“He’s running on the ticket with a loudmouth bully, but Mike Pence isn’t in the name-calling business”. ROMNEY REPUBLICANS Ohio, with its 18 electoral votes, is crucial for Trump and he has campaigned intensively in the state.
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Indeed, former KKK leader David Duke offered fresh praise for the way that Trump and running mate Mike Pence are handling the controversy. “It really does seem like an easy target, an easy layup for Republicans to score points”, said Ron Bonjean, a veteran GOP strategist.
Pence said he was “not going to validate the language Hillary Clinton used to describe the American people”.
Pence said to Blitzer, “What Hillary Clinton did that Friday night was shocking”, in which he was referring to her comment calling Trump’s supporters a basket of deplorables.
That race to the bottom of the bottom was left to the Post’s Dana Milbank but not before he began by decreeing that “If anything, when it comes to Trump’s racist support, she might have low-balled the number”. Isn’t it enough, Pence asked, that he and Trump have disavowed Duke’s endorsement?
Farenthold also reported that Trump used $20,000 of money from his charity to buy a gift, a painting of himself for himself. Another wore a homemade shirt that read, “I’m with deplorable”.
Clinton, who has said she is the candidate to unify a divided country, made the “deplorables” comment at a fundraiser Friday night in NY. She looks down on the carpenters, plumbers, electricians, lawyers and accountants. One of Trump’s harshest Republican critics, South Carolina Sen. As several protesters were being escorted out by security, a man in the crowd grabbed a male protester around the neck and then punched him. The incident was captured by assembled television networks.
“This simple fact is that I’m not in the name calling business”, the in governor added. Pence said, “No. I’m not in the name calling business, Wolf”.
“We are pleased to disclose all of the test results which show that Mr. Trump is in excellent health, and has the stamina to endure — uninterrupted — the rigors of a punishing and unprecedented presidential campaign and, more importantly, the singularly demanding job of President of the United States”, the statement said. Democratic presidential candidates have won Pennsylvania since 1992, but Trump hopes to flip to win the White House in November. “That was an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have practiced on the world stage”. Her campaign argues that Trump will struggle to connect with such voters if he’s viewed as fostering white supremacists.
Pence told House Republicans in the closed-door meeting that he didn’t know Trump when they first met, but had gotten to know him well, citing what he said was Trump’s kindness and things he’s done to show that he’s different than what people see on TV. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a Clinton ally. But Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has changed all that. “It’s ridiculous that they attack me because of my involvement in that nonviolent Klan four decades ago”.
You could even read her remarks as an attempt to persuade liberals to have more sympathy for Trump voters: Some of them, she was saying, were not racists, homophobes and so on, but rather felt let down by their government and stressed by the economy.
Why should Middle America, given what she thinks of us, render a President Hillary Clinton and her regime any more allegiance or loyalty than Colin Kaepernick renders to the America he so abhors?
At a rally on August 25 Clinton strongly criticized Trump for using his campaign to promote prejudice. “I truly believe that”, she said.
Republican operative Ryan Williams, a former Romney aide, warned that the Trump approach carries risk.
David Duke: “It’s Good To See An Individual Like Pence And Others Start To Reject This Absolute Controlled Media.” .
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Some of Trump’s supporters have sarcastically embraced the term, a few posting joke photos on social media while a bus tour co-sponsored by a pro-Trump Super PAC group kicked off its ride across Florida with the shout “Welcome, deplorables!”
