His latest unforced mishap: an off-hand remark that critics quickly slammed as a suggestion that gun-rights backers should take a literal shot at Hillary Clinton should she win the White House. She then noted her growing list of Republican supporters, saying they were backing her “not as Republicans, but as Americans”.
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“What Trump is saying is unsafe”, said Clinton Campaign chair Robby Mook.
“By the way, and if she gets the pick – if she gets the pick of her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
Rather – who covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas – called Trump’s “Second Amendment people” remark “a new low”, unprecedented “in the history of American presidential politics”.
The poll could also show if Wisconsin continues to buck the national trend of Republican Senate candidates outperforming Trump.
Trump said Tuesday evening that he was simply trying to unify gun owners against Clinton in the voting booth.
The controversial remarks, made during a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, centred on a future president’s power to appoint US Supreme Court justices.
“He wasn’t inciting violence”, Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, told CNN.
Clinton supports some changes in the law to prevent guns, specially assault rifles used in most cases of mass shooting, falling into the wrong hands, as does a majority of the country according to many polls.
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.
I believe most Trump supporters are actually smarter than their candidate and more tolerant.
Newly released Clinton emails obtained through a Freedom of Information request by Judicial Watch revealed that the State Department warned Clinton in advance that people were interested in her emails. And, he referred to my hands – ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem.
“He has dug himself a deep hole overall because he’s allowed the race to become a referendum on his fitness to be president”, said Republican strategist and Trump supporter Ford O’Connell.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton launched an open appeal today to independents and Republicans repulsed by Donald Trump, after the party’s nominee again sparked controversy with comments seen by some as a threat against her.
Clinton’s campaign now has a website for Republicans and political independents to sign up to pledge their support.
First up on the Trump tour was Rudy Giuliani, who popped into action last night (which we’ll get to in a moment) and on Wednesday morning’s episode of Good Morning America.
Both Clinton and Trump are now eligible to receive classified briefings as their party’s nominees.
Forty-eight per cent of respondents said they are following the presidential race more than those in the past.
Secret Service will be looking into the matter as well, since his statements are a threat against former Presidents and certain other persons under 8 U.S.C. § 879 of the US Code – Section 879.
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Other states have shown similar effects, although Trump could still be dragging down the poll numbers of sitting senators a bit.
