Several prominent Republicans have refused to endorse Trump, and some have voiced support for Hillary Clinton. Hanna has held his seat in NY, where Clinton served as senator, since 2013 and plans to retire when his current term is over.
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Clinton has solidly been trailed by Trump in the poll throughout most of the 2016 presidential race.
Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by 9 percentage points in a new national CNN/ORC poll released Monday – making gains among independents and Bernie Sanders supporters. Last September, Hanna was among only three GOP lawmakers who broke party ranks to oppose a measure to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
At a campaign event Tuesday in Virginia, Trump promised to continue writing checks to his own campaign.
Pushing back on reports that there is chaos in the Republican, Trump said the party was united.
“Donald Trump should be winning in Arizona, however the numbers indicate he likely has stifled his momentum since the GOP convention with the comments regarding the Gold Star family”, said Noble.
“I was stunned by the callousness of his comments”, Hanna said, according to the New York Times. Sixty-five percent of those polled said Clinton was qualified to be president, but only 43% expressed the belief that Trump is qualified to be president. The campaign said it raised $8.7 million during that period.
Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence has tried to focus on winning over conservatives who are skeptical of the NY billionaire, but his new boss keeps getting in the way.
The billionaire businesswoman cited a list of controversial positions that Trump has campaigned on, including banning Muslims from entering the country and building a wall between Mexico and the U.S.
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In an op-ed published in the Post Standard alongside his interview, the liberal Republican wrote, “If I compare the life stories of both candidates, I find Trump deeply flawed in endless ways”.
