“Welcome to Wisconsin, Mr. Trump, but let’s get something straight”, Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker Robin Vos wrote in an open letter to his GOP colleagues ahead of Trump’s arrival. He has skipped from one misstep to the next, sparking a fresh wave of Republican defections among longtime party loyalists who refuse to support their presidential nominee – including some who even publicly support for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Trump’s announcement, made during a campaign stop in Green Bay, came just a few days after he gave a shoutout to Ryan’s primary challenger and proclaimed he “was just not there” when it came to endorsing Ryan.
With the majority the Republicans have in the House of Representatives, it’s unlikely – but not impossible – that Speaker Paul Ryan needs to be concerned about losing Republican control of that body this election cycle.
“I fully support and endorse Paul Ryan”, Trump said Friday, prompting both cheers and boos from about 2,000 supporters here.
In addition to Morell, a group of former senior United States government officials and military officers, including several who served in top posts under Republican presidents, denounced Trump in a recent letter and called Trump’s recent comments wavering on the strength of the US’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military alliance “reckless, dangerous, and extremely unwise”.
Ryan said that he would continue to back Trump despite the swirling controversy over the family of soldier Humayun Khan.
None of the top-ranking Wisconsin Republicans are going to the Trump event. “But we are not afraid”, she said. “I like people that weren’t captured”.
“Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son the best of America”.
“I may have short circuited and for that I will try to clarify”, Clinton said, though still insisting she “never sent or received anything that was marked classified”.
Even as he polls badly nationally, Trump is performing remarkably well among whites without a college degree, especially men.
Trump regularly hurls thinly veiled sexist insults at rival Hillary Clinton, including one involving her getting “schlonged”, and has a long record of making degrading and disparaging comments about women.
“I joined this campaign in a heartbeat”, Pence said of becoming Trump’s running mate.
Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight formula – based on a mix of polls, economic data and historical trends – granted Clinton a 75 percent chance of victory on Friday, along with an 81 percent chance of keeping Virginia, another key battleground, in the Democratic column.
So if Donald Trump is the president, I’ll stand up to him.
Looking at the recent Trump polls, it’s clear this is been a very rough week for “The Donald”.
Josh Scholer 1) As a 20-year-old senior at Boise State, I am supporting Clinton in this election. His ignorance about foreign affairs, his willingness to use nuclear weapons, his inability to create actual plans other than “trust me, it will be huge”, his racism and misogyny – all disqualify him as a President. And here’s another thing that Clinton isn’t receiving credit for: She used the DNC to consolidate support among Democratic voters for her candidacy.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life”, said Campbell, who met Clinton when she toured a Las Vegas electric company Thursday.
These highly offensive statements by Trump and his refusal to apologize forced virtually everyone else in the Republican Party – including Sen.
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Incidentally, this pattern was part of the theory of how Trump could win a close election: He’d underperform a typical Republican in the South and the Plains states, but not by enough to lose electoral votes, and he’d overperform in the Rust Belt by enough to pick up states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Her main reason for bailing: Donald Trump.
