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Clinton Campaign Manager Suggests Trump Is a 'Puppet' for the Kremlin
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager cautioned against reading too much into the departure of Donald Trump’s campaign chair Paul Manafort, suggesting that Russia is still at the “core” of the Republican nominee’s campaign and that Trump himself could be a “puppet” for the Kremlin. “Paul Manafort has been pushed out, but that doesn’t mean that the Russians have been pushed out of this campaign,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on "This Week." Manafort resigned this week following reports questioning his work as a lobbyist for pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchs. http://abcn.ws/2b9yObI
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Trump: In 4 Years, I'll 'Get Over 95 Percent' of Black Vote
Email Doubling down on appeals to black voters that have become a mainstay of his stump speech this week, Donald Trump made a bold prediction about his ability to attract the support of the African-American community if he gets the chance to run for reelection in 2020. "At the end of four years, I guarantee you I will get over 95 percent of the African-American vote. I promise you," Trump said to a largely white audience Dimondale, Mich., a town where in 2010 just 9 of the town's 1,234 residents were black, according to census data. Beginning with a speech outside Milwaukee on Tuesday, Trump has increasingly tried to woo African-American voters, saying that the group should give Republicans a chance. http://abcn.ws/2bDVKlV
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With Paul Manafort Gone, Who's Left to Run Donald Trump's Campaign?
With the resignation of campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign is now without a single senior figure who has ever run a campaign. Donald Trump's team has always been a lean operation fueled by the candidate himself rather than the organization around him, but from the very beginning the Trump campaign included people who had at least some experience running political campaigns. But now the top ranks of the team include family members, conservative media executive Stephen Bannon and Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, the new campaign manager. None of them have experience managing a campaign. http://abcn.ws/2b7hCqE
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Trump's African-American Supporters Are Unapologetic
Donald Trump's recent overtures to African-Americans has been met with skepticism by many voters. After all, as ABC News previously reported, the Republican presidential nominee has declined invitations to speak at the NAACP, Urban League and the recent National Association of Black Journalists/National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention. Plus, the cities and towns which have hosted the recent rallies at which he's made such overtures, are overwhelmingly white. "If African-American voters give Donald Trump a chance by giving me their vote, the result for them will be amazing," Trump said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday. Even though many voters are suspect of his comments, some African-Americans welcome his words and are supporting his presidential candidacy.http://abcn.ws/2bwPBti
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Judge Orders Clinton to Answer Written Questions About Email Use
A federal judge ruled Friday that Hillary Clinton will have to submit written answers to questions by the conservative group Judicial Watch about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The ruling relates to part of a freedom of information lawsuit playing out in Washington D.C.'s U.S. District Court. Lawyers for Judicial Watch originally asked that Clinton be deposed in person, but the judge did not grant that request. "The Court is persuaded that Secretary Clinton’s testimony is necessary to enable her to explain on the record the purpose for the creation and operation of the clintonemail.com system for State Department business," Judge Emmet G. Sullivan wrote in his order today. http://abcn.ws/2b79cwo
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