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		</div><p>Donald Trump has insisted drugs played &#8220;a very, very big factor&#8221; in violent protests that erupted in North Carolina overnight following the police shooting of a black man.</p>
<p>The Republican presidential candidate warned African-American protesters that their outrage was creating suffering in their own communities.</p>
<p>It was another day of mixed messages on a delicate issue from Mr Trump, who was eager to blunt criticism that his campaign inspires racism in the midst of what he called &#8220;a national crisis&#8221;.</p>
<p>The National Guard was activated to calm fierce protests that followed police shootings of black men in North Carolina and Oklahoma.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has sought to express empathy, but his words could rankle some in the African-American community.</p>
<p>&#8220;The people who will suffer the most as a result of these riots are law-abiding African-American residents who live in these communities where the crime is so rampant,&#8221; Mr Trump declared at an energy conference in Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;Drugs are a very, very big factor in what you&#8217;re watching on television at night.&#8221;</p>
<p>Democrat Hillary Clinton did not address escalating racial tensions on Thursday as she prepared for her first debate-stage meeting with Mr Trump.</p>
<p>She took a swipe at her opponent, albeit in a humorous way, in an interview on comic Zach Galifianakis&#8217; internet show Between Two Ferns.</p>
<p>The comedian asked her what Mr Trump might wear to Monday&#8217;s debate.</p>
<p>&#8220;I assume he&#8217;ll wear that red power tie,&#8221; Mrs Clinton said. Galifianakis responded: &#8220;Or maybe like a white power tie.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s even more appropriate,&#8221; Mrs Clinton said.</p>
<p>Both candidates are working to navigate the politics of race with Election Day less than seven weeks away and early voting about to begin in some states.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, in particular, has struggled to balance a message that appeals to his white, working-class base with one that improves his standing with minorities and educated whites who may worry about racial undertones in his candidacy.</p>
<p>He was slow to disavow former KKK leader David Duke earlier in the year and has repeatedly promoted tweets by white supremacists during his White House bid.</p>
<p>The Republican nominee admitted for the first time publicly last week that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. And as recently as last week, Mr Trump&#8217;s eldest son tweeted a meme commonly used by white nationalists.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Mr Trump tried at times to project a softer message, calling for a nation united in &#8220;the spirit of togetherness&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;We all have to walk a mile in someone else&#8217;s shoes, see things through their eyes, and then get to work fixing our very wounded country.&#8221;</p>
<p>The message was complicated by his own suggestion that protesters outraged by the police shootings of black men were under the influence of drugs. </p>
<p>Earlier in the day, he also called for Chicago to adopt &#8220;stop and frisk&#8221; policing tactics that have been condemned as racial profiling.</p>
<p>At the same time in neighbouring Ohio, Mr Trump&#8217;s Mahoning County chair Kathy Miller, a volunteer, came under fire after telling the Guardian newspaper: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there was any racism until Obama got elected.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Trump campaign accepted her resignation after what a spokesman called &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; comments.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton has faced criticism of her own for saying half of Mr Trump&#8217;s supporters belong in a &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; because they are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.</p>
<p>The Democratic nominee has also made curbing gun violence and police brutality a central part of her candidacy.</p>
<p>She said on Wednesday that shootings in Oklahoma and North Carolina added two more names &#8220;to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers. It&#8217;s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton has campaigned alongside a group of black women called the Mothers Of The Movement, who advocated for more accountability and transparency by law enforcement. </p>
<p>The group includes the mothers of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, black victims of high-profile killings.<br />
Mr Trump said new leadership is required to address the situation.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a national crisis,&#8221; he said without mentioning the black men shot by police in recent days.</p>
<p>He said that &#8220;it&#8217;s the job of the next president of the United States to work with our governors and mayors to address this crisis and save African-American lives&#8221;.</p>
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