Hillary Clinton’s message for Thursday: Not so fast with that attempt to shed the racist label you’ve so richly earned, Donald Trump. Clinton is set to deliver a speech in Reno highlighting Trump’s white supremacist ties and racist message:
“Trump’s newly installed brain trust of Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes and Roger Stone completes Donald Trump’s disturbing takeover of the Republican party. We intend to call out this ‘alt-right’ shift and the divisive and dystopian vision of America they put forth because it tells voters everything they need to know about Donald Trump himself,” said Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. “Republicans up and down the ticket are going to have to choose whether they want to be complicit in this lurch toward extremism or stand with the voters who can’t stomach it." [...]
The case Clinton is expected to prosecute will center around Trump’s close ties to a movement that’s out of step with rank-and-file Republicans due to its divisiveness and reliance on white nationalism. Fully expecting scads of moderate Republicans to fall in line behind him before Election Day, Clinton’s team is looking to poison his attempt at normalcy.
Clinton will have a lot to work with. Pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record has a video (watch it below) showing some of the support Trump has gotten from white nationalists, while the alt-right movement Trump has flirted with so extensively is using the hashtag #AltRightmeans to define itself as disgustingly racist better than any liberal outsider could ever do.