On Wednesday, ABC News reported that top Republican operatives were looking at ways to deal with an unprecedented scenario: What would the party do if their nominee dropped out of the race? And so, for dyed-in-the-wool Republicans not supporting Trump, the lingering question is: Who will you vote for? Trump has exposed deepening party divisions by refusing to endorse GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election and continuing to criticize the family of a slain USA soldier.
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The Trump campaign has been boasting of how many small donations it has been receiving, saying in a Wednesday statement that those donations were up by 69 percent in July.
Therefore, I have chose to support Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Beat Crooked H!” – a reference to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump has spent the days since the Democratic convention litigating whether their son is a hero, and on Tuesday only moved onto an equally unhelpful news cycle: whether he supports House Speaker Paul Ryan, and the 2008 presidential nominee, John McCain, in their primaries.
The 30-second spot shows clips of 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, former CIA Director Michael Hayden and others questioning Trump’s temperament and foreign policy experience.
Clinton still has significantly more money in the bank than Trump; her campaign has $58 million on hand, compared to Trump’s $37 million. A slightly larger share of Clinton supporters (66%) said their conversations focused on personalities and candidate comments than the share of Trump supporters that said the same (53%). The RealClearPolitics average of recent national polls put her 4.5 percentage points ahead of Trump, at 46.5 percent to 42 percent.
As of Monday, however, Trump was still at it. He held a campaign rally in Daytona, Florida, and took to Twitter to trumpet the cohesiveness of his campaign.
Pence’s endorsement, which came in a phone call to Fox News Channel, came as Trump and his aides struck back against reports of panic inside the Republican Party and word that the Ryan controversy infuriated party Chairman Reince Priebus.
The ad is running in nine battleground states. Clinton raised about $90 million over the same period.
Trump’s stunning slap at two of the nation’s most prominent Republicans dramatically escalated GOP turmoil barely a week after a convention meant to promote party unity.
“She stands and has stood for causes bigger than herself for a lifetime”, he said.
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A former reality TV star with a propensity for free-flowing insults, Trump has won support particularly from white blue-collar workers who feel neglected by the political establishment.
