It is right there. He clearly intends to raise the federal minimum wage or mislead people into thinking he will. Was going for the more charitable explanation.
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You're confused. Nowhere in his statements has he said he wants to raise the minimum wage.
“I am open to doing something with it, because I don’t like that,” Trump told CNN on Wednesday after being asked if he thought the $7.25 minimum wage should be increased.
Trump added that “you have to have something that you can live on” and that his willingness to entertain a wage increase showed he was “very different from most Republicans.”