| | | | Trump takes immigration high-wire act to Phoenix | | Donald Trump played nice in Mexico City this afternoon, praising President Enrique Peña Nieto, calling Mexicans "spectacular" and telling reporters they didn't discuss who will foot the bill for the border wall that Trump has, from the outset of his campaign, insisted he'll build and get Mexico to pay for.
Now, Trump is headed to Phoenix, where he'll deliver a much-anticipated speech on immigration policy at 9 p.m. ET. The big question: Will he keep shifting away from the incendiary language and policy positions that helped him win the Republican primary, such as calls for a "deportation force" to boot all undocumented immigrants from the United States?
He'll try to clarify positions that CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports he's muddied in recent weeks. It's a tough task: Trump will have to walk a tightrope, keeping the supporters he won by making a no-compromises immigration stance the animating cause of his primary campaign while also offering a more serious and sober policy prescription intended to sway uncomfortable swing-state moderates.
How did Trump's Mexico trip go? Here are some of the reviews: | | | There was, though, one big omission ... | | "Who pays for the wall? We didn't discuss that." -- Donald Trump, staying away from the issue that he raises at every campaign event. | | | | MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough intensified his trolling of Donald Trump with this new music video about the man he's dubbed "Amnesty Don." | | North Carolina voter ID decision could help Democrats | | Democrats got a big boost in their push to turn North Carolina blue for Hillary Clinton -- and help Senate challenger Deborah Ross unseat GOP incumbent Sen. Richard Burr -- with a Supreme Court decision today. Justices voted 4-4, leaving North Carolina unable to allow portions of its controversial voting law to go back into effect.
What this means: Voter ID requirements that Democrats view as particularly harmful to poor and minority voters won't be in place in November. And North Carolina will have 17 days of early voting, rather than 10. More from CNN's Ariane de Vogue and Dan Berman.
How important is this ruling? Check out this tweet from ex-President Barack Obama senior aide Dan Pfeiffer, now a CNN political contributor: | | | John Hinckley Jr. -- who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity -- is now out of the psychiatric hospital in Washington where he's spent the last three decades. CNN's Mary Kay Mallonee looks at his attempts to adjust to life now. (Above, he's visiting a Subway in Williamsburg, Virginia.) | | Pro-trade Democrats roll over labor's challengers | | After Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz survived her primary challenge last night, Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere picked up on a trend: Labor unions' threats to oust Democrats who voted for President Barack Obama's trade promotion authority bill have fallen entirely flat.
The big takeaway, from Dovere: "Cutting against what has quickly become the political conventional wisdom that (Bernie) Sanders and Donald Trump were propelled by widespread opposition to new trade deals, of the 28 House Democrats who were targeted by organized labor and the progressive base for supporting fast-track, Wasserman Schultz is now the 28th who either skated through a primary challenge or didn't get one at all."
Were liberal challengers betrayed? Ask retired teacher Myron Buchholz, who was destroyed by pro-trade Rep. Ron Kind in Wisconsin's primary, about whether the promised labor support materialized. "They're liars," Buchholz told Dovere of labor leaders. "The Communication Workers of America sent me a letter and no money. The AFL-CIO shut me out completely." | | Pro-Clinton 'Priorities' makes $6 million minority play | | | A scoop from CNN's Dan Merica: Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA is set to begin $6 million worth of ads targeting Latino and African-American voters on September 26, running through Election Day. Priorities has joined with The Latino Victory Project, El Super Pac Voto Latino and People for the American Way's "Latinos Vote!" to air more than $3 million worth of Spanish language TV and radio ads in Florida and Nevada. That's on top of Priorities' reservation of nearly $3 million in ads targeting African-American voters in the swing states of Ohio, North Carolina and Florida. | | | Donald Trump will receive his second classified intelligence briefing on Friday. ... Trump hasn't actually spent the $10 million on TV ads next week that his campaign said it would spend. ... Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Kentucky, will resign from Congress next week amid an ethics investigation. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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