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One-fifth of Republicans won’t vote for Trump

“If Hillary Clinton is elected, there is nothing we can do to stop her from nominating an anti-gun Supreme Court justice who will vote to overturn the individual right of law-abiding citizens to own a gun in their home for protection”.

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And Erica Smegielski, daughter of Dawn Hochsprung, the school head who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, said Mr Trump was “distasteful and disgusting”. “And he has turned the Republican party against itself something that will take many years to correct”, Elmets said. It’s sparked conversations about whether rhetoric matters in politics.

He said: “Give me a break”.

“I think he’s basically saying it’s OK for you to go kill”, he said.

“With the debates looming and plenty of campaigning, there is time for that to change, but there is a risk that many people have made up their minds about Trump’s temperament”, Mahaffee said.

“There is tremendous political power to save the Second Amendment, tremendous”, the NY businessman said.

Trump has in recent months become infamous for his big personality and equally big mouth.

Ambassador Robert Blackwill – who was the former deputy national security advisor and ambassador to India under former president George W. Bush and an official in the former president George H.W. Bush administration – said he had to back Clinton because of who she is running against.

The Clinton campaign and others lodged loud objections that his comments could be interpreted as a call for violent action. “This is a political movement”, he said.

“I do not like Trump, but I thought it was probably a joke”. “These are the kind of people that Trump is appealing to”. “He just doesn’t think before he speaks”.

“(Cruz’s) father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald being, you know, shot”, Trump said in May of the father of his primary rival Ted Cruz, citing an article in the tabloid National Enquirer.

For quite some time now North Carolina airwaves have been a Trump free zone, at least in terms of ads. She had nothing to say.

He doesn’t think the rhetoric is “that bad” – compared to the “incendiary” rhetoric in the first 100 years of US history.

Trump Texas fundraising co-chair Gaylord Hughey called the interpretation of his remark as condoning violence “ridiculous” and “ludicrous”.

“Hillary Clinton is a federal felon”, McClure said.

The latest poll, taken August 5-8, showed that even a big chunk of registered Republicans have ran out of patience with their candidate, with 19% of them saying it was time for him to drop out of the race.

The heated disapproval of both major party candidates have caused some to consider third-party options, such as Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson.

Ashton, who believes the country’s two-party system is “a joke”, is happy to see others getting more attention.

The new poll reflects the position of a number of high-ranking Republicans.

Almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos August 5-8 poll released on Wednesday want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House and another 10 percent “don’t know” whether the Republican nominee should or not.

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The letter said: “From a foreign-policy perspective, Donald Trump is not qualified to be president and commander-in-chief”.

Evan Vucci  AP
Trump made his outburst on Tuesday night