Clinton keeps stay-the-course strategy on foundation, emails

And the Clinton campaign has spent the past week tying Trump to the most extreme elements of the Breitbart universe. “He’s bringing it to our communities and our country”, Clinton said.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters outside the Hub Coffee Roasters, in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016.

Former Republican presidential candidate Dr. He wrote in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry that the AP report and others raised questions over whether State officials acted to benefit the Clinton Foundation “in violation of executive branch ethics guidelines”. “And if there were no evidence. that there was any conflict, I would say, ‘Look, I appreciate the work that they did, ‘” Clinton said. The Republican nominee, who donated to the Clinton Foundation, has repeatedly charged that his opponent, while secretary of state, provided access to foundation contributors in exchange for donations to the charity at the heart of Bill Clinton’s post-presidential legacy.

Clinton, 68, alleged Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. She is also trying to appeal to Republicans, casting the race as “not a normal choice between a Republican and a Democrat”. “This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump”, Clinton asserted.

“She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”, said Trump, who then defended some of the core – and to some people, divisive – ideas of his candidacy.

A spokeswoman for the 36-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and current Democratic presidential nominee, said Chelsea Clinton was committed to ensuring that those benefiting from the foundation’s work would continue to receive “that often life-changing help”, and as a result Chelsea Clinton “would remain on the board to help steward the implementation of changes which do that appropriately”.

They are among at least 85 of 154 people with private interests who either met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton and also gave to her family’s charities, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to the Associated Press.

Former President Bill Clinton, who helped establish the global charity after serving two terms in the White House, would resign from the board if his wife wins the November 8 election, the foundation announced last week.

Clinton was due to make an economic policy speech yesterday, but changed the focus to instead tie Trump to the “alt-right” movement, which she called a radical movement driven by white nationalists who have found a home on sites like Breitbart.

As Trump strives to temper his hardline anti-immigrant message in a bid to halt collapsing poll numbers, Clinton’s campaign has been at pains to remind voters of the NY tycoon’s more controversial views.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement: “Mr. Trump has never used or condoned that term and continues to disavow any groups or individuals associated with a message of hate”.

Democrats haven’t been shy about pointing out the racial undertones in Donald Trump’s campaign, but Hillary Clinton took that message to a new level Thursday, calling out the GOP nominee for purposefully whipping up racist bigotry and resentment.

The Clintons have announced that if she is elected president, they will stop accepting foreign donations and corporate donations, and both Hillary and Bill Clinton will separate themselves from the organization. “I want you to hear these words, and remember these words: Shame on you”.

Trump met Thursday with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers to reach out to voters like them. On Friday, he also continued his recent push to broaden his base of support among minority voters, convening a roundtable with Latino backers at his hotel in Las Vegas.

“I’ve always had great relationships with the African-American community”, Trump told the group, which included his former rival Ben Carson and South Carolina Pastor Mark Burns.

Many black leaders and voters have dismissed Trump’s message as condescending and intended more to reassure undecided white voters that he’s not racist.

Lerer reported from Reno, Nevada. Jill Colvin contributed reporting from Washington and Jonathan Lemire from Manchester, New Hampshire.

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