The move comes amid a whirlwind of post-convention controversies – including the GOP nominee’s feud with Muslim parents who lost their son in Iraq and his decision to hold back a primary endorsement for House Speaker Paul Ryan and others GOP lawmakers.
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Naqvi said he was pressing his registered Republican friends to do the same.
A knowledgeable Republican source told CNN that some of Trump’s campaign staff – even campaign manager Paul Manafort – “feel like they are wasting their time”, given Trump’s recent comments.
Stone wrote that Trump needs to stay on message and not fall into the traps the Democratic party sets for him. As the bad news cycles mounted and Trump’s Republican allies began openly expressing their dissatisfaction with the course on which their party’s presidential nominee was set, the Trump campaign began to reveal how unstable a compound it was.
In comments that threaten both the United States economy and the democratic process as a whole, Trump suggested that Americans should avoid the stock market and has repeatedly suggested that the November election will be “rigged”.
Trump “strongly encouraged me to endorse”, Pence said, awkwardly trying to bridge the gap on his own.
Trump criticised the mother of US Army Captain Humayun Khan for not speaking when she appeared alongside her husband at last week’s Democratic National Convention. Khizr and Ghazala Khan cited the sacrifice of their son, who was killed by a vehicle bomb, and criticized Trump’s proposal to combat terrorism by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States.
After months of Trump promising to adopt a more presidential tone, Republicans are beginning to lose hope of a pivot for the general election. Trump criticized Ghazala Khan for her silence, asking whether or not she was even allowed to speak. “I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign”.
Earlier this week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman went so far as to “urge all Republicans to reject Donald Trump this November” and to vote for Hillary Clinton instead.
“The candidate is in control of his campaign”, he told Fox News.
The Clinton campaign has $58 million cash-on-hand, the campaign said. “The campaign is focused and the campaign is moving forward in a positive way”.
“The media is blowing this out of proportion significantly”, said New Hampshire Rep. Stephen Stepanek.
Donald Trump boasts about the businesses he’s built and that he would be the “greatest jobs president that God ever created”. On Monday, he fired Ed Brookover, a senior adviser hired as a liaison between the campaign and the RNC.
Mr Obama also turned on Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan, who have endorsed the former reality show star.
“I think I’m going to to do great in OH, we’re going to do great in Pennsylvania, I think I’m going to do great in Florida and I think I’m going to do great in states that some people aren’t even thinking about”, Trump said, when asked about the nature of the coalition he hopes to build ahead of the general election.
There have been no indications from Trump that he plans to get out of the race.
Bennett called the notion of Trump leaving the race “crazy talk” and noted that the nominee, despite his foibles and missteps, remains in a very competitive race.
Trump’s ongoing dispute with the Khans has become a call to political action for Kevin Ahearn of Phoenix. Clinton raised about $90 million over the same period.
The slow-moving train wreck that is the Republican presidential ticket just keeps getting more and more freakish, as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to be on some unhinged campaign to see just how far he can shove his foot into his ginormous mouth.
Clinton has also led in every public opinion poll released since the Republican and Democratic conventions concluded.
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Privately, Trump points to his recent fundraising success, large rallies and decent polling against a seasoned candidate as evidence that his campaign is working well.
