For Donald Trump, it was as close to an apology as he could muster.
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Sarasota, Florida Nov. 28, 2015.
“I don’t mock people that have problems, believe me”, Trump said Saturday. Never. Don’t you think, if that were true, websites such as www.breitbart.com would still be showing the footage?
Regardless of what the correct number was, Trump said if it were a rally for any other candidate, there would only be “50, 75 people”.
Trump on Saturday said he meant no harm, and continued to stress he did not intentionally mock the reporter.
Trump then mentioned how Rubio skipped a hearing on homeland security right after the Paris attacks to attend a fundraiser (Rubio campaign spokesman Alex Conant later said that Rubio was missing the briefings after attending a classified Intelligence Committee session on the attacks).”I don’t care”. They have radicalized people to commit violent crimes in recent years, such as the six Sikhs gunned down at a temple in Wisconsin in 2012 to the three people murdered at a Jewish Community Center in Kansas in 2014 by white supremacists. “Now people mock me with my hair, but it’s fine”.
“He apologized”, said Nancy Hoyt, a supporter who had driven 2½ hours from Ocala, in central Florida.
The real estate mogul claimed he’s heard reports of the celebrations in different New Jersey cities. Anyone who decides to challenge Trump in any way gets bullied. But if these Republicans truly want to keep us safe, why don’t they ever raise the issue of right-wing terrorists?
While those outside listened to audio of his speech, children were given helicopter rides. There was even an elephant with the candidate’s name and his trademark slogan – “Make America Great Again” – chalked on her side.
That gets to the conservative denialism surrounding Trump: The elites of the movement and the Republican Party happily encouraged and nurtured the same forces that have empowered Trump because they offered the promise of short-term political gain. “Never”, he told the crowd.
“Be nice. Don’t hurt the person”, he said after the first protester was taken away. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, meanwhile, are tied for third place with eight percent each.
Donald Trump will make his second visit to the Peach State on Monday, in his ongoing bid for the Republican presidential nomination. “You’d think he’d have an advantage because of his family – but no”.
Serge Kovaleski of The New York Times says he has met Trump repeatedly, interviewing him in his office and talking to him at news conferences, when he worked for the New York Daily News in the late 1980s. Mr. Trump seemed to give tacit approval to using the threat of a shutdown as leverage in striking a budget deal. “I’ve had hundreds of people call in and tweet in on Twitter saying that they saw it and I was 100% right”, Trump said.
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Almost 47 percent of Republican-leaning voters support the deportation of people in the US illegally and oppose the acceptance of refugees from Syria, a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll found. In the past five days, he dropped 12 points from 43 percent to 31 percent, although he continues to hold a wide lead over his competitors.
