HRC is using the oldest play in the Dem playbook- when their policies fail, they are left w/this one tired argument!https://t.co/FNbCMmwLTn
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2016
At a rally in Manchester, N.H. on Thursday, Donald Trump attempted to get out ahead of Hillary Clinton’s plan to link his candidacy to the racist alt-right movement at a campaign event later that day. Excerpts of Clinton’s remarks were leaked in advance, Donald Trump wasted no time responding — before she even got a chance to make them:
“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 — your 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 totally predictable. They’re failing so badly. It’s the last refuge of the discredited Democrat politician. They keep going back to this same well, but the well has run dry.”
Clinton gave prepared remarks in Reno, Nev. today that connected Trump’s candidacy to the rise of a radical white supremacist faction of the Republican party. “There’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment,” Clinton said. “But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.”
In a campaign ad released Thursday morning, Hillary Clinton links Donald Trump and his new CEO Stephan Brennon to the wider alt-right movement, which the ad calls a “dressed-up-in-suits version of the Neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements.”
Watch Trump’s full speech below (he says, “Shame on you” to Clinton’s team for trying to smear him), and read a full transcript here.
