Trump struck a rare conciliatory tone at a Wisconsin rally on Friday, imploring his party to unite behind him and opening a full-throttle attack on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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“We are not going to be deporting the hard-working people and breaking up families”, she said in front of the mostly African-American and Latino audience.
Donald Trump stands with Mike Pence.
“We will have disagreements”.
It was an unusual gesture for Trump, who is known for his refusal to admit mistakes and his tendency to double down when he’s under attack.
The refusal to back Ryan had been seen by many as a final straw.
Trump’s supporters chanted “Lock her up!” during the event in the town of Windham, which was broadcast online.
Things look a great deal like they did at this point in the race when Barack Obama defeated John McCain in those states in 2008, an election he won by 7.3 percentage points overall.
When asked what women he would nominate to his Cabinet if elected, Donald Trump offered only his daughter Ivanka’s name.
Trump also threw his support behind Arizona Sen. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
He reversed course and endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan for re-election on Friday, pledging to work with Republican Party leaders.
Trump’s tanking poll numbers in such key electoral battlegrounds as Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, which also both boast competitive U.S. Senate races, have national Republicans sweating their Senate majority.
Trump would take 181 electoral votes, swinging only Georgia, Missouri and one of Maine’s congressional districts among the toss-up contests into his column. The presidential nominee’s decision to withhold his support had underscored the deep divide that remains between Trump and much of the Republican Party. Keep in mind she’s a conservative republican.
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president”, he said, “you will have really, in my opinion, the destruction of this country from within”. Half say the same of Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state, after unlikely rival Bernie Sanders forced her to fight for the nomination for a year. “She’s weak. She’s a weak person”.
With both two candidates strongly disliked by people outside their bases, many Americans are seeing the 2016 USA presidential race as a choice between “the lesser of two evils”. He directly contradicted numerous statements Mrs Clinton had made about her use of the server.
However, Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, didn’t appear to fully engage on the issue until Friday night, after Clinton, in a press conference, suggested she “short circuited” her remarks Sunday and was in fact saying Comey acknowledged her being truthful with the FBI during the agency’s investigation into the email issue.
More than half of young whites – 54 percent – think Clinton intentionally committed a crime, and another 17 percent think she did so unintentionally.
“I have acknowledged repeatedly that using two email accounts was a mistake and I take responsibility for that but I do think having him say that my answers to the Federal Bureau of Investigation were truthful and, then I should quickly add, that what I said was consistent with what I said publicly and that’s really in my view ties my both ends together”, Clinton added.
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“If they do a good job, I won’t cut them at all”, Trump told The Wall Street Journal about his project contractors.
