Some Democrats took it as an incitement to violence.
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“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, Trump said, referring to appointments to the US Supreme Court.
In a Newsweek interview on Monday, Hillary Clinton excoriated the lobbying power of these very same Second Amendment people. Should Hillary get her way, that right would disappear (at least legally), and the government would be freed up to make any policy choice it wished – including a total ban. He also promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to the USA and blamed Clinton and President Obama for the loss of U.S.jobs to China and Mexico.
She advocates making more gun purchases – those at gun shows and on the Internet, for instance – subject to background checks through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, though that system is hardly foolproof. “People are grasping at straws”, Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist unaffiliated with Trump, told Reuters. The Super PAC, a political-action committee, backing him has said it will concentrate on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. But on Fox News, hosts and commentators directed their attention to the reaction of the rest of the media.
By Tuesday evening, Clinton’s campaign was fundraising off the firestorm, asking supporters by email to chip in $1 to “show that we don’t tolerate this kind of politics in America”.
A Marquette Law School survey released Wednesday found Mrs. Clinton has a 46 percent to 36 percent lead over Mr. Trump among registered voters, and has a 52 percent to 37 percent lead over him among likely voters. The Clinton backers largely include former officials, though some current Republican officeholders have said they won’t vote for Trump.
Some Republicans expressed unease with the comments, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, who told the AP it sounded “like just a joke gone bad”. “He does and says everything my mom and dad taught me never to say and do”. It also underscored the concern, voiced by many anxious Republicans, that he can not stay disciplined and avoid inflammatory remarks that imperil not only his White House prospects but the re-election chances of many Republican lawmakers.
But high-profile Republicans and rank-and-file voters appeared shaken on Wednesday after a string of Trump missteps, struggling with how to best reject Trump’s divisive candidacy.
Clinton went on to talk about her push for expanded background checks, as though the Heller decision was a natural segue.
The latest Trump controversy arose from an offhand quip at a rally. CNN did not report whether the questions were raised to Trump himself. “I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”.
No thinking person sans a political agenda could interpret this as a call to assassinate Clinton. Even more describe her as a strong leader than say that abut Trump.
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I didn’t know being told to mobilize and vote was this hilarious. “And there can be no other interpretation”. A West Virginia delegate said Clinton should be “should be tried for treason, murder, and crimes against the US Constitution.and then hung on the Mall in Washington, D.C”.
