Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is unqualified to serve as president and does not represent the ideals of the Republican Party, according a staff editorial in the Dallas Morning News published Tuesday. “What does it mean to be a Republican today?”.
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On Tuesday, the newspaper’s editorial board said it could not support the Republican nominee for president: “Trump is – or has been – at odds with almost every GOP ideal this newspaper holds dear”. “With Donald Trump as the party’s new standard-bearer, it’s impossible to say”, the editorial said.
“Donald Trump is no Republican and certainly no conservative”, the editorial read.
It slammed the Republican nominee’s stance on immigration and his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the country. They also criticized the real estate mogul’s economic policies, saying that “his protectionism would likely force the USA into trade wars, increase the deficit, and sink the US economy back into a recession”.
It’s not easy to offer a shorthand list of such tenets, since Trump flips from one side to the other, issue after issue, sometimes within a single news cycle.
In a desperate attempt to gather more ethnic (non-white) support for Donald Trump’s Presidential bid, a PAC called Volunteers of Indian-Americans for Trump 2016 has launched a door-to-door campaign in New Jersey’s Mercer and Monmouth counties, reported PTI.
I am dismayed that certain Republican leaders have not stepped up to the plate with courage to not only address Trump but his followers as well.
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In late July, another prominent Texas newspaper with a history of conservative political endorsements – the Houston Chronicle – also made headlines when it endorsed Clinton and labeled Trump a “danger to the Republican Party” in an op-ed.
