She then noted her growing list of Republican supporters, saying they were backing her “not as Republicans, but as Americans”. The poll has a confidence interval of six percentage points.
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Among all registered voters, some 44 per cent want Trump to drop out. That is 9 points higher than his support for the presidency in the latest Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post saying the party was in “uncharted waters” and called for leaders to start looking for ways to remove Mr Trump from the ticket.
As Trump struggled to turn the page on a hard period in his campaign, Clinton’s campaign continued a push to win over Republicans and independents Wednesday, launching a group called “Together for America”.
Other top Republicans, including Senator Susan Collins, have disavowed Trump but said they won’t back Clinton, either.
“His policies don’t seem to be well formed, they don’t seem to make any sense”, Smith said.
Harry Sloan, the former chief of MGM and a major GOP donor, is not just supporting Clinton he’s trying to help the campaign recruit other Republicans.
At a rally on Tuesday, Trump suggested gun rights activists could prevent Clinton from placing liberals on the US Supreme Court.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, Trump said with a shrug, adding: “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”.
Calling on Republicans to cross party lines to support her, Hillary Clinton is warning that Donald Trump’s comments about Second Amendment supporters are just another example of how his words could have “tremendous consequences”.
At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Mr Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment”. It is no longer really the Republican party, it is the party of Trump. He has not done anything since to change her mind, and believes he should leave the race. And there are few things so powerful, I have to say, in terms of politics.
Trump had previously stirred criticism for engaging in a spat with the parents of a Muslim U.S. soldier killed in Iraq. Trump dismissed the group as part of the Washington establishment that he blames for numerous United States’ problems.
His campaign says the comment was misinterpreted as it sparked backlash from Clinton’s campaign as well as some Republicans.
“Sometimes I think he has good intentions, but his mouth gets overloaded”, said McDaniel, a relocation director for a real estate company in Louisiana.
Trump and his campaign had quickly sought to douse the flames, insisting the Republican flagbearer was merely urging gun rights supporters to reject her candidacy at the ballot box.
“I think that she can speak to Republicans”. “As the lesser of two evils is why I’m voting for him”.
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On CNN Wednesday morning, Shays encouraged Republicans who were against Trump but not on board with Clinton yet to take another look at the former secretary of State.
