Pacing his words in deliberate fashion Tuesday night, the presumptive Republican nominee told Republicans that he would “make you proud of your party” while also appealing to “Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates”. I know you want to build a wall and all (so do I), but the guy was born in Indiana. And I’m not a politician. He did both on Tuesday, walking in to Queen’s “We Are the Champions”, and then seemingly sticking largely to a script that swung at Hillary Clinton and emphasized putting “America first”, explaining what that means in terms of foreign, trade, economic, and immigration policy.
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His remarks come at the same time as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clinched the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee – and as he tries to turn the page from a rocky week.
“Our infrastructure is a disaster, schools are failing, crime is rising, people are scared”, he added.
“I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle” of the Republican Party, Trump says, reading from a teleprompter to supporters gathered at one of his golf courses. “This election is about who we are as a nation”.
The on-air jousting began on Monday when O’Reilly opened “The O’Reilly Factor” opining that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel should recuse himself from the class-action lawsuit against Trump University. Curiel, who is from IN, is the son of Mexican immigrants. Trump said in a statement Tuesday his comments were “misconstrued” amid condemnations from GOP leaders.
After days of blistering press coverage and hours after Republicans declared his comments about a federal judge “racist”, a cowed Donald Trump tried to prove he could be a trusted candidate who could potentially win.
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While O’Reilly said that he has investigated the judge and found him to be fair to Donald Trump, he still believes the judge should step aside to avoid the appearance of unfairness. “Normally, legal issues in a civil case would be heard in a neutral environment”.
