Trump continues his knack for grabbing headlines, even during last week’s wall-to-wall coverage of the Democratic convention. Obama, a Democrat, said at a White House news conference with Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong.
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Trump, a former reality TV star, has troubled many in the Republican establishment with his off-the-cuff, often insulting style, and controversial policies including the proposed ban on Muslims and his plan to build a wall along the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants.
Whitman’s endorsement is the latest from a string of business leaders who have moved to back Clinton in recent days, including other high-profile Republicans.
Khan was killed by a auto bomb while serving in Iraq in 2004. In doing so, he echoed the House speaker’s comments of nearly three months earlier, when the Wisconsin congressman was initially reluctant to embrace Trump as his party’s standard bearer.
He adds that “the campaign is in very good shape” and blames rival Hillary Clinton for suggesting otherwise.
A national spokeswoman for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday said President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “probably” caused the death of U.S. Army Capt. Humayum Khan. Trump then fueled the fire by questioning why Mrs. Khan did not speak – she has said she would have been too emotional – and complaining on Twitter about being “viciously attacked”. Clinton was a senator representing NY.
Hanna’s retirement gives him the leeway to risk upsetting colleagues and voters.
Karl said the Republican Party could not force Trump out of the race now that he’s their nominee, but he might solve their problem by dropping out.
Citing Trump’s attacks on the Khans, Hanna called him “deeply flawed in endless ways”, “unrepentant” and “self-involved”.
She chaired the finance team of Chris Christie’s failed presidential run before he dropped out and devoted himself to Mr Trump. Still, top Republican lawmakers have not withdrawn their support for Trump as the party’s presidential pick.
Trump’s son, Eric Trump, told CBS News on Tuesday that his father’s comments toward the Khans have been “blown hugely out of proportion”.
With the general election campaign now squarely underway, Republicans found themselves once again forced to answer questions about the latest boundary-defying pronouncement from Trump at a moment when most would rather be talking about Hillary Clinton’s record.
The poll released on Tuesday shows support for Clinton has edged up two percentage points from six points on Friday.
About 43 per cent of likely voters favour Clinton, 35 per cent favour Trump, and 9 per cent picked “Other”, according to the July 28-Aug 1 online poll of 1289 likely voters.
That kick reveals Clinton is in the throes of a post-convention surge, the coveted but expected burst of enthusiasm around a candidate after the nomination meeting wraps.
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A new ad supporting Hillary Clinton uses the words of Republican leaders and appointees to make the case that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit to lead the United States.
