The Latest: Foreign officials say Trump appealing for funds
By Associated Press
Jun 29, 2016 2:22 PM CDT
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a Digital Content Creators Town Hall at the Neuehouse Hollywood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)   (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the US presidential campaign (all times local):

3:20 p.m.

Foreign officials are complaining that they're being "bombarded" by fundraising appeals from U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. And now, two watchdog groups are filing complaints against the Republican's campaign saying the practice breaks the law.

Sir Roger Gale, a member of the British Parliament, complained in the House of Commons Tuesday that his fellow lawmakers are getting flooded with appeals from "somebody called Donald Trump." He says he does not think his colleagues "should be subjected to intemperate spam."

The complaint by watchdog groups Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 say the emails violated a federal law designed to prohibit foreign money in U.S. campaigns.

The complaint cites news reports that politicians in Iceland, Australia and Scotland also have received solicitations on their official email accounts. Campaign Legal Center spokesman Paul S. Ryan said, "Donald Trump should have known better."

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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1:25 p.m.

America's largest Hispanic civil rights group says it will not be inviting any presidential candidate to its national conference next month in Orlando.

In a statement Wednesday, Janet Murguía, president of the National Council of La Raza, said the decision was the result of Donald Trump's "concerted effort to denigrate and demonize" immigrants and the Hispanic community.

Trump has pledged to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and deport all 11 million immigrants in the country illegally. About two in three U.S. Hispanics are of Mexican descent.

For decades, NCLR, has invited candidates from both major parties. As a nonpartisan group, it said it could not invite Democrat Hillary Clinton without inviting Trump.

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10:50 a.m.

President Barack Obama and the woman who wants to succeed him are making their first campaign appearance together next week.

Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton, who was his secretary of state, are campaigning together Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina. That's a swing state that Obama won in 2008 but lost in 2012. Democrats dearly want to take North Carolina in the November election, when Clinton is likely to run against Republican Donald Trump.

North Carolina is home to 15 electoral votes. A candidate needs 270 to win the presidency.

Clinton's campaign said in a statement Tuesday that she and Obama will discuss their vision "for an American that is stronger together."

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10:25 a.m.

Donald Trump is firing back at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which says his trade plans could damage the U.S. economy.

Trump, in a tweet Wednesday, said the Chamber "must fight harder for the American worker. China, and many others, are taking advantage of U.S. with our terrible trade pacts."

In a speech Tuesday, Trump said he would tear up U.S. trade deals. He threatened new tariffs and called for a new era of economic "Americanism."

The Chamber, a traditional Republican ally, said his proposals would lead to higher prices, fewer jobs and a weaker economy.

In another tweet Wednesday, Trump said: "Why would the USChamber be upset by the fact that I want to negotiate better and stronger trade deals or that I want penalties for cheaters?"

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7:15 a.m.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is arguing that "the global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and the world."

Sanders, who hasn't yet abandoned his presidential campaign, writes in a New York Times op-ed Wednesday that Republican Donald Trump "could benefit from the same forces" that led Britain to vote to leave the European Union. He says that any political advantage flowing to Trump from this market-moving vote "should sound an alarm for the Democratic Party."

Sanders hasn't conceded the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton, although he has said he would vote for her.

In his Times article, Sanders said that American voters, like those who supported bolting the EU, "are understandably angry and frustrated by the economic forces that are destroying the middle class."

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