He suffers from sinking poll numbers, including a Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday that shows him trailing Clinton in crucial battleground states OH and Pennsylvania, and virtually tied in Florida.
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An additional survey of 1,162 registered voters was also conducted. That is 9 points higher than his support for the presidency in the latest Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll.
Trump previously came under fire from within his party for belatedly endorsing fellow Republicans in re-election races and a prolonged clash with the parents of fallen Muslim American army captain Humayun Khan.
“It wasn’t that he was inciting violence, it was that the media were taking his words and turning them into something that weren’t really there”, said another panelist and Trump backer Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Indeed, virulent anti-Clinton sentiment has increasingly characterized the Trump campaign.
Many “Stop Trump” efforts have been vocal protestations at best – and many Republicans running for office know they need Trump’s supporters to get through this election.
Trump defended his remarks to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, saying that he was attempting to energize voters to prevent Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices who might look unfavorably upon the Second Amendment. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”, he continued. It is the “sane” and “reasonable” Republicans who deserve the shame – the ones who stood silently by, or worse, while Donald Trump gave away their party’s sacred inheritance. “I just don’t believe that’s possible”, Sessions said. “It feels like he’s not even trying to be a decent person who we should look up to”.
But Trump’s campaign denied that he was suggesting violence, instead saying the real estate mogul was referencing the power gun rights advocates have at the voting booth.
Trump has dismissed the defections and criticism by Republicans as an unsurprising reaction of the so-called Washington elite to his drive to change the status quo. “Donald Trump is urging people around this country to act consistent with their convictions in the course of this election”.
“What he meant by that was, you have the power to vote against her”, Giuliani said. “Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president, will be getting my vote, not reluctantly, but with a strong conviction she will be a good president”. Some 53 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Clinton, who has been accused of mishandling her emails as secretary of state, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. It’s time for some reporters, especially those that often interview Donald Trump, to get a spine.
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On Tuesday, Trump shocked many media commentators when he seemed to suggest that people with guns should do something about Clinton and judges she would choose for the Supreme Court.
