Donald Trump spoke about the importance of of not judging people based on their race or ethnicity during a Friday speech at the 2016 Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C. The conference is a huge event for the country's religious conservative groups, with whom Trump noted that he has "done very well" in the polls. "Freedom of any kind means no one should be judged by their race or their color and the color of their skin — should not be judged that way," Trump said, before promising that he would specifically "respect and defend Christian Americans."
Despite a brief interruption at the beginning of Trump's speech by protestors shouting "refugees are welcome here" and "no hate," the presumptive GOP nominee was able to fit in a full array of attacks against Hillary Clinton, alongside his newly debuted calls for a united nation. Trump said that while Clinton would wreak havoc on the economy and on the lives of poor Americans, if he wins, "we're going to bring our nation together."
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