House Speaker Paul Ryan called Trump’s remarks about the judge “the textbook definition of a racist comment”.
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Donald Trump has questioned the impartiality of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel [“Trump criticizes judge”, News, June 4].
But conference organiser Ralph Reed was adamant in his support for Trump, saying the New Yorker has energised the evangelical vote in a way that past Republican presidential nominees failed to do.
The Trump finance machine kickoff took place at New York City’s Four Seasons Hotel amid growing concerns about the Republican presidential candidate’s lack of a campaign infrastructure heading into a November 8 election battle against presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. He said he is particularly bothered by Trump’s personal attacks on Romney, but also sees red flags in Trump’s comments about the judge and seeming unwillingness to build out his campaign infrastructure.
But Trump’s brashness was on display, too, as he responded to a Bloomberg Politics article on Monday about a chaotic private phone call in which he ordered about three dozen of his most visible supporters to defend his attacks on Curiel by questioning the judge’s credibility and impugning reporters as racists.
Trump is right about one thing: He secured more than 13 million votes in the GOP primary, more than any Republican candidate this century, or in history.
Collins said people need to put the “distraction of this case behind us”.
His pitch on Trump was to stay positive, reminding anyone who would listen that Trump has great children, which says something about his character.
Hewitt said he disagreed with Republican senators like Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk who said they could not vote for their party’s nominee. He said Hillary Clinton wasn’t the answer and that Republicans were better off with Trump in the White House to sign the legislation they send him.
Borders went on to repeat comments that conservative media have reported in claiming that Trump is getting a raw deal in the Trump University case – such as the fact that law firm that brought the lawsuit against Trump is a Clinton donor.
“As the governor has expressed before, she is concerned by, and strongly disagrees with, some of Mr. Trump’s rhetoric and positions, including his comments about a federal judge”, Martinez spokesman Chris Sanchez said in a statement sent to the Journal. And it could have serious ripple-effects, leaving Republican down-ballot candidates, who are dependent on the national party to mount a well-funded turnout operation, in the lurch.
In our interview, Trump noted he has received more votes than Ronald Reagan.
“I don’t understand why we talk about Mexico as a race”.
“Well, I think a Muslim ban does promote radicalization”.
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As Donald Trump plummets in the polls, he is seeing an increasing number of Republicans speaking out against him. Lewandowski led Trump to victory in the primary with the motto “Let Trump be Trump”, and has long resisted suggestions that Trump needs to change his tone.
