After Donald Trump embraced a new allegation against Hillary Clinton on Monday, Twitter critics have come out in force to mock him over one of his favorite segues to controversial innuendo and political mudslinging. “He can not tolerate personal criticism”, the letter said.
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William Ruckelshaus, who served under presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and William Reilly, who worked with George H.W. Bush, said backing away now from crucial progress on global climate initiatives “would set the world back decades”.
Susan Collins, a lifelong Republican who represents ME in the Senate, said Trump is unfit to be president. At the same time, he argued that a Clinton presidency would expose the country to the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists. There’s nothing remarkable about that statement or her piece in the Washington Post explaining her non-endorsement unless you mention the fact that Collins is in fact Sen.
The latest proposed cuts aren’t as severe as the ones introduced by Trump previous year.
Trump, too, had his eye on the most competitive states.
She leads Trump by an average of 7.5 percentage points in recent polls tracked by Real Clear Politics with one poll, released August 4 by McClatchy / Marist College showing Clinton with a 15 point lead.
Trump gained 1.2 percentage points and Hillary Clinton dropped by 1.3 percentage points, though she still holds an overall lead, 49.1 percent to 44.3 percent over Trump in data released Tuesday. If he complains, Clinton will say he’s afraid to face her.
The group joins members of the security establishment who have already come out against Trump, including former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Morell, who last Friday accused Trump of being an “unwitting agent” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Aides say they hope to build on polls showing Clinton gaining ground on economic issues, which have made up the core of Trump’s campaign message. “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump”.
So far, Trump has not addressed the Zika response in depth, though he told a Florida television station last week that Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, “really seems to have it under control in Florida”.
He shared the comments Monday during an MSNBC interview, when he urged the Republican National Committee to replace Trump as the nominee. But Trump suggested Tuesday there will be no dramatic change of strategy.
She accused Trump of offering “super big tax breaks” to huge companies and rich people and disputed his claim that she wanted the middle class to pay more.
He attacked the parents of a US soldier killed in Iraq.
In a gesture of defiance, Trump initially refused to endorse Ryan and Senator John McCain, another leading GOP lawmaker and vocal critic of Trump, for their reelection bid for congressional seats.
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Recent polls show Trump squandered away any bump he got from his own convention in Cleveland with many missteps last week, including his refusal to back away from criticizing the grieving Kahn family.
