President Obama said Tuesday that Republican rebukes of Donald Trump’s controversial comments – the latest having to do with his attacks on the parents of a slain American soldier – “ring hollow” with party leaders unwilling to un-endorse their unpopular presidential nominee.
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The president said his opposition to Trump is about more than policy differences.
Gingrich, who had been on Trump’s shortlist for vice president, was among those urging Trump to recalibrate his campaign and offering harsh words for the Republican standard bearer.
Paul Nehlen is using Donald Trump’s refusal to endorse Paul D. Ryan as a springboard in his primary battle against the House speaker.
“Yet, facing outcry on the left and right, Mr. Trump has insisted to associates that he has been treated unfairly by Mr. Khan, the news media and some Republicans, said people familiar with the campaign’s deliberations who insisted on anonymity to discuss them”. “You would think we’d ought to be focusing on Hillary Clinton and all of her deficiencies”, Ryan said.
President Barack Obama used a joint press conference with the prime minister of Singapore and his bully pulpit at the White House today to discredit the man who has promised to take his place.
His father, Khizr Khan, denounced Trump during the Democratic National Convention for his proposal to ban Muslims from the U.S. and questioned whether Trump had read the U.S. Constitution.
“We need more candidates like Khizr Khan, not Donald Trump, to run for office in America”.
French President Francois Hollande joined the chorus of criticism on Tuesday, saying that Mr Trump made people “feel nauseous”.
“There has to come a point at which you say: “Enough”, Mr Obama said.
President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphi.
“I have said that I will support the nominee of the party, and let me just say to you that is the last time“, McCain said while speaking to reporters in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler. “Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!”
McCain’s response was a lengthy denunciation in which he said the GOP nomination does not confer on Trump “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”.
“The real problem here are the radical Islamic terrorists who killed him, and the efforts of these radicals to enter our country to do us further harm”. Trump has responded by insisting he had made sacrifices and questioning why Ghazala Khan did not speak on stage, which she later said was because she was too bereaved. And with the general election campaign now squarely underway, the firestorm over Trump’s attacks on the Khan family is likely just a taste of trials to come as Republicans negotiate how closely to align with their volatile nominee.
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Early voting begins in Arizona this week, as Mr McCain faces off against two Republican opponents, former state senator Kelli Ward and Tea Party conservative Clair Van Steenwyk. “But I will do this”, Ryan said.
