Last week, Haley said she wished Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June’s Charleston massacre. And on Tuesday, at an event in Washington to promote his memoir, McConnell openly anxious that Trump was turning Hispanic voters away from the party, most recently because of his comments about a federal judge of Mexican heritage.
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But Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee, and her cerebral, sophisticated, experienced knowledge of the world will now be contrasted with the bombastic Republican nominee-to-be, Donald Trump, whose campaign up to now has been marked by xenophobia, racism, sexism and one lie after another.
“I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle, and I will never, ever let you down”, he promised.
“I am New Jersey”, Trump said in a recent interview on Fox News in response to a question about whether he can win here.
When Donald Trump tweeted a picture of him eating a taco bowl with the caption: “I love Hispanics”, it sent one politician over the edge.
McConnell’s comments yesterday weren’t the only example, either.
Also, Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC has been piping up of late, imploring fellow Republicans to unendorse the race-baiting presumptive nominee.
Goldwater, meanwhile, opposed the bill and lost to Johnson in a landslide that year. “I haven’t seen him like this in a while”.
I was a big Goldwater enthusiast. “Don’t use Hillary Clinton as an excuse, as your blank check to say racist things about people born in IN”.
Judge Curiel, who was born in IN, became a subject of the billionaire’s racist attacks on the basis of his Mexican heritage.
“Donald, guess what, I’m not going to support you until you get your act together”, Scarborough ranted. “It’s an inherent conflict of interest”. Steve Deace, a Republican radio host, tweeted Wednesday night that state delegates were reaching out to him personally to see how they could stop Trump.
Trump stayed on script. There wasn’t a single mention of Trump University that has drawn so much criticism. “That attitude may be childish and pathetic in a schoolyard bully, but in an American president, in a commander in chief, it’s downright unsafe”.
Mitt Romney won about 59 percent of the white vote over Obama in 2012.
These discussions haven’t involved the highest levels of the party: House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus.
As Mike Barnicle pointed out to Scarborough, it really doesn’t matter what Trump says now. Bush supported a comprehensive immigration overhaul with a path to citizenship, though it never made it to his desk. Mitt Romney got 27 percent of the vote. Over and over, Republican officials disavowed Trump’s comments – saying they were shocked by Trump’s willingness to attack Curiel because of his ethnicity, and warning that Trump had to change his ways fast.
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The New York Daily News went so far as to prep a front page with a photo of Ryan appearing to point at one of Trump, and the headline “I’m With Racist!”. His disavowal in the wake of Trump’s comments about the judge – the first of any leading Republican – followed the debut of a hard-hitting, multimillion-dollar television ad from Clinton allies.
