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It was Trump's second stop of the day on the campaign trail.

Donald Trump hosted event No. 2 of the day for him in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday night, after talking to a crowd in Tampa, Florida earlier in the day.


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Trump spoke at Mississippi Coliseum at 7 p.m. Eastern time in a state that has voted for a Republican president in the last 10 elections and where Trump holds a healthy lead over Hillary Clinton.

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The most recent poll taken in the state, conducted by Magellan Strategies, gave Trump a 15-point lead over Clinton head-to-head and a 13-point lead when two other independent candidates were factored in. That poll surveyed 1,084 people on August 11 and had a 2.9 percent margin of error.

You can watch a video of Trump's remarks below:

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Trump started his day in Tampa, Florida, where he spoke to a crowd at the Florida State Fairgrounds' Entertainment Hall.

He continues to walk back his aggressive stance on immigration issues, saying he would "do the same thing" as President Obama and former president George W. Bush but perhaps with "more energy" when it comes to undocumented immigrants.

"We are going to obey the existing laws. Now, the existing laws are very strong. The existing laws, the first thing we are going to do if and when I win, is we are going to get rid of all of the bad ones," Trump said in a Fox News interview Monday night. "We have gang members. We have killers. We have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country. We are going to get them out. And the police know who they are."

But Trump then added that "everybody else" will go through an existing process in use by the Obama administration, although the GOP nominee said he would enforce the law "perhaps with a lot more energy."
Trump appeared to have praised Obama for his immigration policies after having repeatedly hit the sitting president on the issue for the last year.

"What people don't know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country," said Trump. "Bush, the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I'm going to do the same thing and I just said that."

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