Katrina Pierson, Trump’s national spokeswoman, started by referring Jake Tapper to the Trump campaign’s clarification of his remarks.
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The former reality show celebrity has repeatedly accused Clinton of seeking to take away Americans’ guns.
Hillary Clinton has retained her post-convention lead, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday.
In the conversations, Trump or campaign aides denied any threat of violence against Clinton, CNN quoted a Secret Service official as saying.
The ad came the same day Trump made a comment some took as a call to violence by Republican Donald Trump against Clinton.
“This is a strong powerful movement, the Second Amendment”, Trump said. She then tried to say that what Trump “said” isn’t really what he said.
“If elected, Hillary Clinton will appoint an anti-gun Supreme Court justice to overturn our fundamental right to self-protection”, Chris Cox, chairman of NRA’s Political Victory Fund, said in a statement to USA TODAY about the new anti-Clinton ad.
On the defensive once again, Donald Trump is blaming faulty interpretations and media bias for an uproar over his comments about the Second Amendment.
As Trump struggled to turn the page on a hard period in his campaign, Clinton’s campaign continued a push to win over Republicans and independents Wednesday, launching a group called “Together for America”. She says all she wants are tougher controls in a country where 13,286 people died from firearms in 2015, a year when 372 mass shootings left 475 people dead and 1,870 wounded.
Trump’s campaign have insisted that he meant that the gun lobby could vote as a bloc to keep out Ms Clinton. “I said pro-2A citizens must organize and get out vote to save our Constitution!”
The turmoil among Republicans was reflected in a Reuters/IPSOS poll on Wednesday that showed almost one-in-five registered Republicans voters wanted Trump to drop out ahead of the November 8 election.
On Tuesday, Trump began at the North Carolina rally by saying, falsely, that his Democratic competitor wanted to “essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
The New York Daily News, which has been fiercely critical of Trump, called on the candidate to drop out of the race.
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“The gun lobby is coming to Donald Trump’s defense and spending millions of dollars to spread lies about Hillary Clinton because they know Trump will always do their bidding”, said Clinton spokesman Andrew Bates.
