“Right now, if you look at the way these races are coming together, I think that the Republican candidates by and large are significantly over-performing where you would expect them to be, given the state of the presidential race”, said Josh Holmes, a GOP consultant and former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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Yet those surveys point to one reason for Obama’s involvement – the president is more popular than either Trump, or Clinton. Rep. Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a competitive Colorado district, said he was “deeply offended when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of our fearless soldiers who were lost in that war”. He’ll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country.
“Months ago I publicly said I could never support Trump”.
The strong rebuke in the White House East Room came after Trump’s criticism of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier, along with comments that displayed apparent confusion related to the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
Obama said Trump’s criticism of a fallen Muslim-American soldier’s family is the latest evidence that the GOP presidential nominee isn’t ready to lead the country. “He keeps on proving it”. He said that while he disagreed with his Republican opponents in the 2008 and 2012 elections, he never thought they were unfit to do the job.
Meg Whitman, the president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a onetime California gubernatorial candidate, and prominent GOP fundraiser, told The New York Times she is supporting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “There has to come a point at which you say, ‘Enough.’ The alternative is that the entire Republican Party effectively endorses and validates the positions being articulated by Mr. Trump”.
“And I’m telling you, November 8th, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged”, he said.
However, none of the Republican lawmakers pulled back their support of Trump’s White House campaign. Rep. Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a competitive Colorado district, said he was “deeply offended when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of our courageous soldiers who were lost in that war”. They spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week. Still, in the end, Trump won the nomination and most of the party has united behind him. His good health, coupled with what the Times termed an “athletic build” from playing a handful of sports and the fact that he had just graduated from college in 1968 – the peak of US intervention in the war – seemingly made Trump a flawless candidate for the draft. “The fact that that hasn’t yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow”.
Donald Trump on Monday took his complaints about the “rigged” political system one step further.
Trump has also taken flak for appearing unaware that Russian forces had annexed Crimea in early 2014, saying on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that President Vladimir Putin is “not going into Ukraine”.
While Obama has always been critical of Trump, his blistering condemnation Tuesday was a notable escalation of his involvement in the presidential race.
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Over the last two weeks, courts have dealt setbacks to voter ID laws in several states.
