Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren will keep up her assault on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday in a strongly worded speech labeling Trump a racist and accusing the Republican Party of fostering his intolerance. Curiel, who is of Hispanic descent, was born in Indiana.
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But the line does give us insight into how one of the leading progressives sees Trump, and it suggests how a Warren-led Democratic Party might respond in 2016 and beyond. They want those judges to tilt the law in favor of big businesses and billionaires like Donald Trump.
The Manhattan meeting at Trump Tower kicked off the Trump Victory Fund, the joint cash-raising operation with the RNC that plans to gather money both for his candidacy and for House and Senate GOP candidates. “It’s not like we have flawless candidates from whom to choose in this election”.
“I will not stand idly by listening to a person attacking the integrity of a judge due to their ethnicity”, Labrador, an Idaho Republican, said at a monthly news conference he holds with a group of his fellow conservatives in the House of Representatives.
Martinez has declined to say whether she voted for Trump in New Mexico’s presidential primary on Tuesday.
Last week, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a case involving Trump University, had a conflict of interest because of his “Mexican heritage”.
In her remarks, Warren also slammed Trump’s wealth, saying he has only been successful because he “inherited a fortune” and kept it “by cheating people”. “Never been done before”, he pointed out, but his confidence in Trump’s ability to win in November made the goal seem within reach. “Yeah. I’ve spoken very clearly about it. But I think and hope and believe he can fix this to the point where he can hopefully run a campaign that we can all be proud of”, Ryan told Milwaukee radio station WISN.
The endorsement came hours after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden also announced their support for Clinton.
Trump has launched himself into the high-dollar Republican fundraising world in recent weeks, hosting and attending several fundraisers around his campaign rally schedule.
A super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton launched a website dedicated to linking to media fact-checks that found Donald Trump guilty of “Four Pinnochios” or “Pants on Fire” statements.
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Whatever his current promises, Trump as president would be more likely to appoint pliant justices he felt he could bend to his will rather than selecting the independent Constitutionalists the country needs on the high court.
