Trump’s attacks on the Gold Star Khan family have been devastating for his campaign as 69% of those polled said that Trump’s comments were out of bounds.
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“I think we’ve never been this united, and I just want to thank everybody for being here”. The RealClearPolitics average of recent national polls put her 4.5 percentage points ahead of Trump, at 46.5 percent to 42 percent.
The property billionaire has been heavily under fire over a war of words he has been waging with the bereaved parents of a US Muslim soldier killed in Iraq. In the midst of the uproar over his continued criticism of the Khan family, Trump infuriated Priebus and other party leaders by refusing to endorse GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election.
Clinton has enjoyed a bounce following her convention last week, and the Fox News survey shows one of the largest leads in general election polls yet.
Also on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT), Representative Richard Hanna of NY became the first Republican in Congress to endorse Clinton, although several other Republicans in Congress have said they will not support Trump.
Top Jeb Bush advisor Sally Bradshaw said she is leaving the Republican Party to become an independent.
The Democrat presidential nominee has some of the highest unfavorable ratings of any presidential candidate in modern history.
Trump has been widely criticized, including by many Republicans, for denouncing the Khans, who are Muslim-Americans. “Donald Trump makes his suits in Mexico, not OH, where he could; his furniture in Turkey, not Pennsylvania, where he could; his picture frames in India, not Wisconsin, where he could”. “That would be bad”, he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida.
Donald Trump said Wednesday that Hillary Clinton “should get an award” from jihadist militants because she is “the founder of ISIS”. Trump also refused to endorse Arizona Sen.
His first swipe was at Khan’s wife, Ghazala, for standing silently at her husband’s side during the speech (perhaps, Trump implied, she was forbidden from speaking as a woman?). “And he’s only 5 or 6 points behind”, Bennett said.
“The campaign’s focused and the campaign is moving forward in a positive way”, Manafort told Fox. He also had a meeting with McCain and publicly endorsed Ryan. Ryan has backed Trump despite deep differences on policy and temperament, and has encouraged other Republicans to unite behind the party’s nominee. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks at a rally at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. Clinton has chosen Kaine to be her running mate.
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While Whitman said she did not agree with Clinton on “very many issues”, she said the former secretary “would be a much better president than Donald Trump”.
