Trump And Clinton Cancel Campaign Events, Respond To Shootings

Presidential campaigning is on hold as both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton canceled political events Friday after five police officers were killed in Dallas during a demonstration over fatal police shootings of black men in other states.

Overall, 62% of Republicans say average Republicans in the country generally agree with Trump on most issues.

Clinton will still appear in Philadelphia Friday and was scheduled to speak about police shootings before Thursday’s attack.

Clinton had planned to campaign with Vice President Biden in Scranton, Pa.; Trump had scheduled a speech on “Succeeding Together” in Miami.

According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken over the last five weeks, almost two-thirds of Americans feel the country is on the wrong track, reflecting their general unease with the economy, terror threats and violence.

In a CNN interview Friday afternoon, Clinton described the rapid succession of violent events this week – including the videotaped killings of young black men by police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana – as “deeply troubling and it should worry every single American”.

She also offered praise for police officers who are “demonstrating how to protect the public without resorting to unnecessary force. We have a very large Hispanic population in Arizona and it is growing”, McCain said. Trump faced criticism earlier in the day for releasing a statement that referenced “two motorists”, even though only one of the two men was in a auto, and for not naming the men.

Speaking in the wake of the shootings, Clinton said they were “an absolutely horrific event”, and that the road to a country where “police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us”. “I hope that continues as we go into the general election”, he said.

His concession that the racial divide in this country is troublesome and needs fixing, then, was a departure of sorts and, viewed generously, a sign he may be maturing (outwardly, at least) as his campaign becomes more professional.

President Barack Obama had, just ahead of the Dallas shooting, made an impassioned address from Warshaw, where he has gone to attend a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meet, about race and policing in the US.

In responding to the spasm of gun violence, Clinton has called for more regulations on the gun industry and has aligned herself with the Black Lives Matter movement, which campaigns against violence against African-Americans. “I think you’re just going to make the whole thing worse”.

“It took me a long time, and a number of people talking to me through the years to get a sense of this”.

Clinton says if elected president she will develop national guidelines on the use of force by police officers.

“I have tremendous people and tremendous interest”.