How AP rates the presidential race and the Road to 270

Like many Americans, I am exhausted of politicians in Washington who talk about securing our borders and fighting illegal immigration, only to fail to deliver on more broken promises. Lauren Passalacqua, spokeswoman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said voters will dismiss Republicans as acting for pure self-preservation if they abandon Trump “and say, ‘You know what, forget that guy, I’ll be a real check on the president'”.

It’s not just talk. That’s why we asked Republicans giving money to Clinton’s campaign to stop, and give it instead to House and Senate races.

Download the latest Expert Edition: Identity Management e-book. The people who wildly applauded when Trump accused Mexicans of being rapists weren’t about to sit by quietly if Trump suddenly embraced a path to citizenship, conceded a wall is unworkable and Mexico won’t pay for it, and finally admitted that it will be impossible to deport 11 million people – many of whom are parents of children born here who therefore are American citizens. Trump’s support remains steady from last week at 40, but Clinton has slipped another point.

Even so, Portman is waging an active campaign in the state with a robust voter mobilization to defeat Democrat Ted Strickland, and his efforts could help turn out Republicans that also vote for Trump. He’s promising to bring back manufacturing jobs and to renegotiate trade deals that he blames for work leaving the U.S. They would have to return to their home countries and apply for legal entry should they wish to return. Now they have a kleptocratic nominee who epitomizes everything they claim to oppose – and they seem to be completely fine with it. The biggest prize in the battleground state race is Florida.

First-term Rep. Will Hurd is seeking re-election from a constituency that’s almost 70 percent Hispanic while representing 820 miles of the U.S. -Mexico border, more than any other congressional district. Colorado Republican Rep. Mike Coffman even produced an ad promising to stand up to Trump. Trump says he’ll extend a huge wall across the vast majority of the 2,100-mile border, which would be a major construction feat costing billions of dollars. This was his chance to make that point forceful to Mexico’s president. Interviewed last week just outside the South County Library branch on Rea Road, Smith – a mother, writer and student – said she plans to vote for Clinton this November. It begins with enforcing the laws of this country, removing criminal aliens and removing people whove overstayed their visa, ending catch and release, strengthening our border patrol, strengthening immigration and customs enforcement.

Jenna Hutchinson, a 32-year-old ER nurse who lives in Fort Mill, is a registered Democrat who agrees with Clinton’s support of gay marriage and the Affordable Care Act. Because that’s what they are going to get if they don’t vote for Trump.

Two weeks ago, however, Trump sent clear signals that he was backing away from “deportation forces” and other controversial positions. The numbers could exceed 5 million. Critics have likened that piece of the plan to Mitt Romney’s widely panned call for “self-deportation”. But she would scale back the current administration’s immigration raids, which she says produce “unnecessary fear and disruption in communities”. “She’s committed. She builds coalitions with a variety of people”. While Trump squandered a summer’s worth of opportunities to court those voters, his campaign heads into the fall suddenly confident in its ability to make up lost ground.

A week that saw Donald Trump solidly embrace his well-known harsh rhetoric on immigration has done little to change his standing among the public. He said this week that such immigrants should not be allowed to get food stamps, welfare payments or government-backed housing assistance. The candidate hires somebody else who goes on TV to announce a new strategy devised by the candidate until said candidate lays another egg.

If the solutions are all too obvious to most Americans, they represent a bridge to a treacherous new world order to many Trump supporters. That strongly suggests she would not interfere with local ordinances, like San Francisco’s. “The policies are largely directed toward criminal illegal immigrants”.