“Words matter”, Clinton said at a rally in Des Moines. A number of prominent Republicans have declined to endorse him in the November 8 election against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, citing his fiery rhetoric and policy proposals such as building a wall along the U.S. “By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
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“I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”, she said.
“And I would say, the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton”, he said.
“Let me get this straight, Hillary Clinton shared a stage last night with the father of the shooter in the Orlando massacre and you are asking me if Trump was right to encourage 2 Amendment supporters to vote, en masse, to ensure their constitutional rights?”
Trump’s campaign quickly issued a clarification that the Republican candidate didn’t want anyone to kill Clinton, and said he was simply talking about the political power of Second Amendment defenders at the ballot box.
Republican House Leader Paul Ryan told reporters Tuesday he had heard about Trump’s comment and that it sounded like a “joke gone bad”.
The New York Daily News and the Donald Trump campaign have not seen eye-to-eye.
“I would actually say that the media is nearly as crooked as crooked Hillary Clinton”, Mr Trump said.
“I think we’re going to have very good debates”.
“Voter ID seems to be eliminated in North Carolina”, Trump said.
He said during a campaign event in Abingdon, Va., that broadcast networks such as CNN and MSNBC took his comments wildly out of context.
Clinton’s campaign now has a website for Republicans and political independents to sign up in support of Clinton.
John Negroponte, former director of national intelligence under president George W Bush, and former Republican US representative Chris Shays of CT, were among those who announced their support yesterday.
“Like most Americans, I was surprised by the statement”, Burr said in a release.
Among them was a 2009 email in which Doug Band, a former official at the Clinton Foundation charity run by former President Bill Clinton, directed two Hillary Clinton aides to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department official dealing with Lebanon. “And, frankly, he’s risky”, Shays told MSNBC in an interview.
Other top Republicans, including Senator Susan Collins of ME, have disavowed Mr Trump.
DONALD TRUMP: It’s called pay-for-play.
Among Clinton supporters, 48 percent said stopping Trump was their main reason for voting for Clinton.
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But lawmakers, former national security officials and other critics expressed concern that he had advocated violence, possibly in jest, against Clinton or her Supreme Court nominees.
