McCain is a locked in a three-way race ahead of an August 30 primary in Arizona.
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“We are going to go by the law, which is that, in both tradition and the law, that if somebody is the nominee… they need to get a security briefing so that if they were to win, they are not starting from scratch in terms of being prepared”, Obama said.
“I’m just not there yet”, Trump said in the interview. “I’m not quite there yet”. Indeed, just two weeks after a Republican National Convention that tried to focus on party unity, the Trump-driven rifts inside the GOP appear to be intensifying. “He does support Paul Ryan”. Trump’s phrasing – “I’m not quite there yet” – echoes comments Ryan made to CNN’s Jake Tapper in May when he said he wasn’t yet ready to back his party’s standard-bearer.
Pence says that he spoke with Trump Wednesday morning about his “support for Paul Ryan and our longtime friendship”. “And we are confident in a victory next week regardless”. “I’m not there right now”. The judicial code of ethics prevented Judge Gonzalo Curiel from responding to Trump, but the Khans have been able to reply showing grief and outrage making sure the story continues.
Trump’s latest comments come on the heels of his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.
During the GOP primary, Trump was critical of McCain and questioned his status as a war hero.
“Neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trump’s endorsement”, said Zack Roday, Ryan’s campaign spokesman. In a statement, Nehlen wrote a point-by-point defense of Trump’s response to the Khans and stance on terrorism.
He’s also refusing to back House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. “I think they knew what they were doing when they asked that family to speak at the convention”.
He urged Trump supporters to volunteer to help at the polls to make sure the election is conducted fairly.
Describing his feelings about Trump as unprecedented, Obama recalled disagreements with previous GOP presidential nominees Senator John McCain and Mitt Romney.
On Tuesday Obama questioned why leading Republicans have not withdrawn their support for their presidential nominee. ” … There have been Republican presidents with whom I disagreed with, but I didn’t have a doubt that they could function as president”.
Ryan, the highest ranking elected Republican, endorsed Trump for president in June.
Families who lose an immediate relative in a United States military action are called Gold Star families.
“When you question a mother’s pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us”, the letter read. “Sometimes people forget that”.
Mr Obama also took to task Republican leaders who have frequently clashed with Mr Trump over this statements and policies about women, undocumented immigrants and Muslims.
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“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life”, she said.
