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Clinton accuses Trump of making 'hate movement mainstream' – campaign live
Clinton accuses Trump of making 'hate movement mainstream' – campaign live
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Here’s a live video stream of the upcoming Clinton speech:
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is drawing attention to Breitbart News’ history of racist, misogynistic and otherwise offensive clickbait headline - a good thing for the site’s traffic, but a bad thing for the presidential campaign that just hired the organization’s chief as its CEO:
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Trump hired the head of Breitbart "News" to be CEO of his campaign. Here's a sample of their work: pic.twitter.com/y8loOnkbNu
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Trump’s done. Clinton up soon. Here’s the bit where he said, “we can be greater than ever before, and African American citizens and Latino citizens will have the time of their life because we are going to create jobs like you’ve never seen”:
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Trump says "African-American citizens and Latino citizens will have the time of their lives" if he's elected pic.twitter.com/Nu7BbcSRLw
Hillary Clinton cites the record level of racial, ethnic and religious diversity on the US Olympic team as proof that young people - “the most open, diverse and connected generation we have ever seen” - are good for the future of the country.
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“How many of you saw the Olympics?” Clinton asks the cheering crowd. “Ibtihaj Muhammad, an African-American Muslim from New Jersey, won the bronze medal in fencing with grace and skill. Would she even have a place in Donald Trump’s America? And I’ll tell you, when I was growing up, in so many parts of our country, Simone Manuel and Katie Ledecky would not have been allowed to swim in the same public pool. And now they’re winning Olympic medals as teammates!”
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“I don’t know about you, but I don’t think we have a person to waste.”
Trump:
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“I’m asking for the vote of every African American and Hispanic American who wants to see, maybe for the first time ever, a better future.”
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Yes we can?
Hillary Clinton tells the audience in Nevada that rising bullying and harassment incidents in American public schools can be traced to the political climate and Donald Trump’s candidacy, because children “hear a lot more than we think”.
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“At a recent high school basketball game in Indiana, white students held up Trump signs and taunted Latino players on the opposing team with chants of ‘Build the wall!’ and ‘Speak English.’”
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“After a similar incident in Iowa, one frustrated school principal said, ‘They see it in a presidential campaign and now it’s OK for everyone to say this.’ We wouldn’t tolerate that kind of behavior before, and we wouldn’t tolerate it in our own homes, and we shouldn’t stand for it from a candidate for president.”
Trump runs through positions denying they're racist
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Trump says that on immigration, national security and crime, people who favor the policies he supports (which are those again?) “are not racists”:
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Trump now defending his policies as not racist, islamophobic, or prejudiced pic.twitter.com/j1bHepaWGA
“No one should have any illusions about what’s really going on here,” Clinton says of the alt-right. “The names may have changed: Racists now call themselves ‘racialists;’ white supremacists now call themselves ‘white nationalists;’ the paranoid fringe now calls itself ‘alt-right;’ But the hate burns just as bright.”
To state the obvious, a major party presidential nominee is giving a lengthy speech on the doorstep of Labor Day to insist he's not a racist
“And now Trump is trying to rebrand himself as well. But don’t be fooled.”
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Trump:
“The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for this group,” Hillary Clinton says of the so-called “alt-right,” a loose confederation of online conservatives who view multiculturalism as a threat to white identity. “A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican party. And this is part of a broader story - the rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism around the world.”
“I see all this stuff handed out over the last few days by the media that Trump doesn’t want to build the wall. Folks, we are building the wall.... remember what I say. Mexico will pay for the wall.”
Clinton lambastes Donald Trump for appearing with Nigel Farage in Mississippi last night, describing the former head of Ukip as someone “who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum on leaving the European Union.”
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“Farage has called for a ban on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are, quote, ‘worth less’ than men and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race - that’s who Trump wants by his side when speaking to Americans.”
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Trump invites his supporters to see Clinton’s imminent description of his “long history of racial discrimination” as a personal attack on all of them:
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Here’s the central point I want to make. Hillary Clinton isn’t just attacking me. She’s attacking all of the decent people of all backgrounds who support this incredible, once in a lifetime movement. Never seen anything like it.
Sample Breitbart News headlines Clinton read out loud:
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“Just imagine,” Clinton says. “Donald Trump reading that and thinking: ‘this is what I need more of in my campaign.’”
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Clinton to say Trump has 'long history of racial discrimination'
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The Clinton campaign has just released excerpts of her speech to be delivered in Reno, Nevada. Here they are in full:
Hillary Clinton compares Donald Trump's immigration stance to Isis
From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous.
Hillary Clinton dismisses Donald Trump’s latest “pivot” on the issue of undocumented immigrants: “He may have some new people putting new words in his mouth, but we know where he stands.”
This is what I want to make clear today: 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 reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military. If he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?
“He would form a deportation force to round up millions of immigrants and kick them out of the country,” Clinton continues. “He’d abolish the bedrock constitutional principle that says if you’re born in the United States, you’re an American citizen. He says that children born in America to undocumented parents are, quote, ‘anchor babies’ and should be deported. Millions of them.”
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“Ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, America has distinguished itself as a haven for people fleeing religious persecution, believing in religious freedom and religious liberty,” Clinton says. “Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.”
Alt-Right is short for “Alternative Right.” The Wall Street Journal describes it as a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.”
But, Clinton says, “there actually may be one place that does that: It’s the so-called Islamic State.”
The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the “Alt-Right.” A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party.
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All of this adds up to something we’ve never seen before. Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.
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On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant. “We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,” one white supremacist said. Duke laughed. There’s still more work to do, he said.
Hillary Clinton, on Donald Trump’s embrace of conspiracy:
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The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference - or doesn’t care to - between fact and fiction, and who buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors.
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Trump has delivered his favorite pitch of late to African American voters, but he spices it up a bit in this delivery:
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What the hell do you have to lose? It can’t get any worse than it is right now.
Highlighting Donald Trump’s longtime embrace of fringe conspiracy theories, Hillary Clinton repeats a series of anecdotes from the course of the campaign:
Trump: Democrats have been making a fortune "running the inner cities" & "destroying those people." "this is actually a civil rights issue"
Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones. Trump said thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks. They didn’t.
Once you understand that Trump's mental image of black America is a scene from The Warriors, this all makes sense. https://t.co/gquhP7DdCb
He suggested that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the Kennedy assassination. Perhaps in Trump’s mind, because he was a Cuban immigrant, he must have had something to do with it. Of course there’s absolutely no evidence of that.
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Just recently, Trump claimed President Obama founded Isis. And then he repeated that nonsense over and over. His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health.
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All I can say is: Donald, dream on.
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“This is what happens,” Clinton continues, “when you treat the National Enquirer like gospel. They said in October I’d be dead in six months! It’s also what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claimed that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He even said - and this, really, is jsut so disgusting - he even said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there. I don’t know what happens in somebody’s mind, or how dark their heart must be to say things like that, but Trump didn’t challenge those lies. He actually went on Jones’ show and said: ‘Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.’”
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“This from the man who wants to be president of the United States.”
Trump: Clinton 'will accuse us of being racists, which we're not'
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Trump refers to the speech Clinton is about to give in Nevada. He says she will frame him as a racist and calls it “the oldest play in the Democratic playbook”:
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I hear, for the first time in a long time, she’ll be making some kind of a quick statement tonight.
“To this day, he’s never apologized to Judge Curiel,” Clinton says, referring to Donald Trump’s attack on the federal judge presiding over the Trump University fraud case, in which he described Curiel’s assignment to the case as “an absolute conflict” because he is “of Mexican heritage”.
Then he calls it “one of the most brazen attempts at distraction in the history of politics. I’ve not seen what Hillary is gonna say, but I’ve heard about it... a response is required for the sake of all decent voters that she is trying to smear.
“But for Trump, that’s just par for the course.”
The news reports are that Hillary Clinton is going to accuse this campaign and all of you and the millions of decent Americans at record levels... who support this campaign... of being racists, which we’re not. It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook. When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one tired argument. You’re racist you’re racist you’re racist, they keep saying it. It’s a tired disgusting argument. And it’s so predictable... it’s the last refuge of the discredited Democratic politician. They keep going back to the same well.
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But you know what?... The people are too smart. The well is dry.
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Sweet chyron from MSNBC (via @jeisrael) pic.twitter.com/9h90gkxbq3
Quoting poet and author Maya Angelou, Hillary Clinton tells the crowd: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
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“When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants,” Clinton says, referring to Donald Trump’s well-documented civil-rights suit in the 1970s. “Their applications would be marked with a ‘C’ – ‘C’ for ‘colored’ – and then rejected. Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn’t changed. The pattern continued through the decades.”
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The trend continued, Clinton says: “State regulators fined one of Trump’s casinos for repeatedly removing black dealers from the floor. No wonder the turn-over rate for his minority employees was way above average.”
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Trump says “she’s being totally protected by our government” in her criminal activities.
He says as president Clinton will sell the White House “like she sold the state department.”
“Vote to save your country,” he says.
“And by the way folks, if you’re looking at the poll numbers, take a look, we’re doing very well.”
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Trump: Clinton led 'major criminal enterprise'
Trump accuses Clinton of heading up “a major criminal enterprise.”
“Lock her up!” the crowd chants.
“She created a private, illegal email server in order to hide her corrupt dealings,” Trump says.
“People that did 2% of what she did, their lives have been destroyed. But she didn’t care. As long as it helped her get away with her crime – no risk to America was too great.”
He continuously refers to Clinton’s ‘criminal cover-up.’
“We now know this to be one more massive Clinton lie and deception.
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Trump is introduced by Ben Carson. Then Trump takes the stage and says “the real divide in this election is not between left and right but between everyday working people and a corrupt political establishment that only works for itself.”
He says there are 74 days until the election. Most counts have 75 days. It depends on whether you include election day, 8 November.
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Donald Trump is scheduled to speak shortly in Manchester, New Hampshire. Here is a live video stream:
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Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill agrees with the Trump campaign that the rhetoric in the new Clinton ad featuring white supremacists praising Trump is repulsive:
The "rhetoric" in this ad comes from Trump supporters talking about Trump. So yes, agree completely. https://t.co/kN45RLVp6Y
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Trump campaign calls Clinton ad 'sickening'
The Trump campaign has released a statement from South Carolina Pastor Mark Burns, its controversial surrogate, calling on Hillary Clinton to disavow her new video spot featuring white supremacists praising Donald Trump.
Here’s the statement, in full:
Hillary Clinton and her campaign went to a disgusting new low today as they released a video tying the Trump Campaign with horrific racial images. This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale. I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world.” - Pastor Mark Burns
Here’s the Clinton ad:
There's a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump.https://t.co/AqB3DM2m0N
The national Quinnipiac poll that just came out has Clinton leading Trump among nonwhite likely voters by 62 points, 77-15. Trump leads Clinton 52-41 among white likely voters and Trump leads Clinton 59-32 among male likely voters, according to the poll.
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National poll of likely voters has Clinton up 10 points
The pollsters at Quinnipiac University, where a house effect favoring Republicans has been detected, have conducted their first national poll of likely voters and found Clinton ahead of Trump in a head-to-head race by 10 points, 51-41. In such a race, Clinton also draws a majority of voters, the survey found:
Q poll - likely voters: Clinton 51, Trump 41. 4-way: Clinton 45, Trump 38, Johnson 10, Stein 4. Via @chrisdonato04
Note that the poll has Clinton up by seven points in a four-way race. That’s right on the mark with an Ipsos-Reuters poll conducted over August 20-24. Polling averages have Clinton ahead in the four-way race by about seven points (HuffPost Pollster) and four points (RealClearPolitics).
Separately, a new poll of Michigan has Clinton ahead by seven points in a four-way race. In a head-to-head race, polling averages have Clinton up by about eight points in the state, which awards 16 electoral votes and hasn’t gone Republican since the 1980s:
New Suffolk poll of Michigan --Clinton: 44Trump: 37Johnson: 5Stein: 38/22 to 8/24, 500 LVs, MOE 4.4
Suffolk has Clinton+7 in Michigan, probably one of Trump's better polls in a while https://t.co/A35e2P50S8
Polls over the past few days have been a cherrypicker's delight. Everything's either "wow, not bad at all!" for Trump or utterly terrible.
Here's the deal. Over the past three weeks, our polls-only model has had Clinton with between an 80% and 90% chance of winning. Race=static.
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A pro-Trump rally has been planned for outside the US embassy in Moscow, notes the former US ambassador to Russia:
Note followers in US: a protest in Moscow planned in support of Trump, against Clinton outside of US embassy. https://t.co/6lKqUd5n5G
