Trump meets with minority leaders ahead of Clinton speech

More than a dozen members of the Republican Leadership Institute were meeting with Trump Thursday morning at Trump Tower in New York City.

Hillary Clinton says voters should not be “fooled” by Republican rival Donald Trump’s efforts to rebrand his campaign. Clinton needs to retain support from black and Latino voters to win the November 8 election, the same coalition that helped propel Democrat Barack Obama to the White House in 2008. As explained by NBC News, it is a “blanket term for a loose gathering of conservatives primarily based online that can include everyone from critics of so-called “political correctness” on college campuses to hardcore white supremacists and neo-Nazis”.

“The news reports are that Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists, which we are not”, Trump said at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. “He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party”.

First, the AP threw out any meetings with individuals working in some official capacity on behalf of government agencies both foreign and domestic - as in, the overwhelming majority of Clinton’s meetings.

He described some Mexican immigrants as “criminals and rapists” in a 2015 speech launching his candidacy and more recently questioned the impartiality of an American-born judge of Mexican heritage.

At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color and in MS on Thursday he went so far as to label Clinton “a bigot”. “It’s a exhausted, disgusted argument and is so totally predictable”.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada on August 25, 2016. Advocates speculated that Trump’s goal was to woo independent voters who might support him but are turned off by his harsher stances.

“A man with a long history of racial discrimination who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far dark reaches of the internet should never run our government or command our military”, Clinton said.

“She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists”, Trump said during a rally at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester. “Trump’s missteps, stumbles and gaffes seem to outweigh Clinton’s shaky trust status and perceived shady dealings”. In recent days, he’s suggested he might be open to allowing them to stay.

“And remember, anything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to stand up against the establishment”, Farage said.

Trump met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers.

But Trump’s own approach to deporting undocumented immigrants – once a guarantee – continues to be a mushy muddle.

“As we have expressed numerous times, your rhetoric of relentless attacks against our community is an issue of serious concern and has had a significant impact, fuelling an alarming trend in our nation”, the letter reads.

Clinton is delivering a speech Thursday highlighting Trump’s support within the “alt-right” movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”. Stephen Bannon, who led the right-wing website Breitbart News, is now running Trump’s campaign.

A day after labeling Clinton “a bigot” at a MS rally, Trump continued making the case that Democrats have taken their minority support for granted.