Obama said Donald Trump does not have the judgment or temperament or understanding to be president and added that “there’s something phony” about this week’s CNN poll.
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Christie, one of Trump’s biggest supporters, said the loss of a child is “unfathomable” and the focus should exclusively be on the loss suffered by the parents of the slain soldier, Army Capt. Humayun Khan.
“While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”, McCain wrote in a lengthy letter.
A spokesman for Rep. Don Young, in response to a media inquiry, said while Young may not share the Khans’ political beliefs, he would never question the pain or sacrifice of a Gold Star family. On Monday, President Obama told a veterans group that Gold Star families “have made a sacrifice that most of us can’t even begin to imagine”.
“There’s no question that Donald Trump is making it very hard for House and Senate candidates who are running on the ballot in November”, said Brian Walsh, a GOP strategist and former spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Statements from vulnerable Republican senators and House members up for re-election denounced Trump’s tough language directed at the Khans, and honored them for their sacrifice for the nation’s security. She also urged Clinton to make an apology to Pat Smith, a speaker at the GOP convention, whose son was killed in Benghazi. Nor did he mention them at a Monday night rally in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Moulton slammed Trump on the same morning that President Barack Obama, in a White House news conference, responded to the same remarks by Trump by saying the Republican nominee is “unfit to serve as president” and “woefully unprepared to do this job”. “I will do everything I can to rid this country of the ugly stain of racism”, Sanders said in a tweet on Friday evening.
As the crowd jeered the woman, Pence tried to quiet them down.
Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina said that “Capt. Khan is an American hero in every sense of the term, and the Khans deserve our sincerest gratitude”.
Trump spent the days after winning the Republican nomination criticizing a US district court judge’s Mexican heritage.
In that speech, Obama argued that Trump’s own convention “wasn’t particularly Republican – and it sure wasn’t conservative”.
Pence’s statement came after an afternoon of debate among his aides as to whether he should find a way to dissociate himself subtly from Trump’s comments, according to a person familiar with the internal campaign conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss them publicly. Murkowski hasn’t said whether she will vote for Trump, but she says she’s always voted for the Republican nominee in past elections. It’s not just the optics of picking a fight with a military family that has GOP officials eager for Trump to move on, but the timing of his attacks: Election Day is just three months away. Roy Blunt of Missouri. Aides say Trump often professes to understand the risks of fueling a controversy, but he can get drawn back.
“His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say”, Trump said.
Trump could and should learn a lesson from the example of McCain and others.
Cantor is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
In spite of those storms, Trump remains in a close race for the White House with Clinton.
Over the last fortnight, the Republican and Democratic National Conventions were held back-to-back.
Trump also said Ryan had sought his endorsement, a claim disputed by the speaker’s campaign.
Army captain Humayun Khan was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004. During the speech, Ghazala Khan stood quietly by his side.
During the interview Trump refused to entertain the challenge posed to him by Warren Buffet on revealing his tax returns, saying he does not know Warren Buffet and has never met him. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.
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Asked Monday on MSNBC if Trump should apologize, Ghazala Khan said, “I don’t want to hear anything from him and I don’t want to say anything to him”.
