Watchers will see a "presidential Donald Trump" during his visit with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Wednesday, and the GOP nominee's campaign is happy the Mexican leader invited him, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said.
"Maybe it's been revealed publicly last-minute, but Mr. Trump was excited to accept the invitation from the president in Mexico," Conway told NBC "Today" show hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie Wednesday morning. "
"He wants to establish a conversation with a neighboring country, a leader, and also to discuss the common problems and challenges that our country is facing."
Guthrie, though, noted that Conway was using "diplomatic language" unlike Trump.
"Is he a guy that will go to the Mexican president and use that same blunt language?" Guthrie said. "Eleven million immigrants are going back. You're going to get a bill for the border wall. Or will he try a gentler approach?"
Conway replied that Trump will be "presidential," and said she is "sorry" Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is not going for a similar visit.
"She keeps following the leader here. We are the leader. People are needed in Louisiana, we are there. The president in Mexico invites us, we accept the invitation to have a productive conversation about immigration, trade policy, and drugs."
Trump will deliver a policy address on immigration during a speech later Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona.
After the speech, Conway said, "yes, you will" know Trump's policy on immigration when it comes to dealing with the millions of immigrants living in the United States illegally.
"You are going to hear many things from Mr. Trump," Conway said. "One, no amnesty. Absolutely going to build the wall. That's been the center of his campaign from day one. He'll repeal the executive orders President [Barack] Obama put in place. You want to work with Congress."
Trump's positions on deportation, sanctuary cities and more "couldn't be more clear," Conway said.
When it comes to changing positions, "I have memorized 22 of them for Hillary Clinton. Keystone pipeline, you could ask her if she would talk to the press. We are happy with the strategy to be open with the press, to go over the border to Mexico to meet with the president, go back to Arizona to give an immigration speech. She was in the Hamptons raising money. "
And there will not be a reversal of Trump's policies, said Conway.
"If you look at his speech at the convention, which is when you accept the Republican nomination, you lay out the vision as president, he didn't talk about deportation," she said.
"He makes it clear he hasn't changed his position in terms of enforcing law. Do you know what might happen if we enforced the immigration laws in this country? I don't. We never bothered."
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