From the GOP Congressional leaders’ decision to back off threats to shut down the government, to a failure to stop President Obama’s bevvy of executive orders, the Republican establishment has been playing it safe for a very long time.
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Republican and Democratic candidates in the last nine presidential elections – since Ronald Reagan in 1980 – have released tax returns at least for the previous year, according to PolitiFact. Instead, he had insulted Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army officer who died while trying to protect his men in Iraq.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., warned that the “campaign is not over” and described Trump as still being in transition from the bulldog who beat 16 rivals in the GOP primary to a general election candidate who communicates differently to a wider electorate what he wants to do differently than Clinton. The bulk of their income _ more than $6 million came from speaking fees for appearances made largely before Hillary Clinton launched her campaign in April 2015.
Fifty prominent Republican national security and global relations experts of past Republican administrations have denounced Trump arguing that the possibility of Trump’s finger being near the nuclear button is a clear and present danger to the safety and security of not only our own country, but the rest of the world as well.
But Trump issued serious warnings. The businessman cited on-going audits as the reason he is not releasing his records. (Never mind that he had been talking about what could be done after Election Day.) The N.R.A. promptly tweeted its support, which may have helped to quiet the response from some elected Republicans.
“The door is closing fast”, said Michigan Democratic strategist Amy Chapman, President Barack Obama’s senior Michigan adviser in his 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
“I think the one thing the Clintons learned … is that budget deficits hinder growth, and that’s what President Clinton did in his second term, is cut the deficit and that drove the growth”. It’s a part of the country where he has said he can compete with Democrat Hillary Clinton. Hate, though, is precisely what he has worked to evoke in his supporters. He added, “If I’m ISIS, I call her up and I give her the most-valuable-player award”. In that context, the callout to Second Amendment people was nearly an unnecessary Trumpian embellishment. But the Republican voters have become more and more dissatisfied with that status quo. The Republican National Committee now has about 650 people working in the state, including almost 50 staffers.
Trump famously had no idea what makes up the “nuclear triad” (bombers, missiles and subs), doesn’t seem to have a clue about arms control treaties and is very vague on nuclear nonproliferation, while suggesting that Japan and South Korea pursue obtaining their own nuclear weapons.
The coordinated campaign between the Clinton organization, the state party and the down-ballot candidates means that Democrats now have 21 offices and 2,000 volunteers and staffers across North Carolina, according to party officials.
“These are the most dishonest people”, Trump said. But he won’t vote for Clinton; he told the Wall Street Journal that he might “write in a name”. I’m not thinking about (it as) a Republican, I’m thinking about (it as) a United States citizen.
“The newspaper is going to hell”, he said, according to CNN Money. How come you sort of relate to these people? But he has also stated that he and others who signed the letter have deep concerns about Clinton, and that he may not vote for anyone for President.
What Susan Collins did wasn’t easy for her. But I’m good at war.
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“Let me just tell you, I looked over Pennsylvania”. Signs were popping up across the political landscape that Trump’s year-plus flirtation with presidential politics was in danger of not advancing much further.
