Republican Donald Trump on Monday grabbed a giant wedge and tried to drive it deep between Democrat Hillary Clinton and one of her party’s most loyal constituencies — gay Americans.

Originally billed as a takedown of Clinton and “all of the bad things” she would do as president, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee reoriented his speech to focus on the weekend’s terrorist shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. He tied the attack to Clinton’s reluctance to acknowledge the danger of unrestricted illegal immigration and boosted refugee migrations to the U.S.

“Immigration is a privilege, and we should not be letting people into our country who don’t support our communities — all of our communities”

“Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country,” he said at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. “She can’t have it both ways.”

Exit polls in 2012 indicated that 5 percent of voters were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and that President Obama won 76 percent them.

Trump’s speech is yet another indication that he believes he can make a play for voters that Democrats long have taken for granted. He said the LGBT community needs to determine if it is better off with “Donald Trump with his actions” or “Hillary Clinton with her words.”

Trump provided new details on his plan to restrict the free-flow of Muslims from war torn areas of the world into the country. After last year’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, the real estate tycoon floated a proposal to temporary bar Muslims from entering the country. On Monday, he said he was use his authority has president to suspend entry from high-risk areas during a “long-overdue” security review.

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He suggested that Omar Mateen, who shot more than 100 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, should never been in the country. He was born in New York to parents who arrived form Afghanistan.

“The only reason why the killer was in America in the first place is because we allowed his family to come here,” Trump said. “That is a fact, and it’s a fact we need to talk about.”

Trump said America has a “dysfunctional immigration system” and an “incompetent administration.” He vowed to change that.

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“We’re going from a totally incompetent to just the opposite, believe me,” he said.

Trump noted that the president has enormous discretion to halt entry by classes of people.

“I will use this power to protect the Americana people … Immigration is a privilege, and we should not be letting people into our country who don’t support our communities — all of our communities, every single one of them,” he said.

Rather than confront Islamic extremism, Trump said both President Obama and Clinton want to scapegoat guns and use the tragedy to boost support for further restrictions on law-abiding gun owners.

“They tried that in France, which has among the toughest gun laws anywhere in the world, and 130 people were brutally murdered in cold blood,” he said, adding that Americans must have the means to defend themselves.

Trump twice blasted the Obama administration for adhering to political correctness, which he said “cripples our ability to talk and to think and act clearly.”

He called on the administration to comply with a request made last year by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest to release the full immigration history of some 100 people arrested on terrorism-related charges in the United States.

Trump accused Obama of failing to let intelligence-gathering agencies do their jobs.

“Our president doesn’t know what he’s doing,” he said. “He has failed us, and failed us badly … We tried it President Obama’s way. It doesn’t work.”

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Trump said he soon would deliver the speech he intended to give Monday — a full critique of why Clinton would be bad for the country. But even though he shifted the focus of Monday’s address, he tweaked the former secretary of state a number of times.

“She supports much of what is wrong with this country,” he said.

Trump also needled Clinton for refusing to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” in speaking about the Orlando shooting.

“Guess what, she will probably say them,” he said. “She sort of has said them. But let’s see what happens. She really has no choice.”

Trump also criticized Clinton for supporting Obama’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the United States, which he said would cost billions of dollars.

“Wouldn’t this be money better spent rebuilding America?” he asked.