Trump is also hoping to break through in Democratic-leaning states like Pennsylvania, which the Republicans haven’t carried in a presidential election since 1988.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., both have strongly condemned those comments, but Warren, D-Mass., argued that McConnell and Ryan are really no better than Trump on the issue of judges.
Trump said Clinton’s refusal to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” – favoured by Republicans to describe violent Islamist militants – made her unfit to be president.
Meanwhile, Clinton met US Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA to try to shore up support from the left wing of the Democratic Party. “They just want Donald to quit being so vulgar and obvious about it”, Warren says.
“The Republican Party has to come together, they have to get their act together”, he added, citing the potential for the next president to nominate multiple Supreme Court justices as the stakes in the race. Toward the end of his speech Sanders said that he looked forward to meeting with Hillary Clinton in the “near future to see how we can work together to defeat Donald Trump and to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1%”. Her office released excerpts in advance.
Billionaire John Catsimatidis, a former New York City mayoral candidate, told the Washington Post that Christie brought up Trump’s remarks during Wednesday’s lunch, saying: “People make mistakes, (then) they take it back”.
Warren’s ardent base of liberal supporters includes many who also backed Vermont Sen.
“He is overtly racist, sexist”, Rothfuss said of Trump.
Trump has vowed not to discuss the judge again, and stuck to that pledge Saturday, though he did criticize “politically correct” public officials who criticize some of the things he says. “He’s a Mitch McConnell kind of candidate”, Warren said in her prepared remarks.
“We’ve got to get behind him”, one man implored the crowd. He’s one of only four Democrats versus 26 Republicans.
The Pocahontas nickname refers to controversy over Warren claiming she is of Native American descent, despite the connection being distant and hard to prove.
The entire media – and most of the GOP – have spent 10 months telling us that Mexicans in the United States are going to HATE Trump for saying he’ll build a wall.
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“Seeing this is breaking my heart for the party”, Romney said, his voice quavering with emotion as the audience of several hundred business and other leaders who helped fund his 2012 run for president broke into sustained applause.
