Hillary Clinton’s campaign sent out a fundraising email Tuesday that heavily connected Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump to white supremacy.
The email started off focused on Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King’s comments Monday night. The congressman was responding to claims that Trump’s candidacy is the “last time that old white people will command the Republican Party’s attention.”
King said, “This ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired… I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you’re talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
The Clinton campaign pounced on this saying, “King’s comments were widely reported as a textbook example of white supremacy, and it wasn’t the first time the Party of Trump has had a disturbing connection to white supremacy in recent months.” This came in a fundraising email titled “This is literally white supremacy, [fill in name of recipient].”
The email went on to say, “We’re going to keep calling Trump out on the deplorable ideas he perpetuates, and we’re going to keep fighting to win the White House this November — not just by a few votes, but by an overwhelming majority — to show Trump, white supremacists, and the world in no uncertain terms that here in America, we don’t stand for hatred.”
“I’m asking you to draw a line in the sand. Send a message to Donald Trump and the white supremacists who stand with him that we will not allow them to poison our country with their disgusting, bigoted beliefs,” the email concluded before asking for one dollar.