Mirroring the language Ryan used about supporting Trump before his eventual endorsement, Trump told the newspaper he was “not quite there yet” in endorsing Ryan, the highest ranking elected Republican, in next Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary.
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Clinton herself asked Whitman for her support, the businesswoman told the Times, which was the first to report the endorsement. We need very strong leadership.
“He just seems willfully destructive and willfully sort of sadistic about other Republicans”, said Rick Wilson, a Florida-based GOP consultant who has spoken out against Trump for more than a year. “We are a party where the grassroots Republican primary voter selects the nominee”.
“But I never heard of somebody complaining about being cheated before the game was over, or before the scored was even tallied”, he said said.
Republicans now say Trump’s obstinacy in addressing perhaps the gravest crisis of his campaign may trigger drastic defections within the party, and Republican lawmakers and strategists have begun to entertain abandoning him en masse.
In an interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group on Tuesday Trump did not even spare President Obama.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is still ahead of Trump, however, raising almost $90 million between her campaign and joint fundraising committees in July, according to Politico.
In doing so, he echoed the House Speaker’s comments of nearly three months earlier, when the Wisconsin congressman was initially reluctant to embrace Mr Trump as his party’s standard bearer.
In recent days, Trump has criticized Muslims, babies, firefighters and the military, prompting his wincing Republican backers to issue awkward denunciations. The speaker defended his stance on the feud during the interview.
Kinzinger slammed Trump for not saying he honored the Khan family and instead took it as “an affront to him”. “If anyone has earned the right to say whatever they want right, it is Gold Star Families”.
The campaign said Wednesday that Mr. Trump’s overall contributions to the campaign now total more than $56 million.
Khan was killed by a vehicle bomb while serving in Iraq in 2004.
His ongoing war of words with Khizr and Ghazala Khan – the parents of Capt Humayun Khan – has intensified rifts within the Republican Party.
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Trump also declined to endorse Sen.
