“Not as a Republican, not as a political person, but I think it’s just wrong as an American”.
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As the Presidential campaign progressed, I was hoping the rhetoric would tone down and reflect a campaign that was inclusive, thoughtful and principled.
Ryan made his comments at an event in a low-income neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where he was unveiling new proposals to fight poverty, the first piece in a six-plank governing agenda by the House GOP.
The senator’s role as an attack dog has raised speculation that she may be on the shortlist as a potential vice-presidential pick for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “This election is about who we are as a nation”. “Donald Trump chose racism as his weapon, but his aim is exactly the same as the rest of the Republicans”. Roughly an hour after his remarks ended, Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview airing Tuesday and Wednesday. In his statement on the matter earlier, he said he’d been “misconstrued” and that he was “justified in questioning” treatment by the judge.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has supported Trump’s candidacy, said during a press conference on Tuesday that Trump’s remarks were the textbook definition of a racist comment, as reported by CNN. In 22 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.
Trump argues that he is a movement candidate who can generate strong white support but also attract more African-Americans and Latinos than GOP nominees typically get. “We don’t have the best choices necessarily for president, but the reality is, one of them is going to be president of the United States, so I’m voting for Donald Trump”. Mark Kirk of IL, who is in a competitive re-election race, said in a statement.
Donald Trump released a statement on Tuesday assuring that his comments about the Mexican-American judge presiding a case against Trump University were misconstructed as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage.
Kirk suffered a stroke in 2012 and often uses a wheelchair.
“Some people say I’m too much of a fighter”, Trump said. It reminded voters in battleground states that Trump had mocked a disabled reporter.
A Ryan aide said the speaker described his thinking behind his Trump endorsement to his colleagues and told them he would continue criticizing the billionaire when needed.
“Let’s put it this way, it gave the appearance of impropriety”. He’s out of line.
“As fellow members of the professional legal community, it is incumbent upon us to defend Judge Curiel’s unimpeachable integrity and to highlight the dangers of such criticism of a federal judge by a presumptive presidential nominee”, Osuna said. “It’s totally off the wall, and I don’t even have words to explain it”.
Ditto for McConnell. He is desperate to remain majority leader, which won’t happen if Kirk and other endangered Republican senators are dragged down by Trump controversies.
Don’t expect GOP leaders to publicly lend their voices to Hewitt’s cause-they are, after all, still struggling to simply rebuke Trump when he says something even they admit is racist. “And that is just one of the many reasons why he will never be president”, Warren says.
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And while Trump’s speech was an olive branch to the right, he also beckoned to supporters from across the aisle. “We’re going to lead the Republican party to victory this fall”.
