“Donald Trump would not pay people who did work, painters and plumbers and glass installers and marble installers and architects”.
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“This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe”. Obama said at a news conference at the Pentagon. A swing-state poll taken before the party conventions and Trump’s feud with the Khan family showed the Republican down 8 points in Colorado. Instead, Pence asked his permission to endorse a candidate that Trump, for all intents and purposes seems to be working against. Obama pleaded with leading Republicans to rethink their endorsement. Paul Nehlen said on CNN’s “At This Hour”.
Trump’s White House bid slipped into unprecedented uncertainty with 97 days still to go to the election, with even senior members of his campaign team registering frustration with their boss after his political meltdown on Tuesday.
Pence said in a phone interview with Fox News Channel that Trump supported his decision to back Ryan as they work to unite the Republican Party. “And we are confident in a victory next week regardless”.
Dozens of high-profile GOP leaders who have previously said they would not vote for Trump, including the party’s 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
McCain is seeking a sixth term and faces three primary challengers – one of whom has suspended his campaign but will remain on the ballot.
One of those Republicans came around to Clinton’s side Tuesday.
Meg Whitman, a prominent Republican fundraiser, endorsed Clinton on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Obama pointed out that the federal government is not in charge of managing elections, a responsibility that falls to towns, cities and states that run the polling booths.
McCain has also criticized Trump in recent weeks for his statements that he might not back North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies who haven’t been fulfilling their financial obligations to the alliance.
Khan was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004, when Clinton was serving in the US Senate but Obama had yet to be elected to national office. Khan held up a copy of the Constitution, questioned whether Trump had even read it and asserted the billionaire had sacrificed nothing.
For most politicians, tangling with a bereaved military family would be out of bounds.
In Portland, some people at Trump’s rally said the candidate should stop getting distracted.
Those who have worked with him say that in private meetings he can often appear amenable to putting a controversy aside.
He fully meant to support the eventual nominee when he raised his hand at the presidential debate in March.
“I think at some point, all the artillery and all the focus needs to be on the battlefield aimed toward our enemy”, Carney said.
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A federal judge who has been a target of Mr Trump’s repeated scorn denied a media request to release videos of the candidate testifying in a lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University; Mr Trump’s lawyers had argued the videos would have been used to tarnish his campaign.
