“Words have tremendous power when you’re the president”, Harrison said Wednesday.
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Speaking to supporters in Des Moines, she said: “We may not agree on everything, but this is not a normal election”.
Donald Trump’s campaign feels like it’s in perpetual damage control – and it shouldn’t be.
And I agree. Trump’s gaffes are too numerous to rehash here but his most recent was his verbal lashing of the Khan family, whose son was a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq. “Donald Trump clearly wasn’t inciting violence, I think, but he was more than imprecise with his words”.
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.
With Team Trump seeking to dig the candidate out of a deepening hole, former NY mayor and Trump backer Rudy Giuliani insisted the uproar was triggered by “the Clinton spin machine”.
Reuters reported that a government official said the Secret Service did not “formally” speak to the Trump campaign.
Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, said the problem with Mr Trump was that he “seems to do this over and over again”.
While there is a lot of time left in the campaign, Trump has pushed away many educated moderates over the past few week, and his tumbling poll numbers in some important swing states have demonstrated that.
Donald Trump made a startling accusation against President Barack Obama during a Florida rally Wednesday night, telling supporters that the commander in chief is the “founder of ISIS”.
Two weeks ago, Mr Trump sparked huge controversy when he called on Russian Federation to hack into Mrs Clinton’s emails.
Clinton’s campaign fired back by saying Trump’s comments were “dangerous” and suggesting he was enticing “violence”. S.C. Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison conceded he didn’t believe Trump was seriously recommending that Clinton be shot to prevent her from appointing Supreme Court justices, but did say the comments didn’t diminish the seriousness of the incident.
At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Mr Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment. Although the Second Amendment people maybe there is, I don’t know, But I’ll tell you what, that will be a terrible day”, Trump declared.
At a later rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina Trump avoided addressing his controversial comments. His remarks also fueled widespread concerns about his ability to stay on track.
“Sometimes I think he has good intentions, but his mouth gets overloaded”, said McDaniel, a relocation director for a real estate company in Louisiana.
At the end of last month, a CNN/ORC poll showed the Republican candidate leading Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by three points. “And you look at the power they have in terms of votes and that’s what I was referring to, obviously that’s what I was referring to, and everybody knows it”.
Six GOP senators and a number of House Republicans have disowned him too.
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Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog which obtained the emails, said they raised questions about favours between the State Department and the private Clinton Foundation.
