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”.
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At last week’s Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan, a Muslim whose son was killed serving in the USA military in Iraq, criticized Mr Trump’s plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes “you want to retch”, French leader Francois Hollande said Tuesday, as he added his voice to a barrage of scathing criticism of the White House hopeful. “And I think I’ve got the better argument”.
Given the president’s unpopularity with Republicans, some suggested, Obama’s words were as likely to entrench Republican opposition against his party as to prompt a sudden stampede in its direction.
President Barack Obama dove into the issue when asked Tuesday about Donald Trump’s multi-day spat with family members of a deceased soldier after they condemned his statements about Muslims. “We need change now”.
The Democratic president noted that leading Republicans, including Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, and one-time Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a United States senator from Arizona, had criticized Trump for his remarks, but have stood by their endorsements of him.
“This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe”, Obama said. Yesterday, Obama said Trump didn’t ‘appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues, in Europe, in the Middle East.’ Instead, Trump says, Obama should look at his own record before lashing out.
“There has to come a point at which you say: “Enough”, Mr Obama said.
Trump has faced an avalanche of criticism from both the left and right for his attacks on the Gold Star family. Sen.
“Months ago I publicly said I could never support Trump”.
Lashing at Hillary Clinton at a rally in Pennsylvania, the republican nominee said that his Democratic rival is “the devil”.
He gave a thumbs up and pulled a little “yeah, that’ll do” expression as they posed for photos before a dinner at the White House with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife, Mrs. Lee Hsien Loong. But there have been Republican Presidents with whom I disagreed with, but I didn’t have a doubt that they could function as President.
With the general election campaign now squarely underway, Republicans found themselves once again forced to answer questions about the latest boundary-defying pronouncement from Trump at a moment when most would rather be talking about Hillary Clinton’s record.
Dale Brown, a maintenance supervisor from Grove City, Ohio, whose son is in the Navy, said Democrats were blowing Trump’s comments out of proportion and had “politicized this by asking that family to speak”.
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Hanna is retiring from the House and is not seeking re-election, leaving him more leeway to risk upsetting colleagues and voters over his break with Trump. Obama said this opinion of Trump is shared by prominent Republicans.
