The president who is enjoying heightened popularity in his eighth and final year in office plans to campaign robustly for Clinton through Election Day.
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Pence later reiterated his support, telling WTKR in a transcript provided by his campaign that “of course I support John McCain and Kelly Ayotte and all of our Republican incumbents”.
Apparently, part of the role also involved withholding endorsements from Republicans who have offended Trump, like former GOP presidential nominee and current Arizona Sen.
“Her continued support of Donald Trump tells Granite Staters all they need to know about Ayotte’s lack of political courage”, Hassan said in a statement Tuesday after Trump criticized her. With vulnerable candidates like Portman opting out of full-throated endorsements of the Donald, Trump says his campaign “has never been more united”.
The Republican flagbearer steered his campaign into the rough in recent days by provoking a clash with the family of a Muslim American soldier killed in action, and then declining to endorse Ryan and Senator John McCain, the party’s 2008 nominee, in their congressional re-election campaigns.
The Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week that the U.S. should debate deporting all Muslims from the country.
The president said his opposition to Trump is about more than policy differences. When this all started happening and I noticed nobody on the Republican side was even laying a hand on Hillary Clinton, I kind of tried to see what was going on, what Trump had done that may have precipitated this. “That doesn’t make any sense and I don’t think anybody would take that seriously”.
Obama argued those denunciations “ring hollow” as long as Republicans continue to back Trump in the White House race.
As recent national polls are showing him falling further behind Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump, who’s repeated various conspiracy theories throughout the campaign, on Monday launched an attack on the legitimacy of a USA electoral system.
Manafort said that Trump’s dropping poll numbers “were expected” and that he expected the numbers to even out soon.
Trump responded by implying Ghazala Khan’s religion preventing her from speaking at the convention, though she later said talking publicly about her late son was still too hard. A Franklin and Marshall poll in Pennsylvania, one of three key battle ground states, shows Team Clinton enjoys an 11-point lead [49 percent to 38 percent].
“He is a new candidate”, Giuliani said of Trump. “We announced them to all of you”.
Between now and November, Clinton and Trump both have their work cut out for them.
I mean, you can see him trying not to just burn everything to the goddamn ground.
As Republican infighting dominated the 2016 presidential race for another day, Trump and his Republican allies lashed out at the Democratic presidential nominee’s foreign policy record. But after a close Clinton ally floated that possibility last week, her campaign chairman quashed it, insisting Clinton would remain opposed – “period, full stop”.
Since his selection as Trump’s running mate, Pence has tried to stay focused on winning over conservatives skeptical of the NY billionaire, but his new boss keeps getting in the way.
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Jennifer Pierotti Lim, who heads a group called Republican Women for Hillary, said they have heard from almost 100 women since the party conventions concluded.
