But Trump slammed that strategy during a private conference call with supporters on Monday, Bloomberg reported, citing two unnamed sources who shared their notes from the call. Republican elected officials and strategists also worry the showdown will drive away Hispanic voters who will be critical in the party’s efforts to win the White House and hold its majority in the Senate.
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Kelly countered that such is not the case, and added that the woman who had been the face of the class action said she dropped out because she had been harassed by countersuits from Trump. “I’m building a wall”, Trump said in the Sunday interview.
A former rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Ohio Governor John Kasich, called on Trump to apologise to Curiel, who was born in IN to Mexican immigrant parents.
“His statements this week on the judge, that’s a new level”, he said. Should Republicans like Newt Gingrich publicly distance themselves from Donald Trump over his refusal to apologize for his comments about a federal judge who is presiding over a case where he is the defendant?
Republicans are warning their presumptive presidential nominee to lay off the Latino judge and make good on a promise to unite the fractured GOP.
Dawson works for the city of Elkhart and although many at the event share his feelings, Trump signs can still be found on front yards in Goshen. “The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings, rulings that people can’t even believe”, Trump told CNN.
Joe Scarborough, co-host of the show “Morning Joe” criticized Donald Trump for having a view of race similar to Nazi German’s Nuremberg, a blistering critique by one of Trump’s most sympathetic voices. “To suggest somebody is not capable of doing a job due to their ancestry is wrong and unacceptable”, said Portman.
“I don’t think it reflects well on the Republican Party, I don’t think it reflects well on us as a nation”.
On Sunday, Trump reinforced that idea. He’s been beset by accusations of racism in recent days because he has questioned whether Curiel’s ethnicity disqualifies him from handling the Trump University cases.
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“Each day Portman twists himself further and further into a tortuous pretzel as he stubbornly continues to back Trump’s campaign”, said campaign spokesman David Bergstein.
