“I did think there was a lot at the Trump convention that made you feel things were not the way I see them, I do not see them as negatively as was portrayed, yet I do know we do have problems in this country”, Wright said.
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Betfair, a British prediction market, has the Republican Party as holding a 25.8 percent chance to win the president and gives Trump a 24.1 percent chance of becoming president, the New York Times reports. He said in a campaign video in January, “I’m totally self-funding my campaign”. “We’re going to focus more on Hillary Clinton”. But the state of Trump’s campaign and his decision to stick with his inflammatory primary message has prompted her to intensify her focus across party lines.
Gates led the Pentagon during portions of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, later served as president of the Boy Scouts of America, and now is the chancellor of the College of William and Mary. Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley noted disagreement about “how the members of the military and their families should be treated” before ducking behind partisanship. John McCain seemingly has every reason to oppose Donald Trump.
The billionaire has given $5,400 to Clinton’s campaign this election cycle, but the former first lady appears not to have been his first candidate of choice.
Recent polling puts Clinton four-and-a-half percentage points ahead of him.
Obama said, “I don’t even really know where to start on answering this question. I’m just going to leave it at that”.
“You’ll see very few Republicans publicly endorse Clinton” in SC, said Gregory said. A more formal effort will launch soon, focusing on wooing uneasy GOP voters at the national and state level.
Trump had sneered at the Khans, including falsely suggesting that as a Muslim, Mr. Khan had forced his wife to stand silent at the Democratic Convention while he powerfully criticized Trump’s stance on Muslims and immigration.
On the betting market PredictIt, a fraction of users believe that, by “August 31, 2016, Donald Trump shall publicly announce his withdrawal as the Republican nominee for President of the United States, for any reason other than the death of the candidate”.
But most of the GOP’s leaders thought they could domesticate Trump and use him for their ideological purposes.
Grassroots organisation Groups formed to support Mrs Clinton include Republicans for Her 2016, run by Republican lobbyist Craig Snyder; a grassroots organisation called R4C16, led by John Stubbs and Ricardo Reyes, officials in former president George W Bush’s administration; and the Republican Women for Hillary group co-led by Jennifer Pierotti Lim, an official at the USA chamber of commerce. He just couldn’t endorse a candidate who “denigrates people based on their ethnicity, religion or disabilities”.
Rather, the target is moderates, particularly women, in the crucial swing counties surrounding cities such as Richmond, Virginia, Columbus, Ohio, and Philadelphia.
Oregon Republican Chairman Bill Currier will ask his state party’s central committee to formally petition Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to discipline party staff, consultants or vendors who speak or work against their candidate.
“I’m going to run against Paul Ryan until I crush him, and it will be on Tuesday”, he said. Trump said. “That would be awful”. They might also influence moderate Republicans to switch sides.
Henderson, who supported Carly Fiorina in the S.C. GOP Primary, said she can’t vote for Hillary Clinton.
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Meanwhile, Clinton is up by a sizeable margin in the polls in Colorado.
