A quarter of Trump supporters reported they have some or a lot of close friends who support Clinton, compared with 31 percent who said they have zero close friends who support her. “And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign”.
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Whitman’s announcement follows similar proclamations from several prominent Republicans, including Sally Bradshaw, a Florida GOP strategist who advised former Gov. Jeb Bush during his presidential primary campaign, Maria Comella, a former top advisor to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Rep. Richard Hanna of NY.
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”.
The officials, including one with direct knowledge of Priebus’ thinking, were granted anonymity to discuss internal strategy because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive issue during one of the most tumultuous weeks of Trump’s presidential campaign.
Senior party activist Jan Halper-Hayes told the BBC she thought Mr Trump was “psychologically unbalanced”. Khizr Khan’s speech was devastating, with a grieving immigrant father whose son died for the United States calling Trump out for proposing a ban on Muslims entering the country.
Trump has made the loss of manufacturing jobs a key part of his campaign, bemoaning outsourcing by companies like Carrier and Nabisco and threatening to impose tariffs on goods American companies produce overseas.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he’ll do whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump – including escorting people to the polls himself. “I am just so determined that we are not going to let him do to America what he has done to small business”, she told several thousand people gathered at in a high school gymnasium on Wednesday afternoon.
The Hewlett-Packard executive said in a statement Tuesday that Republican nominee Donald Trump’s “demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character”.
In other words, this feels like the beginning of the end for Trump and his revolution against the political elite.
Obama was a state senator in IL in 2004.
Whitman told the Times that Trump is a “dishonest demagogue” and that electing him to the White House would lead the United States “on a very risky journey”.
Trump on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that the GOP frustration was hurting his campaign. Democrats see potential gains in those states based exclusively on Trump’s divisiveness. “He strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan in next Tuesday’s primary and I’m pleased to do it”.
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New York Representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican member of Congress to publicly say he would vote for Mrs Clinton.
