Yet on Thursday, he was reduced to citing a poll that showed him a few points behind Ms Clinton and arguing that the race was close. This is not a reality TV show.
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On Aug. 1, Trump told Fox News personality Sean Hannity he was concerned because in 2012 a handful of Philadelphia precincts didn’t register a single vote for Mitt Romney. “It could cost us the Supreme Court”.
Donald Trump declared Friday that there’s only one way he could lose the state of Pennsylvania: if he’s cheated out of it.
“We can not let this evil continue”, Trump said. The officials weren’t authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.
During a Democrat presidential primary debate in New Hampshire back in December, Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump for allegedly encouraging ISIS.
Trump tweeted that the media was missing his sarcasm. “Donald Trump, the Republican Party, all of you, we’re going to put him in the White House and save this country together”. “Not all of them, they have about 25 percent that are pretty good, actually”.
“You can say Trump and his friend Putin are the founder of ISIS, which would probably be more accurate than calling out the commander-in-chief in that way”, she concluded. “Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don’t know”, Trump said at a campaign event in North Carolina on Tuesday, August 9.
Last year, Trump similarly stated that “a lot of people think” Obama has “evil intentions” when it comes to his plan to resettle Syrian refugees, who Trump says are “probably” members of ISIS.
Trump campaign officials were scheduled to meet with Republican National Committee officials in Orlando for what was described as a routine meeting to discuss operations in Florida, a battleground state that Trump needs to win.
“How can Trump put this forward with a straight face when he opposes marriage equality and selected as his running mate the man who signed an anti-LGBT law in IN?” he said in a statement. “And all of the many adversaries that we face”, Trump said.
The proposal was one of several Trump outlined in an OH speech laying out his vision for fighting Islamic extremism.
Those concerns are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans gathered signatures on Thursday for a letter urging the party chairman to stop helping Mr Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates.
“What concerns me is that followers, supporters listen, and they can take a statement like that and do something risky with that”, Zelizer said.
A terrorist group not linked to ISIS subsequently came out with a recruitment/propaganda video that featured both Trump and Clinton. Its an instinct that Trumps opponents say a president cant possess.
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That is especially so against the backdrop of Trump’s repeated accusations that Obama and Clinton have been soft on terrorism, his allegations of an “almost criminal” conspiracy that allowed Americans to die at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the “lock her up” chants heard about Clinton at many Trump rallies, Zelizer said.
