She said she stands by her former comments, in which she compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini.
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In an email, a campaign spokeswoman said Trump was simply referring to video aired on television this week, although no such footage of payment to Iranians was shown.
CEO Meg Whitman has abandoned her Republican roots to campaign against Donald Trump in the USA presidential election. He says Clinton will focus on bringing jobs to urban areas and investing in infrastructure.
Donald Trump received a wave of discouraging polling news Thursday as an extraordinarily damaging week neared its conclusion.
The National Urban League is a leading advocacy organization for African-Americans.
One Colorado Republican has taken his discomfort with his party’s presidential nominee to the airwaves.
Ryan brushed off Trump’s stance, telling a radio interviewer in Green Bay, Wis., that the only endorsement he cares about is from voters in his congressional district. “You know, we are organized, we are moving forward, and the Clinton machine may not like it, but we are prepared for the fight”. In this regard, voters are having conversations about the election that reflect what they say they are seeing from the campaign and news coverage of the election.
Taking all of these polls into account, FiveThirtyEight’s polls-only forecast of presidential-election probabilities now rates Clinton’s odds of victory at 73 percent; it was actually below 50 percent just after the Republicanconvention.
And House Republican Adam Kinzinger of IL, a US Air Force veteran, told CNN he woke up Wednesday realizing that Trump has “crossed so many red lines” that he can no longer support the nominee, “no matter what the political cost to me”.
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Donald Trump, and the new WBUR/MassINC poll of New Hampshire brings that home – nearly literally.
If the election were just Clinton and Trump, 51 percent said they would vote for the Democratic nominee.
“This controversy with the Khan family has hurt him more than anything since he clinched the nomination”, Madonna said.
Donald Trump’s campaign chairman is playing down a rift between the Republican nominee and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Paul Manafort says in an interview with Fox News Channel that “the candidate is in control of his campaign”. “We’ve sort of had a rule of not getting involved in primaries because it’s usually not a good situation for the presidential candidate”.
One of the people said Trump privately blames his own staff for failing to quiet the backlash from his own party after he criticized an American Muslim family whose son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed in Iraq.
Other Republican stalwarts, while stopping short of endorsing Clinton, are shunning Trump or the party itself.
While “dump Trump” calls have continued since the 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney trashed the billionaire’s candidacy early this year, it is unclear whether the trickle of defections to Clinton’s camp will become a flood after a series of bad stumbles by Trump.
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The poll also showed that Democrat Katie McGinty has a one-point-lead over Republican Senator Pat Toomey 39%-38% among likely voters. Trump also refused to endorse Arizona Sen. In the midst of the uproar over his criticism of the Khan family, Trump infuriated Priebus and other party leaders by refusing to endorse Ryan’s re-election ahead of a primary contest Tuesday. Khizr Khan, with his wife, Ghazala, standing by his side, cited the sacrifice of their son, who was killed by a auto bomb in 2004, and criticised Trump’s proposal to combat terrorism by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States.
