Prior to the event, Joel Arends, who heads Veterans for a Strong America, announced the group’s endorsement of Trump’s candidacy, despite refraining from endorsing a candidate until well into the primary season in the 2012 presidential cycle.
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Last week, his failure to answer tough security and international affairs queries posed by radio host Hugh Hewitt – who will be challenging candidates at this week’s debate – highlighted his lack of foreign policy bona fides.
Trump has criticized the Washington-based Club for Growth as being bitter because he refused to give them a $1 million contribution. The group hosting Trump tonight is best known for running advertisements in 2012 that were critical of President Barack of Obama, contending he took too much credit for the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
For now, though, Club for Growth is going it alone. So far both the groups had been feuding on the social media and Club of Growth gets the first mover advantage in Iowa.
Donald Trump also denied Club for Growth’s claims that he does not want to lower taxes.
The second attack ad bashed Trump for supporting “eminent-domain abuse”, or the supposedly inappropriate seizure of private land for a public purpose. A recent CBS/YouGov poll released in early September found Trump leading the GOP field with 29 percent support followed by Ben Carson with 25 percent and Sen. Instead, their strategy appears to be to wait for the star of the political summer to fade on his own.
The ad begins with photos of Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton and asks, “Which presidential candidate supports higher taxes, national health care, and the Wall Street bailout?”
“I’m signing (the petition) because Trump’s message should not be heard in a community that is largely made up of hard-working immigrants and people of color”, Flor Barajas Tena of Santa Ana wrote.
“Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States”, Pataki said.
In one ad, the narrator says “Trump wants us to think he’s mister tell-it-like-it-is”.
“With the scenery-chewing, oxygen-sucking political black hole that is Donald Trump, I have one question for the “don’t attack” camp; how’s that working out for you?”
“It’s something that’s special [and] believe me they don’t have it, they just don’t have it”. Through the end of June, donors backing Trump’s Republican opponents had given about $300 million, Federal Election Commission reports show.
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Campaigns have struggled with how to handle the front-runner, with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush finally stepping forward around Labor Day to take on Trump.
