Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has scheduled an Atlanta visit Wednesday for a fundraiser.
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In a Monday conference call with high-level supporters, Trump overrode a directive from his own staff telling these surrogates, including former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, not to talk about the Curiel matter. Trump, who has several fundraisers scheduled for the coming weeks, also said he planned to compete in Democrat-friendly states like New Jersey, California, Maryland and Pennsylvania this fall.
Trump said he is trying to move past the controversies.
When pressed on the possibility of supporting a Republican alternative to Trump, Labrador said that if his party’s establishment had a concrete plan to back a known conservative such as Sens.
During this past weekend’s Georgia Republican convention, Perdue enthusiastically endorsed Trump.
But Carson, Trump’s former primary rival, said his comments weren’t racist and the businessman was just “talking out loud rather than thinking”.
As a result, support for Trump – including that of House Speaker Paul Ryan – is beginning to show signs of strain. The “teleprompter Trump” stays on message and is more low key. Trump had said the judge – who has a Hispanic surname – was biased against him because he is a Mexican. Trump has similarly used Twitter to bash Warren, calling her “goofy Elizabeth Warren” and attempting to mock her Native American heritage by calling her “Pocahontas”.
“I don’t think in my adult life, in my public life, I have ever accused a fellow American of being racist”.
Some traditional Republican donors have been slow to open their wallets to Trump and there has been concern that the candidate’s recent criticisms of a federal judge would be an obstacle to giving.
The delegate added, “If he is our nominee, I believe the party will lose races all the way down the ticket”.
“He wants to take us back to an America that history has chronicled that’s not so pleasing, that’s not so accepting”, Assemblyman Mike Gipson said. Trump told The New York Times in April that he was not sure it would be “a bad thing” for the United States if Japan had nuclear weapons, and has said the same about South Korea and Saudi Arabia.
He then directed his surrogates to go after reporters who wrote about the Trump University lawsuits and Trump’s Curiel comments.
Trump has come under fire for many comments since he launched his presidential campaign almost a year ago.
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“This isn’t the first, and may not be the last thing he has said that I have disagreed with and wish he would not say it”, Mead said of Trump.
