That fact-free speculation – revived on Tuesday night by Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski – is closely connected to the myth that the president is a secret Muslim, a belief that is still held by nearly a third of all Americans and 54 percent of Republican primary voters. Trump, who had never previously run for public office, beat 16 rivals to become the Republican presidential nominee for the November 8 election.
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Whitman declined through a spokesperson to be interviewed for this story, and top advisers for Christie did not immediately respond for comment.
The Arizona senator and 2008 GOP presidential nominee also said he isn’t going to expand on the lengthy statement he issued in response to Trump’s criticism of the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004.
His father, Khizr Khan, denounced Trump during the Democratic National Convention for his proposal to ban Muslims from the U.S. and questioned whether Trump had read the U.S. Constitution. That was less than the $90 million Clinton raised along with the national Democratic Party the same month, but it was a substantial bump from past months. “He is unrepentant in all things”.
After Donald Trump’s feud with Muslim parents who lost a son in battle for the United States, he has vowed not a single Republican will get his vote.
Naqvi said he was pressing his registered Republican friends to do the same. While not a household name, her decision to leave the party rocked those who make politics their profession.
Bradshaw was one of the five senior Republican strategists tasked with identifying the party’s shortcomings and recommending ways it could win the White House after its losing 2012 presidential campaign. When Trump locked up the Republican nomination in May, we were told a “pivot” to more “presidential” behavior was imminent.
“You’re probably not gonna see people in the Senate take this step because the risk to their own reelection is too significant”, Mackowiak said. That number was 53% among Democrats, 31% among independents, and 14% among Republicans. Trump has said he himself was “viciously attacked” by the Khans, who appeared at last week’s Democratic convention and challenged the Republican’s fitness to be commander in chief.
Trump then spent days after the address lobbing various criticisms at the family while noting that their son was a hero.
“But no one was blaming Donald Trump for Capt. Khan’s death”.
And House Republican Adam Kinzinger of IL, a US Air Force veteran, told CNN he woke up Wednesday realizing that Trump has “crossed so many red lines” that he can no longer support the nominee, “no matter what the political cost to me”.
According to CNN, Donald Trump aides and people close to his campaign are increasingly frustrated by his insistence on waging various fights that steer him off message.
In the Post interview, Trump also declined to support McCain’s re-election and dismissed New Hampshire Sen. Both had been among Trump’s harshest critics in the wake of his comments about the Khan family, particular McCain, a former prisoner of war who said Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”. But Comella, his former aide, said the very survival of the party depends on stopping the celebrity businessman.
Manafort has denied that such a meeting is necessary, telling Fox News that “the only need we have for an intervention is with some media types who keep saying things that aren’t true”.
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Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa.
