She said national security would be in danger under a Trump presidency and she encouraged all Republicans to support Clinton in November.
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Among them include Arizona Senator John McCain, who condemned Trump for repeatedly pillorying Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain killed while serving in Iraq in 2004, after they spoke in support of Clinton at the Democratic National Convention last week. He has contributed more than US$56 million to his presidential run so far, the campaign said. Comments included notes of encouragement from Clinton backers, and expressions of disdain from some who said they could not understand why a Republican would vote for the party’s longtime nemesis. “If we are prohibited from manufacturing in the right locations”, she said in an interview aired on CNBC’s Squawk On The Street, “that means that jobs in the United States will be in jeopardy, because Hewlett Packard won’t thrive”.
Whitman called Republican nominee Donald Trump “a dishonest demagogue”, and, for a CEO who doesn’t often engage in hyperbole, literally warned the existence of the nation is at risk. Johnson was asked what it would take for him to no longer back Trump.
Republican leaders, including Sen. Khizr and Ghazala Khan cited the sacrifice of their son, who was killed by a vehicle bomb, and criticised Trump’s proposal to combat terrorism by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States.
Meg Whitman, the president and chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid in a stunning statement rejecting the candidacy of Donald Trump.
While Whitman said she did not agree with Clinton on “very many issues”, she said the former secretary “would be a much better president than Donald Trump”. The soldier’s father had criticized Trump at last week’s Democratic convention.
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With the general election campaign now squarely underway, Republicans found themselves once again forced to answer questions about the latest boundary-defying pronouncement from Trump at a moment when most would rather be talking about Hillary Clinton’s record.
