Asked on Monday if the general election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a “lesser of two evils election”, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell answered yes.
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“He was an icon known for grace on his feet and power in his fists inside the ring, and a great exuberance for life outside it”, McConnell said.
Trump has said that Curiel was incapable of being impartial in Trump’s case because as a presidential candidate, Trump has proposed to build a wall at the Mexican border to curb illegal immigration. Although Curiel’s parents are from Mexico, he was born in IN and is known for his tough approach to Mexican drug cartels. Our nominee ought to be talking about.
MCCONNELL: I think the Party of Lincoln wants to win the White House. This is a choice that many Americans are not happy with. “We’re all anxious to hear what he may say next”.
McConnell, who has led the charge against Obama in a number of battles throughout the president’s tenure – conceded that the president’s a “very smart guy” but added that he’s exhausted of the “incessant lectures”.
“If you try to run an entire presidential election on comments and issues like that, it is a recipe for disaster in November”, Jennings said.
“He’s been chosen by the Republican primary voters across the country”, McConnell said.
By Sunday morning, not only had Trump doubled down on his characterization of a Mexican-American federal judge as preternaturally unfit to be fair to the European-American nominee by dint of the judge’s ethnic heritage-he told John Dickersonof Face the Nation that he would expect the same level of unfairness from a Muslim judge.
Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of IL has withdrawn his support for Trump, saying his comments were “un-American”.
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At a Washington press conference on Tuesday, McConnell told reporters that he disapproved of Trump’s comments against the judge saying, “It’s time to stop attacking various people that you competed with or various minority groups in the country”. This election is imminently winnable.
