Those included Trump’s refusal to endorse GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election and his continued criticism of the family of a slain USA soldier.
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Donald Trump says he wants to “Make America Great Again”, but Rep. Richard Hanna says his party’s presidential pick is “narcissistic” and “unfit” to lead.
On Monday, Sally Bradshaw, a top adviser to Jeb Bush, said that Mr Trump’s candidacy had convinced her to leave the Republican Party.
Speaking to the New York Times yesterday, Whitman, who ran for governor of California as a Republican in 2010, declared her backing for Hilary Clinton and branded Trump a “dishonest demagogue”.
The Silicon Valley billionaire’s endorsement of the Democratic nominee comes as a blow to the Trump campaign as it is embroiled in multiple controversies and struggles to retain support within the GOP. Trump insisted he too had made sacrifices and questioned why Ghazala Khan did not speak on stage, which she later said was because she was too bereaved.
One Republican, Reagan administration official Doug Elmets, went so far as to announce his support for Hillary Clinton at last week’s Democratic National Convention, where he told delegates: “I knew Ronald Reagan, I worked for Ronald Reagan”.
Clinton raised $63 million in July for her campaign, as well as $26 million for the Democratic National Committee and state parties, bringing her total monthly fundraising to about $90 million. “You would think we should be focusing on Hillary Clinton and all of her deficiencies”.
At the end of her statement Whitman said other Republicans ought to do the same: “I urge all Republicans to reject Donald Trump this November”. He did win the ratings race and almost 2 million more people tuned in to watch his speech than Secretary Clinton’s.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine says “a profound distance” has grown between law enforcement and communities in many parts of America, and that distance is risky.
Hanna, who was rated as one of the least conservative Republican members of the House in National Journal’s 2013 assessment, represents the 22 Congressional District in central NY, which stretches from Lake Ontario to New York’s border with Pennsylvania.
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A new Arizona-based poll has Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump by 3 percent, however that lead disappears when the margin of error is factored in.
