Trump’s comments appeared to represent the most dramatic break yet with a Republican establishment whose support for their presidential nominee has been reluctant at best. President Obama took on the man who is running to succeed him in his strongest terms yet.
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“The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president and he keeps on proving it”, Obama said on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize victor of 2009, promised to end the war in Iraq. “We have unbelievable support beyond what people see”, he said.
As the controversy over Donald Trump’s critical comments about the family of fallen US solider Captain Humayun Khan crescendoed over the weekend, there was one voice inside the campaign that tried to tamp it down: Mike Pence.
The 2016 election campaign continues to get more and more combative, but the most notable battles are within the Republican party.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he’s making.
In a newspaper opinion columnist, he wrote: “Mr. Trump has attacked the parents of a slain US soldier”. Where do we draw the line?
“To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division”, she wrote on Facebook.
According to the New York Times, Wisconsin’s leading Republicans Gov. Scott Walker and Senator Ron Johnson are so angry about Trump’s behavior that neither are going to campaign with him in Green Bay this week, despite originally being scheduled to attend. But it was in the air just the same.
“I really would like him to explain why he paid Chinese workers to make Trump ties”, Clinton said, holding up one of his signature neck ties, “instead of deciding to make those ties right here in Colorado with a company like Knotty”.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The Purple Heart, given to those wounded or killed in action, came from a retired lieutenant colonel. “So I don’t understand why it’s so hard to understand why Donald Trump.is being held responsible for something he had nothing to with while Hillary Clinton had everything to do with”.
The soldier’s mother said she was shocked by Trump’s rhetoric and wishes she could talk to her late son about it.
Trump, who has trailed Clinton by an average of 4 percentage points in recent national polls, declined to name which nontraditional states he thinks he can put in play, telling Floridians: “It’s sort of like how I feel about ISIS”. First of all, he was speaking from his heart.
Both Trump and Hillary Clinton say they oppose it.
Campaign manager Paul Manafort told Fox News the campaign was moving in a positive direction, with Trump himself in control.
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Interviewed by The Washington Post, Trump said he could endorse neither House Speaker Paul Ryan nor Senator John McCain, both of whom face Republican challengers in primary votes in their states ahead of the November 8 general election. Republican strategists say Trump’s devotion to his message and penchant for controversy have affected his campaign’s ability to effectively attack Clinton.
