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On Fox, Trump’s gun comments become ‘cat nip’ for liberals

“I am not an enemy of Hillary Clinton, I consider her a friend”.

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“Yesterday, we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that crossed the line”, she said, citing “his casual inciting of violence”.

“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. Trump says he’ll bring back jobs, including in the coal industry, that once supported a solid middle-class lifestyle, and he’s blasting bipartisan trade agreements that many working-class voters blame for job losses.

The launch of Together for America is the Clinton campaign’s latest move to embrace Republicans uneasy with Trump.

Democrats are marginally more likely to support flipping their ticket upside-down than Republicans are theirs, even though Clinton is more solid in this poll among Democrats than Trump is among Republicans. Huh. The talking points reveal a candidate who is incapable of meeting the lowest thresholds for civilized human behavior. “I hope he clears it up very quickly”.

“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have incredible spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. You never joke about something like that”.

“We can protect our Second Amendment rights and take commonsense steps to prevent gun violence”, she said in April.

Trump got into trouble for seeming to encourage violent behavior at his rallies after several violent clashes between protesters and supporters during the primary season.

Almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos August 5-8 poll released on Wednesday want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House and another 10 percent “don’t know” whether the Republican nominee should or not. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”.

He joins a number of high-profile Republicans moving away from Trump amid a string of controversial statements. “When he suggested that “The Second Amendment People” can stop Hillary Clinton he crossed a line with risky potential”.

The paper dedicates its editorial to the row, referring to Mr Trump driving the campaign “further into the muck”. “I just don’t believe that’s possible”, Sessions said.

In his Fayetteville remarks, Trump praised the military and criticized the management of the Department of Veterans Affairs, though he didn’t specifically mention Fort Bragg.

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The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear firearms.

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at Crown Arena in Fayetteville N.C. on Aug. 9. REUTERS  Eric Thayer