“We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide”, read a draft text of the letter to Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, which was obtained by the Politico newspaper.
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Republican nominee Donald Trump has suggested ISIS is eager for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win the November presidential election.
Republican leaders have repeatedly stated that the foreign policies of President Obama and his former secretary of state Clinton were to blame for helping to create the conditions that allowed the IS group to grow in Iraq and Syria. One of the worst mistakes in the history of our country we destabilised the Middle East.
“I think that those type of comments had no place in our public discourse and was disappointed to hear” them, Corker said of Trump’s Second Amendment statement.
Trump was not expected to attend the Orlando gathering after staging a rally near here on Thursday.
His remarks followed a troubled week for the Republican candidate.
“ISIS is a solid GOP message to show contrast with Hillary Clinton and the failures of the Obama-Clinton administration”, said Alice Stewart, a Republican strategist who remains undecided about the nominee, using acronyms for Islamic State and the Republican Party. An average of polls by RealClearPolitics has Clinton 7.7 percentage points ahead, at 48 per cent to his 40.3 per cent.
SEE MORE: President Obama Isn’t The Founder Of ISIS. And so was she. ‘He shouldn’t have gotten out the way he got out. “It was a disaster, what he did”, he told CNBC.
The White House declined to comment on Trump’s claim. AQ-I fed off the deep sense of Sunni disenfranchisement after the United States made a decision to disband the Iraqi army and Saddam Hussein’s powerful Ba’ath party.
Now, Trump is arguing that in trying to end the war and withdrawing USA troops in 2011, Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, and Obama created Islamic State.
Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich, in response to Trump’s comments, pointed to USA advances against the militant group in Libya this week. “The reality is that every time these days that Donald Trump opens his mouth, America is diminished in the eyes of the world”, Rothkopf said.
“Is there something wrong with saying that?”. “It was Hillary Clinton that ― she should get an award from them as the founder of ISIS”.
“Look, all I do is tell the truth”. “Stay on script. Don’t go off script”. Trump bristles at the notion he should change.
The tweet was the first move by Trump to moderate his comments, which he had repeated multiple times since he featured them in a speech Wednesday night and which came under fire from the Clinton campaign and many Democrats. “What happens when he presses the nuclear button and then the next day says, “Oh, I’m sorry, I was just being sarcastic”?”
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In addition, Trump’s claims about the Obama administration and Islamic State may give new life to conspiracy theories in the USA among members of the far-right and about its origins floating around the Middle East and South Asia, he said.
