Clinton says controversies behind her; Trump turns up heat, alleging conflicts
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is associating Donald Trump’s values with those of the Ku Klux Klan.
This was supposed to be the new – new!
But with the presidential election just two-and-a-half months away, Americans seem decidedly unimpressed by this latest in a long series of tweaks, turns and transformations.
Indeed, Trump gained seven points on Clinton in Reuters’s national tracking poll and is tied with her in the most recent Breitbart News/Gravis national poll.
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.
Some of the new apparel and novelty items available from the Trump campaign’s online store incorporate opponent Hillary Clinton’s official campaign logo – a letter “H” and an arrow – in slogans such as “Guilty as Hill”, “Hill No 2016” and “DisHonest”.
The wealthy NY populist has chosen a risky line of attack against Clinton, accusing her of being not just corrupt but a cynical and uncaring racist. Then, she continues, “Trump started his campaign for president with another racist lie”, – the lie she is referring to is from Trump’s announcement speech, where he alleged that Mexico was “sending” rapists, drug dealers and other criminals into the U.S.
“I appreciate the concerns that people have expressed and that’s why I have made it clear that if I’m successful in November we are going to be taking additional steps”, she said.
Trump himself accused Clinton of “trying to smear” his supporters. “African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” “He will be lucky – and I mean lucky – to get 15 percent” of the minority vote. We’ve been doing fantastic, far, far greater. than anyone understands.
And, Trump’s proposal to “Build that wall”, drew approval from 91 percent of his loyal supporters. That voter bloc, disillusioned, marginalized by globalization and contemptuous of the nation’s elites, represented about 45 percent of the overall electorate in 2012, according to The New York Times. Joining him on stage were top Iowa Republicans – among them Ernst, Gov. Terry Branstad, Sen.
Trump had been criticised for repeating the question before vastly white crowds in other states. There are many examples of this phenomenon; whether they happen because of divine providence or simply a concatenation of historical incident is unknowable, but I sometimes tend to believe the former. “But he may be able to soften his image a bit with some Republican and maybe a few independent whites who have been put off by his harshness thus far”.
I think a strong approach to illegal immigration is needed more than ever, not only for the sake of Trump’s campaign but because it’s the right thing to do.
The events of the past week illustrate his strategic dilemma.
But his new outreach comes amid his own mixed signals on his immigration plan, including whether or not he would stick with a primary campaign promise to deport 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally. The problem is even Trump doesn’t know where he is on the issue. Sabato said. “He can’t even describe what his position is on immigration”.
While he wrote a year ago that Trump’s physical strength and stamina are extraordinary, Bornstein tells NBC that he doesn’t think Trump is in any better or worse shape than the average person who exercises daily.