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| Trump campaign to clarify immigration policy amid mixed signals – live | Trump campaign to clarify immigration policy amid mixed signals – live |
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| Trump: 'I will stop the slaughter going on' in American cities | |
| Donald Trump tweets this morning that he “will stop the slaughter going on” in inner cities, and the candidate wonders how much more violence “will it take” for voters to turn to him. | |
| Inner-city crime is reaching record levels. African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on! | |
| Look how bad it is getting! How much more crime, how many more shootings, will it take for African-Americans and Latinos to vote Trump=SAFE! | |
| Trump’s Twitter storm this morning (there are more tweets where those came from) rests on an assertion he made prominently at the Republican convention last month, that “decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement.” | |
| In fact, there has been a recent spike in murders in 36 of the 50 biggest cities in America (in 2015 the homicide rate increased 54.3% in Washington and 58.5% in Baltimore), the Guardian’s David Smith and Scott Bixby wrote: | |
| But in the first three months of 2016, the picture was more mixed, according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association: New York, for example, recorded a 25% fall in homicides. The Brennan Center responds: “Over the past 25 years, crime in major cities has fallen 66%. In the country as a whole, violent crime is half of what it was in 1991, and has gone down 26% in the last decade. Property crime is down 43% in the past 25 years. No single year change has reversed that trend. Instead, the murder rate for 2015 remains close to 2012 levels – just barely above recent, historic lows.” | |
| Trump says urban crime is reaching record levels, cities are war zones. Chicago statistics. https://t.co/rRKlOHiSPo pic.twitter.com/V4mreiZVfx | |
| It can seem a bit silly, though, to brandish statistics to illustrate the fundamental wrongness of Trump’s vision of the American city as an unmitigated hellscape. Hillary Clinton made the point last week in a speech about Trump’s “long history of racial discrimination.” “When I hear them, I think to myself: How sad. Donald Trump misses so much,” Clinton said, continuing: | |
| He doesn’t see the success of black leaders in every field, the vibrancy of black-owned businesses, the strength of the black church. | |
| He doesn’t see the excellence of historically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive. And he apparently didn’t see Police Chief Brown on television after the murders of five of his officers conducting himself with such dignity. He certainly doesn’t have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create more equity and opportunity in communities of color and for every American. | |
| It really does take a lot of nerve to ask people he’s ignored and mistreated for decades, “What do you have to lose?” Because the answer is: Everything. | |
| Now, Trump’s lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough. | |
| But what he’s doing here is more sinister. | |
| Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. | |
| It’s a disturbing preview of what kind of president he’d be. | |
| Trump has not said what he would do to stop, for example, gun violence in some cities. Indiana governor Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, was asked on Sunday about consistent findings by Chicago police that most out-of-state guns recovered in Chicago originated in Indiana. Pence rejected the correlation between his state’s lax gun laws and violent crime across the border, saying that “firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens” make everyone safer. | |
| Trump accuses the Obama administration of a “rollback of criminal enforcement.” Will he stop crime by hiring more cops? Does Trump advocate stop-and-frisk? Or the kind of “broken-windows” law enforcement tactics his adviser Rudy Giuliani advanced in New York? Does he plan to solve urban crime with new employment, education or housing policies? | |
| When do we find out? Maybe next Saturday, when Trump is scheduled to speak at a Detroit church and “answer questions that are relevant to the African American community,” his campaign has announced. | |
| Now that African-Americans are seeing what a bad job Hillary type policy and management has done to the inner-cities, they want TRUMP! | |
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| 2.29pm BST | 2.29pm BST |
| 14:29 | 14:29 |
| The Hillary Clinton campaign was confronted with an unpleasant distraction on Monday morning as the New York Post published a front-page story about newly revealed, explicit Twitter messages sent by former congressman Anthony Weiner to a woman he met online. Weiner is married to Huma Abedin, Clinton’s closest aide. | The Hillary Clinton campaign was confronted with an unpleasant distraction on Monday morning as the New York Post published a front-page story about newly revealed, explicit Twitter messages sent by former congressman Anthony Weiner to a woman he met online. Weiner is married to Huma Abedin, Clinton’s closest aide. |
| The latest messages appear to be another installment in a long-running pattern of conduct by Weiner online that has made a public spectacle of his marriage and recalled the sex scandals attached to Clinton’s own marriage. | The latest messages appear to be another installment in a long-running pattern of conduct by Weiner online that has made a public spectacle of his marriage and recalled the sex scandals attached to Clinton’s own marriage. |
| Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 after similar explicit messages came to light. His 2013 New York City mayoral bid foundered on a similar scandal. | Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 after similar explicit messages came to light. His 2013 New York City mayoral bid foundered on a similar scandal. |
| Weiner’s Twitter account has been deleted. The Clinton campaign did not immediately reply to a request for comment. | Weiner’s Twitter account has been deleted. The Clinton campaign did not immediately reply to a request for comment. |
| The Post on Monday published texts and images said to have been sent and received by Weiner about a year ago, in July 2015. The images include one that appears to have been sent by Weiner in which his young son, asleep, is visible in the background. | The Post on Monday published texts and images said to have been sent and received by Weiner about a year ago, in July 2015. The images include one that appears to have been sent by Weiner in which his young son, asleep, is visible in the background. |
| As his mayoral bid collapsed, Abedin, already anticipating Clinton’s presidential run, appeared alongside Weiner and expressed support for him. She did not appear at a concession speech he gave at the end of the campaign. She travels constantly with Clinton. | As his mayoral bid collapsed, Abedin, already anticipating Clinton’s presidential run, appeared alongside Weiner and expressed support for him. She did not appear at a concession speech he gave at the end of the campaign. She travels constantly with Clinton. |
| The disintegrating mayoral bid, and the couple’s efforts to prevent the same from happening to their marriage, were the subject of an award-winning documentary released this year, Weiner. | The disintegrating mayoral bid, and the couple’s efforts to prevent the same from happening to their marriage, were the subject of an award-winning documentary released this year, Weiner. |
| Earlier this month, Weiner revealed that Abedin never agreed to the documentary. | Earlier this month, Weiner revealed that Abedin never agreed to the documentary. |
| Update: Donald Trump has sent a tweet questioning Clinton’s judgment, without mentioning Weiner by name: | Update: Donald Trump has sent a tweet questioning Clinton’s judgment, without mentioning Weiner by name: |
| Crooked Hillary's brainpower is highly overrated.Probably why her decision making is so bad or, as stated by Bernie S, she has BAD JUDGEMENT | Crooked Hillary's brainpower is highly overrated.Probably why her decision making is so bad or, as stated by Bernie S, she has BAD JUDGEMENT |
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| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Donald Trump has announced a date for what he bills as “a major speech on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION” – Wednesday in the “GREAT State of Arizona”. | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Donald Trump has announced a date for what he bills as “a major speech on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION” – Wednesday in the “GREAT State of Arizona”. |
| I will be making a major speech on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION on Wednesday in the GREAT State of Arizona. Big crowds, looking for a larger venue. | I will be making a major speech on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION on Wednesday in the GREAT State of Arizona. Big crowds, looking for a larger venue. |
| Trump surrogates have said he will use the speech to clarify his immigration proposals. The candidate appears to be backing away from a proposal to stand up a “deportation force” to remove millions of undocumented migrants from the country. Trump’s running mate Mike Pence and New Jersey governor Chris Christie insisted at the weekend that the candidate’s position on immigration had not changed. | Trump surrogates have said he will use the speech to clarify his immigration proposals. The candidate appears to be backing away from a proposal to stand up a “deportation force” to remove millions of undocumented migrants from the country. Trump’s running mate Mike Pence and New Jersey governor Chris Christie insisted at the weekend that the candidate’s position on immigration had not changed. |
| The Trump campaign has reserved “upward of $10m” in TV ad time in nine states “in the next week or so”, AP reports, including states where Trump’s poll numbers have lagged such as Virginia and Colorado. The buy brings the Trump campaign’s total TV ad spending to about $15m, versus $77m for the Hillary Clinton campaign. | The Trump campaign has reserved “upward of $10m” in TV ad time in nine states “in the next week or so”, AP reports, including states where Trump’s poll numbers have lagged such as Virginia and Colorado. The buy brings the Trump campaign’s total TV ad spending to about $15m, versus $77m for the Hillary Clinton campaign. |
| The Trump campaign is also out with a new ad this morning, offering contrasting visions of what would happen to the American economy under a Trump presidency versus a Clinton presidency: | The Trump campaign is also out with a new ad this morning, offering contrasting visions of what would happen to the American economy under a Trump presidency versus a Clinton presidency: |
| Can Trump catch Clinton in the 71 days remaining until election day (with early voting in dozens of states a month away)? Polling averages depict a static race through the month of August, with Clinton leading by between six and eight points. New polling by Emerson College, which FiveThirtyEight has found has a measurable house effect in favor of Republicans, has Trump within three points of Clinton in a four-way race in Pennsylvania, where head-to-head averages have her up seven points. Morning Consult released a national poll yesterday showing Trump within three points of Clinton after having trailed by six points a week earlier. Is he gaining? The signals are mixed. | Can Trump catch Clinton in the 71 days remaining until election day (with early voting in dozens of states a month away)? Polling averages depict a static race through the month of August, with Clinton leading by between six and eight points. New polling by Emerson College, which FiveThirtyEight has found has a measurable house effect in favor of Republicans, has Trump within three points of Clinton in a four-way race in Pennsylvania, where head-to-head averages have her up seven points. Morning Consult released a national poll yesterday showing Trump within three points of Clinton after having trailed by six points a week earlier. Is he gaining? The signals are mixed. |
| In conversations in Nascar country, Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts found some skepticism about the Republican candidate. | In conversations in Nascar country, Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts found some skepticism about the Republican candidate. |
| New Weiner sexts revealed | New Weiner sexts revealed |
| This has happened: | This has happened: |
| .@anthonyweiner's Twitter account has been deleted pic.twitter.com/l0DftDzJIn | .@anthonyweiner's Twitter account has been deleted pic.twitter.com/l0DftDzJIn |
| Presumably because this happened (that link takes you to the New York Post coverage of previously unseen, by the public, sexts by Anthony Weiner, from a year ago). | Presumably because this happened (that link takes you to the New York Post coverage of previously unseen, by the public, sexts by Anthony Weiner, from a year ago). |
| When you see Anthony Weiner is trending. pic.twitter.com/h9xT3Gzyn7 | When you see Anthony Weiner is trending. pic.twitter.com/h9xT3Gzyn7 |
| Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. |