Trump says he’ll speak Wednesday on immigration
He vowed to work with communities, with police and federal law enforcement officials to boost safety and security in all communities.
Addressing a predominantly white audience at Iowa Sen.
But 11 weeks before the election, Trump is suddenly sounding a lot like the opponents he repeatedly ridiculed.
“Nothing means more to me than working to make our party the home of the African-American voter once again”, Trump said.
“I hear him not talking to black people, but talking to white people about black people so they will think he cares about black people”, former Atlanta newspaper publisher Alexis Scott told The New York Times in a story published on Wednesday. This came after initial criticism that Trump had politicized the killing in a tweet.
Some Republicans, including pollster Whit Ayres, have said Trump’s outreach to African-American voters has more to do with bolstering his image among white voters who are uncomfortable with his campaign.
But the firebrand GOP candidate has struggled with winning over minority voters. Pence also did not answer whether the campaign believes, as Trump has said, that children born to people who are in the USA illegally are not US citizens.
“General cluelessness about racial dynamics will diminish any possible black support that comes from Trump’s emphasis on job creation”, she said.
But it’s not clear what he’ll say, apparently even to his top supporters.
Is it too late for Donald Trump?
“I’m sorry, but the majority of the people are the people that voted him into that position who got him there to begin with”, Beth Smith says.
But Trump was saddled with another inflammatory revelation Friday when court papers surfaced showing that an ex-wife of Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school almost a decade ago.
Some criticized his record with African American voters, accusing him of trying to appeal to them too late.
A few hours later, he followed up with a tweet offering condolences to Wade and his family. “They are in my thoughts and prayers”, he wrote. “Mrs. Clinton has started the idea of calling Donald Trump those type of names, and the fact is that once you are the person, and Mrs. Clinton is the person, who injected this type of commentary into this race you can’t then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it”.
Branstad told The Associated Press on Saturday that he’s going to personally deliver that message to Trump when they share a ride to a campaign stop at the state fairgrounds. The current standard is set to expire in 2022.
Branstad says Trump should also emphasize his opposition to a clean water rule enacted by the Obama administration.
Trump is 70 and Clinton is 68. Trump is running neck and neck with Clinton in polls in the state with 72 days until the November 8 election.
Kaine was at a campaign event in South Florida on Saturday.
“By the way, how quickly people have forgotten that Hillary Clinton called black youth “super predators” Remember that?” “We’re doing really well”. Donald Trump is taking a slightly different approach. Joni Ernst’s Roast and Ride fundraiser, which features a motorcycle ride and barbeque.
“This shouldn’t happen in our country”, Trump said in Des Moines.
Trump lost the lead-off Iowa caucuses to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. But much of the state’s Republican establishment has since rallied around Trump. He’s chairman of the senate judiciary committee and refuses to hold confirmation hearings for President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland. He briefly pivoted to what he said was Clinton’s plan for the agricultural economy: to “shut down family farms just like she wants to shut down the mines and the steelworkers”.
But the briefing Saturday in suburban NY is her first since she became her party’s nominee.