According to the Bloomberg survey, Clinton benefits from consolidated Democratic support around her candidacy and backers who are more interested in electing her than in simply stopping her opponent. “I mean, give me a break”.
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There is clearly an appetite for rhetoric like Trump’s, but his never-ending stream of political gaffes makes it increasingly hard for him to win majority support in November.
Trump himself seemed unaware of the controversy in an interview shortly after the rally, but he repeated that his point was that Second Amendment advocates are a powerful lobby.
A comment by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Tuesday is going viral, but not in a good way.
The opening speaker, former New York Governor Rudy Giuliani, said Trump didn’t mean anything by it.
Trump’s campaign said the comment was misinterpreted and that he was encouraging gun activists to use their political power.
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Almost one-fifth of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, reflecting the turmoil his candidacy has sown within his party.
“Obviously you’re saying that there’s a strong political movement within the Second Amendendment and if people mobilize and vote, they can stop Hillary from having this impact on the court, but that’s not how the media’s spinning it”, Fox News host Sean Hannity told Trump Tuesday. Cory Booker’s visit to the state this weekend, the state party’s efforts to open satellite offices around the state and to mobilize the 30 staffers she said they’ve hired in the past two months. “That’s what he was talking about”, he added.
But how much does the NRA-or other gun-rights supporters-actually like Trump? “Despicable”, Democratic congressman David Cicilline posted on Twitter along with footage of Trump’s remarks.
On the defensive once again, Donald Trump is blaming faulty interpretations and media bias for an uproar over his comments about the Second Amendment.
Herriott, an unaffiliated voter in Raleigh, North Carolina, was one of numerous citizens across the country asked today what they thought Trump was saying at a campaign rally the day before.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein also weighed in, calling for Trump to be disarmed.
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“It suggests either a very bad-taste reference to political assassination and an attempt at humor, or an incredible insensitivity”, he told CNN. “The support he has from Republicans nearly seems obligatory rather than voluntary”.
