Hillary Clinton on Wednesday had her second run in with an animal rights protester in a week when Secret Service had to surround her after a woman broke through a barricade and made a run for the stage in Iowa.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is denying a 10 August 2016 report by CNN that his campaign has been spoken to by the Secret Service over remarks he made about “Second Amendment people” stopping his presidential rival Hillary Clinton from picking a Supreme Court justice.
The New York billionaire once again found himself in the center of controversy after telling a North Carolina political rally on Tuesday that gun rights defenders can “do something” to prevent Clinton from winning the November election, a remark that has been interpreted by broad groups as a call to use violence.
Clinton said during her speech at the Democratic National Convention last month that she does not want to repeal the amendment or take away people’s guns, but advocated “common-sense reforms”. “And if you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences”.
“Yesterday, we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that crossed the line”, she said, citing “his casual inciting of violence”. In an interview with the right-wing broadcaster Fox News, however, Trump insisted that he had called for democratic – not deadly – action.
“I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”, she said.
The US constitution’s second amendment guarantees the right to bear firearms.
“I don’t like her temperament”, he said during a campaign rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
High-profile Republicans and rank-and-file voters appeared shaken on Wednesday after a string of Trump misfires, struggling with how to best reject his divisive candidacy.
Republican Party rules and state laws would make it hard at this juncture to replace Mr Trump on ballots ahead of the November 8th election.
“I take Trump at his word”, House said.
Mrs Clinton’s campaign now has a website for Republicans and political independents to sign up to pledge their support. It lists 50 prominent Republicans and Independents who have endorsed her so far, including former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg.
On Monday, 50 Republican national security officials signed an open letter questioning Trump’s temperament, calling him reckless and unqualified to be president. “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump”.
Some 19pc think he should drop out, while 70pc think he should stay in and 10pc don’t know, according to the poll of 396 registered Republicans.
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“I’m in a quandary as to who I am going to vote for”, Rohrscheib said.
