Hillary Clinton continued to attack Donald Trump over comments the Republican candidate made suggesting that his supporters should turn to violence to protect the Second Amendment.
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“FYI – US-backed militias retook ISIS’s stronghold in Libya today thanks to Obama-authorised air strikes”, he said in a tweet. While the state has not backed a Democrat for president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Trump himself acknowledged Thursday he is “having a tremendous problem in Utah”. “I mean I call them co-founders”, said Trump, who says he opposed the Iraq war.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which has endorsed Clinton, said Trump was encouraging gun violence “based on conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton”.
The NRA has spent almost $6 million this year on advertising supporting Trump, focusing its latest efforts on the swing states of Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where Trump and running mate Mike Pence have been campaigning heavily.
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Susan Collins of ME this week, have disavowed Trump but said they can not back Clinton, either.
The report said that Trump denies that the phone call ever happened. In an interview with CNBC, he said, “At the end, it’s either going to work, or I’m going to, you know, I’m going to have a very, very nice, long vacation”.
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Ms Clinton today said that Trump’s remarks showed that he did not have the qualities of a president.
Another attention-seeker dominated cable news Wednesday afternoon when he used suction cups to scale Manhattan’s Trump Tower, the Republican nominee’s home and campaign headquarters, before police captured him through an open window. Trump has criticised Clinton’s stamina in recent weeks.
Clinton, making her first appearance in Iowa since the caucuses six months ago, took the opportunity to make a direct appeal for voters turned off by Trump, building on her new initiative, launched Wednesday morning, aimed at Republican and Independent voters that her campaign is calling “Together For America”.
Along with the taxes, her campaign released a web video featuring Republican leaders saying that Trump should make his filings public.
Six GOP senators and a number of House Republicans have disowned him too.
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The Trump campaign seized on the latest emails to blast Clinton as “corrupt”, with critics saying the messages showed the foundation sought improper preferential treatment from the department. Trump’s campaign said the comment was misinterpreted and that he was encouraging gun activists to use their political power.
