Richard Hanna became the first Republican lawmaker to publicly support Clinton over Trump.
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Trump urged the public to “watch very closely” when the Nov 8 elections roll around and called on Republicans to be vigilant since he fears the transparency of the voting process could be threatened. Her post-convention bounce correlated with a slight decrease in both the “others” and Trump’s percentage of the vote, which has declined slightly but steadily since his convention ended and the Democrats took the spotlight.
Khizr Khan, father of the fallen soldier, slammed Trump last week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia for his proposal for temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States to deal with the threat of jihadist terrorism. John McCain was not a war hero because he was caught, Or the countless other insults he’s proudly lobbed from behind the Republican presidential podium.
Hanna’s retirement gives him the leeway to risk upsetting colleagues and voters.
“I will be hopeful and resolute in my belief that being a good American who loves his country is far more important than parties or winning and losing”, Hanna said. “I think Trump is a national embarrassment”, Hanna, who is retiring at the end of this term, told Syracuse.com.
Donald Trump is refusing to support House Speaker Paul Ryan and longtime Sen. Still, top Republican lawmakers have not withdrawn their support for Mr Trump as the party’s presidential pick.
Clinton allies believe that they, along with Vice-President Joe Biden, are best positioned to make her case to wary audiences. Trump led Clinton by 1 point in the last CBS poll after the Republican National Convention.
“She lacks the charm that Obama or her husband had”, he said.
Across regions where blue-collar jobs have evaporated, Mrs Clinton is attempting a delicate balancing act: insisting she is not satisfied with the economy even as she defends Mr Obama’s work.
Interviewed on the Fox Business television network, Trump brushed off billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s blistering critique of his business acumen. Mr Trump has said he can not until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has completed an audit.
“That’s where I am”, Dent said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. “I’m under audit, too, and I would be delighted to meet him anyplace, anytime, before the election”. We asked her about that idea. Because “we don’t know if they’re ISIS”, Trump said of migrants from the Middle East, the result would be “the all-time great Trojan horse”.
While a number of Congressional Republicans have openly repudiated Trump and said they will not vote for him – including Sen.
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Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKa.N, scorned Trump’s 1995 move to list Trump hotels and casino resorts on the New York Stock Exchange, saying it lost money for the next decade and that a monkey would have outperformed Trump’s company.
