Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus spoke to Donald Trump about the direction of his campaign and his impact on down-ballot races, sources tell CNN. “But I think Donald Trump.at this time and place would be a better commander in chief”, King told MSNBC.
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“No such meeting or conversation ever happened”, Trump tweeted in response to CNN’s report.
In the last few weeks alone, Trump has drawn scorn for insulting Gold Star parents, encouraging Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and suggesting that the USA shouldn’t uphold its NATO obligations unless its allies under the critical treaty pay their fair share of costs.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, he added.
He then said that there was nothing people could do to stop Mrs Clinton from stacking the Supreme Court with anti-gun justices, before stating vaguely that “although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is – I don’t know”.
“Honestly, about 50% of the time now, I find myself seriously thinking Trump’s whole candidacy is a clever Bill Clinton plot to put Hillary in the White House irrespective of how unelectable she is and destroy the GOP for a generation”, Mair said. On Tuesday night, Trump said he was calling on Second Amendment supporters to vote – even though his comment involved a scenario in which Clinton had already won the presidency. By any objective analysis, this is a new low and unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics. Spokesman Jason Miller said Trump’s remarks were about the “amazing spirit” of Second Amendment advocates, “which gives them great political power”. “(.) There can be no other interpretation”.
Sitting behind Trump at his rally on Wednesday was former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who resigned in 2006 after allegations he sent sexually suggestive messages to former House pages.
“Words matter my friends”, Clinton said disapprovingly, citing his comments. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll taken August 5-8 – before Trump’s latest controversy – showed that almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans said they want Trump to drop out of the race and another 10 percent said they “don’t know” whether the Republican nominee should or not.
However, two of Trump’s most visible SC backers, North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey and Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, said there was no cause for fear and that the reaction has been overblown.
“This was a joke”.
Trump, a NY businessman, was seeking to reset his campaign this week with an economic policy speech after a series of missteps that included a prolonged clash with the parents of fallen Muslim American Army Captain Humayun Khan.
And while a sympathetic Supreme Court would allow the court to rule in favor of certain gun control measures and chip away at the Second Amendment in aggregate, as Trump has suggested. “He had no idea that anybody would interpret his words that way”. Obviously it’s not a trade-off that leaves everyone happy, but it provides the bedrock of legitimacy for an elected regime and reinforces the idea that the proper means for transferring political power is through democratic elections. Never mind that Trump just made a huge change in his economic policy.
She has so far only taken to Twitter saying, “A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way”. “To think that joking about any kind of violence could be amusing. simply reflects a disregard for the impact of violence”.
“It is, in fact, risky for the country”, she said. “I didn’t actually hear the comments but I heard about these comments”, Ryan said.
And former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather posted on Facebook that Trump “crossed a line with risky potential”.
She accused Trump of participating in an “inciting of violence” from his supporters against her.
Trump’s accusation – and his use of the president’s middle name, Hussein – echoed previous instances where he’s questioned Obama’s loyalties.
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A four-way contest, including Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein, had Clinton and Trump tied at 35 percent.
