Trump has been at the center of a political firestorm over the past week after feuding with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of the soldier.
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“I did invest and I got out, and it was actually very good timing”, the Republican presidential nominee said in a phone interview with Fox Business.
Trump made the claim after first suggesting that the Democrats had fixed their primary system so Hillary Clinton could defeat Bernie Sanders. Statistics website fivethirtyeight gives Florida the highest chance of being the key to winning the general election, at 16.4 percent.
One day after Obama spoke at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, Khizr Khan delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
“As someone who has worked to further the Republican Party’s principles for the last 15 years, I believe that we are at a moment where silence isn’t an option”, former Christie senior aide Maria Comella told CNN. Clinton’s campaign and pro-Clinton SuperPAC Priorities USA Action reserved an additional $98 million ads for the rest of the general election through November.
The statement could be an effort by Trump to lay the groundwork of an excuse if he loses the general election.
It became a frequent catchphrase of his during a low-water mark of his primary campaign this spring, when forces allied with Republican rival Ted Cruz managed to pack state delegations with supporters of the Texas senator.
Ms Clinton has 46 per cent support among voters and Mr Trump has support of 39 per cent, it said.
Clinton spokesman Jesse Ferguson and Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
With this Ms Clinton returned to her June lead margin. “I want someone to be president that my children can look up to”, he said to Syracuse.com.
But his running mate, Mike Pence, quieted a campaign rally crowd Monday that booed a woman who said she had a son who serves in the U.S. Air Force and asked how he can tolerate what she called Trump’s disrespect of American servicemen. “That’s what freedom sounds like”.
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“Trump has moved in exactly the opposite direction from our recommendations on how to make the party more inclusive”, said Ari Fleischer, who worked with Bradshaw on the GOP’s so-called post-election autopsy and was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush.
