Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Nearly one-fifth of the registered Republican voters want Trump to drop out of the race. That is based on a survey of 1,162 registered voters, with a confidence interval of 3 percentage points. Polls have Hillary leading by wide margins of nearly 10% or more after Trump’s latest joke.
Clinton’s campaign decried Trump’s “dangerous” language and demanded in a statement that presidential hopefuls “not suggest violence in any way”.
In July, a Trump delegate and advisor was investigated by the Secret Service for saying Hillary Clinton should be killed.
Trump, meanwhile, has secured 191 electoral votes with what are reliably Republican voting states, mostly in the Great Plains and the South.
Other top Republicans, including Senator Susan Collins of ME this week, have disavowed Trump but said they can not back Clinton.
This remark was even jaw-dropping for Trump’s supporters.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Wednesday accused Republican opponent Donald Trump of inciting violence with his call for gun rights activists to stop her from nominating liberal US Supreme Court justices.
At the North Carolina rally he said that if Mrs Clinton were elected and appointed left-wing judges to the US Supreme Court there was nothing people could do.
“Second Amendment people have unbelievable spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, said a statement from Trump’s campaign.
Strategists and Trump detractors agreed that it would be hard, if not impossible, to remove Trump from the Republican ticket. He has not done anything since to change her mind, and believes he should leave the race. Florida Republican consultant Brett Doster said simply of the state “If we don’t win here, I just don’t see how we win”.
This comes after Trump received a huge backlash on both sides of the political aisle after he criticized the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier who died during the Iraq war in 2004. Susan Collins (R-Maine), as well as 50 GOP national security experts, have all come out, with harsh language, to say to they can not support Trump’s candidacy.
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“And now his casual inciting of violence”, she said. “If he didn’t say those things, then the media couldn’t make an issue of it”. “He was talking about how they have the power to keep her out of office”, Giuliani said, later adding: “With a crowd like that, if that’s what they thought he’d meant, they’d have gone wild”.
But the problem, as someone told me, is that Trump “puts his foot in his mouth about eight times for every one time Hillary does”.
“But I think that debates between the two of us would be very good”.
The Clinton camp were quick to respond to the comment.
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Almost 63 percent have an unfavorable view of Trump.
