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Clinton accuses Trump of ‘inciting violence’ with gun comments

The poll has a confidence interval of six percentage points.

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Despite claiming his words had been twisted by the media, many others have interpreted the comments as a veiled threat to Clinton. -Mexican border and temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country. “The GOP nominee was clearly suggesting that some of the “Second Amendment people” among his supporters could kill his Democratic opponent were she to be elected”.

“Donald Trump’s remarks continue to reveal that he is unfit to lead this Nation”, Bonoff said in a statement.

“His policies don’t seem to be well formed, they don’t seem to make any sense”, Smith said. “The support he has from Republicans nearly seems obligatory rather than voluntary”. In the speech, Trump alleged that Clinton intends to “abolish” the Second Amendment to the United States constitution, which guarantees the right to bear arms. In a letter to Republican National Committee officials, Humphrey pushed the party to replace Trump on the ticket. “You have the power to speak against her”.

Michael Hayden, a former Central Intelligence Agency chief, said if anyone else had said the same thing as the Republican nominee it may have been a different story. “It feels like he’s not even trying to be a decent person who we should look up to”.

Amid talk of campaign resets, Donald Trump changed scenes today, trading his usual large rally for, first, a small roundtable of coal executives and workers in Southwestern Virginia, and, later, a speech on jobs, especially mining jobs.

Retired General Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, denounced the remark on CNN, saying it was unsafe no matter the intent. Lauderdale, Florida, the real estate tycoon said the jihadist group is “honoring President Obama”. Borgino argues that it’s obvious what Trump meant, that he meant that “Second Amendment people” should organize and vote to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president and not that they should assassinate her. “I dislike Hillary so much”, she said. “Had we had a chance to talk to him, I would have taken him to the shed”.

Indeed, neither Trump nor Clinton enjoys great popularity.

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The Iowa trip marked Mrs Clinton’s first visit to the battleground state since her narrow win over Bernie Sanders in the lead-off caucuses. And Trump went on Fox to explain his comments himself in an interview with host Sean Hannity.

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at Crown Arena in Fayetteville N.C. on Aug. 9. REUTERS  Eric Thayer