Democrat Bryan Caforio, an attorney who was recruited by national party leaders, advanced to challenge Knight, a freshman Republican.
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Trump last week repeatedly accused Curiel, who was born in IN, of being inherently biased against him due to his Mexican heritage.
The New York real estate mogul lamented the state of affairs in the country, from the “dilapidated airports, highways, bridges” and widespread loss of American manufacturing jobs to the chaos roiling the Middle East and the dangers of illegal immigration. “This election is about who we are as a nation”.
She said she has been pushing back, arguing that while she – and many others – “would personally not bring up a person’s origin, that’s just Trump’s style”.
“I believe that we have more common ground on the policy issues of the day, and we have more likelihood of getting our policies enacted with him than we do with her”, Ryan said.
Clinton won nearly every county in New Jersey.
Democratic Party elites are lined up squarely behind Clinton, including most likely Obama, who may endorse her as early as this week.
Clinton and Sanders were both pressing for victory in California, each eager to effectively end their primary battle on a high note. “But they have to get over it. They shouldn’t be so angry for so long”. Tim Scott of SC, the only black Republican senator, said of Trump’s remarks.
Sanders hoped a victory would help in his so-far-unsuccessful bid to get Clinton superdelegates to switch their support. But after clinching the nomination, he revived the assault in late May at a rally in San Diego, going on an extended, 11-minute monologue about the case and mentioning that the judge “happens to be, we believe, Mexican”. “We’re on the phone right now”.
“This is about whether or not we’re going to put into the Oval Office someone who is vulgar and who makes frequent racist comments, who makes it up as he goes along, and who is risky and reckless with what he says, who has been a buffoon in many instances and would be a buffoon on the world stage”, she said on “CBS This Morning”.
Trump said money given to the Clinton Foundation charity from foreign donors has earned the Clintons millions of dollars and had a corrupting influence when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and used a private email server to conduct official business.
A chorus of Republicans – several of whom are up for re-election this year – and some of Trump’s former opponents have called him out for questioning the impartiality of U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University.
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Scarborough said many in the GOP who have flocked to Trump’s banner by default ‘are – I can’t say the word that they are.
