Donald Trump escalated his attacks Friday on Hillary Clinton’s character, just as top former government officials are questioning his own.
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In the weeks before the 1996 presidential election, as it became clearer and clearer that GOP nominee Bob Dole would not defeat incumbent president Bill Clinton, Republican operatives began urging their struggling congressional candidates to begin making the argument: “Let’s not give Clinton a blank check”.
Facing sinking poll numbers and campaign morale, Trump has questioned the integrity of the nation’s election system in recent days.
“I think it will be a challenge for Mike, but I also think he’ll meet the challenge”, Smith said of his friend Pence’s relationship with Trump.
Trump also said he had not seen a video carrying cash to Iran, as he had repeatedly said earlier this week, but rather had seen a clip showing a plane carrying some of five Americans who were freed from Iran in January. Most recently, that means Trump’s sustained criticism of an American Muslim family whose son, US Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq.
“I don’t like doing this”, Ryan told a Wisconsin radio station. It’s hard to keep Republicans motivated to vote for House and Senate when they’ve written off their party’s presidential ticket or when they think they might cast a protest vote for the Libertarians.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, who has endorsed Trump but has not received a reciprocal endorsement from the NY businessman in his re-election bid, told WTAQ radio host Jerry Bader in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that Trump has “had a pretty unusual run since the convention”.
Hedge fund managers John Paulson and Steve Feinberg, Moore, the Trump economic adviser, and David Malpass, who has served in previous Republican administrations, were also named. Kelly Ayotte as well as Ryan.
Like Ryan, state Assembly Speaker Vos said he’s not pulling his endorsement of Trump because he believes Clinton would be worse. Or, as he later told his obsequious pal Sean Hannity: “At the right time, I will be so presidential that you’ll call me and you’ll say, “Donald, you have to stop that, it’s too much'”. The snub was particularly notable since Ryan delayed his own endorsement of Trump.
At the same time, Trump’s lukewarm support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance drew criticism from 37 national security experts from both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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Meanwhile, Clinton has widened her lead over Trump in several states, including battlegrounds like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Colorado, according to polls in those states. A recent poll conducted the last week of July by CBS News found that support for Trump among Republican voters rose to 81 percent from 79 percent.
Mr Trump is even less popular with voters and his favourability rating has remained virtually unchanged since last month.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, Maine’s most prominent Republican, is among those who have called out Trump regularly on specific remarks but have stopped short of saying they can’t support him.
“We have known each other well for many years and he’s already stated publicly that he has great respect for me”, McCain said. The Harvard Republican Club announced Thursday that it will not endorse the GOP nominee for the first time in 128 years.
“Hillary Clinton wants to have them come in by the hundreds of thousands”, Trump warned Thursday, to a chorus of boos. Clinton “can never be trusted with national security”.
They also contended that Clinton was responsible for negotiations that led to a $400 million United States payment to Iran earlier in the year. It was delivered on the same day that Iran released four Americans they had detained. “If Trump wins, it’s not really a Republican victory, so to say”. They frankly don’t want Trump to even make it close, because the objective is not simply to reject Trump but to encourage a complete repudiation of Trumpism.
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It’s unclear what footage Trump was referring to.
