Mr Trump responded, saying Mr Khan “viciously attacked” him, and suggested the man was repeating lines fed to him by the Clinton campaign.
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Trump is promising to boost U.S. GDP to the 4% level. One of the most enduring moments of the hearing, alluded to many times over in the wake of Trump’s comments, came courtesy of Joseph Welch, a former Army chief counsel who was moved to directly confront McCarthy about his witch hunt. She voted for Obama in 2008 and worked for Ted Cruz during his Senate campaign in 2012, and after impressing Trump during her time with the Texas senator, he hired her as spokesperson, where as the Daily Dot’s Amrita Khalid wrote, “Pierson serves as the Trump campaign’s most visible form of damage control”. In contrast, many more Americans said they were less likely (51%) rather than more likely (36%) to vote for Donald Trump as a result of what they saw or read about the Republican convention. “I don’t know if you’ve seen the warning charts, but we have many, many bridges that are in danger of falling”.
A new ad supporting Hillary Clinton uses the words of Republican leaders and appointees to make the case that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit to lead the United States.
The Republican nominee had implied that Ghazala Khan, mother of Capt. Humayun Khan, stood silently alongside her husband at the Democratic National Convention because her Muslim religion restricted her from speaking.
Though he noted he did not agree with Clinton on every issue, the congressman cited education and women’s health care as two topics that the two agreed on. “But I would love to give the tax returns”.
Trump last summer said former Vietnam prisoner of war McCain wasn’t a hero because he was captured, before going on to win his party’s nomination.
Trump’s extraordinary claim – one he did not back up with any immediate evidence – would, if it became more than just an offhand comment, seem to threaten the tradition of peacefully contested elections and challenge the very essence of a fair democratic process.
“There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough, ‘” Obama, a Democrat, told reporters.
Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, has sought to stop the political bleeding. Reassuring and rallying Republican lawmakers there could help Trump shore up his standing against Clinton.
“I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her”, Whitman said in a telephone interview.
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“You would expect Hillary to blow him out of the water, and she is not”, he said.
