“I didn’t actually hear the comments but I heard about these comments”, Ryan said.
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The controversy erupted on Tuesday afternoon when Trump said at a rally that Second Amendment defenders might be able to stop Clinton from appointing justices to the Supreme Court who could weaken gun rights. By saying that Clinton “essentially” wants to abolish the Second Amendment, he suggests that Clinton’s desired regulations would in aggregate strip Americans’ rights to gun ownership.
Two new OH presidential polls came out Tuesday, both showing Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump in the presidential race. Republican Senator Susan Collins said on Monday that that dispute led her to announce she would not vote for Trump.
“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have awesome spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, his response said. Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign surrogates have written the comment off as a bad joke or a poorly phrased appeal to the voting power of gun rights advocates in the upcoming election.
– Even among Democrats, 14 percent say they have an unfavorable opinion of Clinton. Then adds: “Although Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don’t know”.
Trump said: “Nobody in that room thought anything other than what you just said”. “You should never joke about something like that”.
That’s when Pierson offered a completely different interpretation of Trump’s comments.
The editors at The New York Daily News have joined every other person with a functioning brain in calling for Donald Trump to abandon his presidential campaign.
The Hillary Clinton campaign immediately released a statement saying “This is simple – what Trump is saying is risky”.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, a former GOP congressman who has had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Republican nominee, said that Trump has crossed a “bloody line”.
A person who is reckless with his words will also be reckless with his power.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is launching an effort to win over Republicans and independents.
“When Mr. Trump speaks, it’s not as artful as a lot of people might think”, he said on CNN Wednesday morning.
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This followed a Tuesday night editorial from the paper arguing one of the Republican nominee’s latest comments hinted at promoting violence against Hillary Clinton.
