s. Bernie Sanders, denouncing the phrase as “a racist term”. Clinton has since apologized for using the term.

That stance drew fire from conservatives who wanted him to stand fast after he won the Republican presidential nomination in large part by a hardline stance that would include building a wall along the United States border with Mexico. Trump received his briefing earlier this month, a customary move for major party nominees but one that has been the subject of a political tussle during the campaign.

Other Trump stand-ins, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, spoke similarly. But the lead-up to the meetings for both candidates have been steeped in politics.

And in the course of just a few days, Trump has argued that deportations should focus on those who commit crimes, veering into the same territory as President Barack Obama and Clinton.

He said other traditional swing states such as Virginia and Colorado are becoming safer bets for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, meaning her campaign is going to spend even more time focusing on Florida.

Clinton has been pitching her plans to support small businesses and to make it easier to start a company.

Trump’s new statements on immigration could reassure moderate Republicans, Karpowitz said, although the candidate has already been seen as backing away from offering legal status to immigrants here illegally unless they leave the country first.

“In the past months, we have seen a terror attack in Orlando, we are seeing escalation of racial tensions, and we can not afford to have another Democrat in the White House for an additional four years”, Alfonso Aguilar, the head of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, told NBC News.

Last weekend it was reported that Trump told hispanic leaders at a private meeting that he would consider giving immigrants in the country illegally a path to legalization.

Trump, speaking on the Iowa State Fairgrounds with hay bales stacked behind him, sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the USA immigration system after saying earlier in the week that he was softening on his plan to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.