Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus’ spokeswoman, Lindsay Walters, referred questions back to Trump.
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First in Colorado Springs on Friday, then again Monday in Columbus, Ohio, Donald Trump accused firefighters of being biased against him and not knowing how to do their job properly. And he told Fox commentator Sean Hannity, “I hope the Republicans are watching closely or it’s going to be taken away from us”.
Trump’s comments during the primary bolstered the impression that Trump, a political outsider, was leading the charge against a corrupt political system.
The Republican convention was held in Cleveland from July 18 to 21 and the Democratic convention in Philadelphia from July 25 to 28.
When he was asked about his assertion that the November election will be rigged, Trump said that he had been hearing about it for a long time. “He is unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”.
“I think your audience knows, I think we all know, that in this day and age, a computer can do anything”, he said to Yiannopoulos, according to a transcript posted on Breitbart.
“I can not emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement”, McCain said.
She said that the Party was “at a crossroads and have nominated a total narcissist, a misogynist, a bigot”.
Like Fleischer, he does not plan to follow Bradshaw out of the party, but insisted that Trump must work harder to unify it.
The last time Utah voted for a Democratic president, it wasn’t much of a statement: It was 1964, and 44 of the 50 states tilted for the Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson over the Republican Barry Goldwater in one of the biggest presidential landslides in American history.
But he has not been shy of asserting that the electoral process has been “rigged”.
Trump also touted his campaign fund-raising efforts – almost $39 million from small donors in about a month, he said – and promised to help veterans seeking medical treatment and other services. “He lost, he lost”, Trump said.
This from the man who wants to be the commander in chief of the USA military and leader of the free world.
Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, at the Democratic Convention, in front a picture of him before his death in Iraq.
Mr Trump also claimed that the Republic contest had been slanted against him, saying: “I think my side was rigged”. “The people that are running to Trump’s support I don’t think are fully educated”, Kusmisz said.
“Regardless of political party affiliation, we certainly all agree that attacking a Gold Star Mother is utterly disgraceful conduct”.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment about Trump’s remarks.
Trump was in a complaining mood on Monday, summoning reporters unexpectedly to a hallway before he went on stage.
As with many controversies that embroil Trump, this was another one that didn’t seem to be diminishing his support among his hardcore fans.
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“Instead of speaking out against instances of bigotry, racism and inflammatory rhetoric, whether it’s been against women, immigrants or Muslims, we made a calculus that it was better to say nothing at all in the interest of politics and winning elections”, she told CNN.
