Hillary Clinton seeks to connect Donald Trump's campaign to 'Alt-Right' politics

NEW YORK: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday plans to press her view that Republican opponent Donald Trump "is taking a hate movement mainstream" and link his candidacy to the so-called alt-right wing of American politics.

"Donald Trump has shown us who he is, and we ought to believe him," Clinton said on Wednesday on CNN. He's "someone who's questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who's been sued for housing discrimination against communities of colour, who's attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force".

She said she would say more about Trump's "peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia" in a speech set for Thursday afternoon in Reno, Nevada. Her campaign has billed the speech — which follows a string of politically troubling developments for Clinton related to her private e-mail and her family's foundation — as focusing on "Trump and his advisors' embrace of the disturbing 'alt-right' political philosophy".

The alt-right movement casts itself as an alternative to mainstream conservatism that is proudly opposed to immigration and racial diversity. Clinton's attempt to establish a link for voters between Trump and the alt-right comes at a pivotal time for the Republican's strategy ahead of the November election.