On Monday, 50 prominent Republican national security officials, including a former Central Intelligence Agency director, called Trump unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history”. “Let me tell you something: Donald Trump, the Republican Party, all of you…”
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Do Republicans want to perpetuate Obamacare, which hurts so many more than it helps? John McCain, declared that they would not support the Manhattan billionaire should he offically become the nominee – and things have picked up steam since. He drew heavy criticism earlier this week after he suggested gun rights activists could take action against Clinton, a statement he later said was aimed at rallying votes against her.
“There are Republicans up and down the ticket at congressional, state, and local levels that need help and who uphold the values of economic and individual liberty on which the Republican Party prides itself”, the chapter’s leaders reassure Trump skeptics, pledging that “the Notre Dame College Republicans will be doing everything in our power to help Senate candidate Todd Young, Gubernatorial Candidate Eric Holcomb, and Congressional Candidate Jackie Walorski as they seek office here in IN to advance those principles”.
Many Republicans who oppose Trump have sounded this alarm for months, warning that his presence at the top of the ticket would jeopardize down-ballot candidates.
Yet on Thursday, Trump was reduced to citing a poll that actually showed him a few points behind Clinton and arguing the race between them was close. (Never mind that he had been talking about what could be done after Election Day.) The N.R.A. promptly tweeted its support, which may have helped to quiet the response from some elected Republicans.
NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks said practically the same thing in July.
The source was referring to other controversies that have emerged since last month’s GOP convention, including Trump’s feud with a Gold Star family and comments that he wasn’t prepared to back Ryan ahead of his primary race.
Gov. Rick Snyder and three of Michigan’s nine Republican U.S. House members – Justin Amash, Fred Upton and Bill Huizenga – aren’t endorsing Trump. He’s the national political reporter with The Washington Post.
Huizenga, of Holland, is withholding an endorsement but could still vote for Trump. The Republican Club at Trump’s alma mater told The Tab it had not yet made a formal endorsement, though the group’s executive director told ABC News that “everybody hates Trump”. He added, “If I’m ISIS, I call her up and I give her the most-valuable-player award”. “We don’t need over-the-top political rhetoric to point out the fact that this administration has failed when it comes to its dealings on the global level”.
Priebus said today in Erie that’s not true, the party is not moving away from Trump, he’s sticking with the nominee.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a chart as he speaks to the National Association of Home Builders, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Think Citizen’s United and deregulation of Wall Street.) Trump’s economic speech advocates more of the same; tax breaks for the wealthy and trickle-down economics.
“It’s the only way they can beat me”. “She lied when she said she only had one device”. “Hillary Clinton has done that for decades”.
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Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign is responding to reports that a State Department aide may have crossed the line by working for the Clinton Foundation. The former USA senator and first lady’s lead over Trump has widened in national polls, alarming Republicans and buoying Democrats in a state where a Republican has not won the presidential race in 28 years. A message seeking comment was left with Bergman’s campaign manager. Apparently the still firm support from the GOP leadership after the disgusting “second amendment remedy” remark prompted Krugman to weigh in on the Republicans who “don’t care about shunning racism, preserving democracy and freedom of religion, or…avoiding nuclear war” because they still stand behind Trump.
