Other top Republicans, including Senator Susan Collins of ME this week, have disavowed Trump but said they can not back Clinton.
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She says that words matter and “if you are running to be president or you are president of the United States words can have tremendous consequences”.
A government offical said the Secret Service never “formally” spoke to the Trump campaign about the comments.
When Donald Trump floated the idea of assassinating Hillary Clinton yesterday during a rally in North Carolina, the face of one bearded audience member behind the podium captured the same shock and disbelief many of us were feeling. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. “But I’ll tell you what, that will be a disgusting day”. The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees a right to keep and bear arms.
But the Secret Service, tasked with protecting the president and presidential nominees, was taking Trump’s remarks seriously and has spoken with Trump’s campaign about them, CNN reported.
In one email a Clinton Foundation lawyer asked for one of its donors Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire who was called a “key guy”, to be connected with officials in the State Department and the former US Ambassador to Lebanon.
The figures underscored deep divisions within the Republican Party over Trump’s candidacy.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll taken between August 5th and 8th showed that almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans want Mr Trump to drop out of the race for the White House and another 10 per cent “don’t know” whether the Republican nominee should or not.
But strategists cautioned that it would be hard, if not impossible, to remove Trump from the Republican ticket.
Officials for both the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee said the session is the type of typical meeting that takes place in the middle of a presidential campaign with three months to go until the November 8 election.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment”, said Trump.
The best moves for Trump’s detractors may be withholding their endorsements, refusing to raise money for his campaign, throwing their weight behind Clinton or holding out hope that he voluntarily quits.
It included a website where she listed dozens of high profile Republicans and Independents who had changed sides to endorse her. It lists 50 prominent Republicans and Independents who have endorsed her so far, including former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg. John Negroponte, former director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush, and former Republican U.S. Representative Chris Shays of CT were among those that announced their support on Wednesday. “But Mr. Trump is making me very nervous”. In addition, some states require that names on ballots be certified earlier than others. “And, frankly, he’s unsafe”.
On Monday, 50 Republican national security officials signed an open letter questioning Trump’s temperament, calling him reckless and unqualified to be president. Other polls have given Trump a lead but not the type of advantage that previous Republican nominees have enjoyed in the state.
Richard Curtin, director of the MI survey, noted that households who expected Hillary Clinton to become the next president had a significantly more upbeat view on how the US economy would do going forward.
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Clinton’s comments added to a growing outcry over Trump’s remarks on Tuesday at a North Carolina rally, which some interpreted as a call for violence against his White House rival.
