Hillary Clinton hits Trump with new ad over his ‘racial outreach’

DEMOCRAT HILLARY Clinton called on Friday for voters to reject what she called the “bigotry” of Donald Trump’s White House campaign, releasing a television ad criticising his efforts to appeal to black voters and saying she was reaching out to people from all parties who are troubled by his candidacy.

The ad shows video of Trump’s controversial pitch to black voters, in which the Republican candidate urges them to support him by asking, “What do you have to lose?” It also shows headlines about a racial discrimination lawsuit the New York real estate mogul faced in the 1970s.

Clinton’s presidential campaign said the ad, released a day after she gave a speech accusing Trump of fueling America’s “radical fringe,” would air in the hotly contested states of Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Earlier in the day she had dubbed the billionaire businessman’s campaign as one that will “make America hate again.”

Clinton followed up her tough speech by saying on Friday that Trump’s temperament and divisiveness made him unfit for the White House. “I am reaching out to everyone, Republicans, Democrats, independents, everyone who is as troubled as I am by the bigotry and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s campaign,” she said, adding she was asking “fair-minded Americans to repudiate this kind of divisive demagoguery”.

Clinton delivered the speech in the middle of a difficult week for her campaign, as the release of new emails from her time as secretary of state revived criticism of her decision to use a private address and server rather than a government one.

The emails also stoked scrutiny of her family’s charitable foundation, including accusations that major corporate and foreign donors gave money in hopes of securing more access to then-secretary Clinton.

AP Hillary Clinton at campaign event in Reno, Nevada, on Thursday.