In response to a question on whether Mills continued to support Donald Trump despite the comments, Mills campaign manager Mike Lukach sent a statement from Mills which said he did.
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In an effort to calm rising criticism of his party’s relationship with people of color, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday disavowed Donald Trump’s xenophobic comments about a judge of Mexican heritage. There is nothing surprising in Trump’s actions here, except that we haven’t seen him engage in this bullying even sooner.
More importantly for Hoosiers, he was born in Indiana and is a graduate of Indiana University.
“Hours before Warren formally endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Warren lashed out Trump as, “… a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself”.
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Despite what many perceive as derogatory remarks, Trump is confident he can woo Latino voters to his way of thinking.
Asked about those in the Republican Party who refuse to endorse him, Trump said: “it’s okay if they don’t. but they have to get over it, they shouldn’t be so angry for so long”.
With Trump at the meeting were his chief strategist, Paul Manafort, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Republican fundraisers Ray Washburne and Lew Eisenberg.
In a statement, Kirk attributed his decision to withdraw his support for Trump to the real estate tycoon’s recent comments about Hispanic Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel.
Ryan’s backing of Trump comes a day after he blasted the businessman’s remarks about a federal judge as a “textbook definition of a racist comment”.
“I have spent my life building bridges and tearing down barriers – not building walls”, Senator Kirk said.
Warren will argue Trump’s broadsides against the judge – which received widespread condemnation from many Republicans – are part of a pattern established by Senate Republicans who have stymied judicial appointees from the Obama administration. “I think I’m going to do very well with Hispanics”. They want those judges to tilt the law in favor of big businesses and billionaires like Trump.
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Mnuchin dismissed talk that donors are concerned about Trump’s judge comments. This judge is giving us unfair rulings. “And the expectation that somehow a few of his policies related to natural resource management might somehow make up for his glaring shortfalls in every other aspect of the presidency is unreasonable”.
