Trump, meanwhile, is becoming even more vehement in his denunciations of a political system that’s built around the presumption of a civil transition from one officeholder to another.
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The New York Times reported that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is actively courting Republicans-she had reached out to Whitman a month prior to her announcement this week.
Pence, after announcing his support for House Speaker Paul Ryan yesterday, even as Trump denied Ryan his own, didn’t break with his running mate when asked about McCain and Ayotte.
Facing sinking poll numbers and campaign morale, Trump has questioned the integrity of the nation’s election system in recent days. “And sometimes it’s… I mean, I can understand where he’s coming from, but I don’t always agree with it”, he said.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman said on Wednesday he would work to get Hillary Clinton elected president of the United States because he finds recent comments by Donald Trump “shockingly unacceptable”.
“I will do it [a] million times, I will do it louder, I will do it forcefully”, Khan told Kelly McEvers, host of NPR’s All Things Considered. “Because I feel I have to, in order to defend Republicans, and our principles, so that people don’t make the mistake of thinking we think like that”.
Mr Pence said: “He strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan in next Tuesday’s primary”.
Influential Republican allies of Donald Trump are trying to arrange an “intervention” – what amounts to a strategic review – with the GOP presidential nominee in a bid to convince the candidate to change up his approach after a rocky few days, Fox News has learned. John McCain, the past two GOP presidential nominees. Kelly Ayotte as well as Ryan.
The latest, and some believe most outrageous, case in point: Trump’s repeated criticism of a bereaved military family, who also spoke at the convention in Philadelphia.
The businessman directed his own criticism at Clinton on Thursday, while briefly addressing the tension with Ryan.
“I’m telling you, November 8th, we’d better be careful because that election is going to be rigged”, Trump told the Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity on Monday.
Ryan loyalists were not surprised by Trump’s maneuver.
Kurtz called Trump “an unstable wannabe strongman” and quoted President Abraham Lincoln in resigning, saying, “A house divided against itself can not stand”. Trump’s preemptive declarations, in turn, could muddy the waters for Democrat Hillary Clinton, if she wins.
For the good of the country, as well as for the good of the GOP, Republican powers must give Trump a chance to resign as their candidate.
RNC Chairman Reince Preibus has regular phone calls with Manafort and Trump, but at this point, phone calls seem inadequate to the task of righting this campaign. Trump has described the money as a ransom payment for four Americans detained in Iran, although the $400 million payment – plus $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later – is a separate issue from the Iran nuclear deal that Clinton initiated. And after law enforcement and local volunteers barred a Washington Post reporter from entering a rally in Wisconsin, Pence said on conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt’s radio show the campaign would evaluate its policy and added that events would be “available to the media, whether they’re fair or unfair”.
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It’s unclear what footage Trump was referring to.
