While almost 33% of Republicans said that they viewed Trump unfavorably, only 17% of Democrats had an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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Most Republicans also support Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigration, while a majority of Americans oppose it. On Tuesday in Pittsburgh, Clinton blasted the billionaire for peddling “lies” because “he has to distract us from the fact he has nothing substantive to say”.
“We’re starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we’re fighting, where this can lead us, ” Obama said today.
“Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested President Obama is on the side of the terrorists”, Clinton said.
“Trump’s unsteadiness and lack of stability and his inclination for overreaction undermines everything else that Republicans are trying to say about national security”, Garin said.
Many people may not want to have beers with either one of these candidates but they seem to be able to get past the usual reflexive assumptions about Republicans and Democrats.
Other Republicans also tried to distance themselves from Trump.
Trump said the shooter, Omar Mateen, was born “in Afghan, of Afghan parents, who immigrated to the United States”.
Donald Trump is doubling down on his suggestion that President Barack Obama is somehow sympathetic to Islamic extremism.
Obama said that Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim immigrants – plus any immigrants from world terror hotspots – and the wedge he drives between Americans makes the nation more risky, noted NBC.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), said he was “disappointed” by Trump’s speech. Lindsey Graham – have it easy. “They used it to justify the slaughter of innocents, including Muslims as well”.
“I guess I appreciate Mr. Trump’s fieriness in talking about it, and strength, but you don’t do it by alienating the very people we need and those are moderate Muslims”, said Kinzinger.
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I don’t know that our country would ever, ever come back”, he said.
“That terrorist in Orlando was not born in Afghanistan as Trump claims”, Clinton said.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC denounced Trump’s comments about Obama as “highly offensive”.
Speaking to thousands of supporters for the first time since the attacks, Trump repeated several falsehoods made in his Monday speech.
Gunther Peck of Duke University said in an interview before the rally that the immigration ideas Trump laid out Monday are not practical or serious, and would damage US foreign policy.
On Wednesday, however, Trump proved The Washington Post right, again, by tweeting the same insinuation in even less subtle terms. Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, has repeatedly said he believes “Letting Trump be Trump” is the key to the campaign’s success. She added to that Tuesday, when her staff stepped between her and a reporter to say she would not be commenting on Trump.
“We do not have a nominee until after the convention”, Alexander asserted in response to a question.
“Donald Trump is a trash talker”.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said the candidate was retweeting a message from another Twitter user.
In March, a Nova Scotia DJ launched the website “Cape Breton If Trump Wins”, letting Americans know that residents of the East Coast island will welcome them with open arms. “I find that whole line of reasoning way off-base”, said Sen.
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In interviews and most of all in a speech in the hours that followed, he reiterated his pledge to impose a total ban on Muslims entering the US. “I do not think it is reflective of our principles”. “I’ve offered words of public encouragement [to Trump] in important times and continue to be discouraged by the results”.
