Ryan and McConnell also declined to directly criticize Trump for his attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a fallen Muslim American soldier who blasted Trump for his proposed Muslim immigration ban.
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“Ms. Whitman also said she “absolutely” stood by her comments at a private gathering of Republican donors this year comparing Mr. Trump to Hitler and Mussolini, explaining that dictators often come to office through democratic means”.
Clinton’s policy, he said, “crippled Libya and Syria and Iraq”. In doing so, he echoed the House speaker’s comments of nearly three months earlier, when the Wisconsin congressman was initially reluctant to embrace Trump as his party’s standard bearer.
The break by Representative Richard Hanna of NY followed days of uproar over Trump’s criticism of the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army officer killed in the Iraq war, which has fueled a fresh round of Republican rebukes of the NY businessman.
During the Democratic National Convention last month, it was noted that while Sanders called for unity within the party, many of his supporters openly expressed opposition to Clinton being made the nominee.
“For me, it is not enough to simply denounce his comments: He is unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”, Hanna wrote in a letter posted on syracuse.com, the website of the Post-Standard newspaper in NY. “He is unrepentant in all things”.
When permanent DNC chair Rep. Marcia Fudge gave remarks, the jeering of Clinton and vice presidential running mate Tim Kaine was so intense that she interrupted her own remarks with a couple declarations of “excuse me” to attendees.
Dent added that he was not shocked by Hanna’s break with the party, although he said he himself has no plans to support Clinton.
Ryan and Republican Senate Majority Leader McConnell have offered support to the Khans, but no Republican leaders have withdrawn their support for Trump as the party’s presidential pick. He’s not seeking re-election.
The Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign reported raising almost $90 million in the month of July, marking her biggest monthly haul yet.
Calling US presidential hopeful Donald Trump a “national embarrassment”, a Republican lawmaker from the billionaire’s home state on Tuesday said that he would vote for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the November general elections.
For Donald Trump, it’s become a familiar pattern.
Trump spent the days after winning the Republican nomination criticizing a USA district court judge’s Mexican heritage.
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Now, he’s sparring with an American Muslim family whose son was killed in Iraq. It’s not just the optics of picking a fight with a military family that has GOP officials eager for Trump to move on, but the timing of his attacks: Election Day is three months away.
