Kelly Ayotte, who recently denounced Donald Trump’s comments questioning the integrity of a Mexican-American judge, is not satisfied by her party’s presumptive presidential nominee’s attempt to clarify his remarks, which set off strong rebukes from his fellow Republicans.
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Scott said he saw no need for GOP lawmakers to rescind their endorsements of Trump.
“Some of the Republicans – and in all fairness, they’re some of the people that I went through war with, and I won, and there’s a lot of – there’s a lot of anxiety there”, he said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Kirk is in a tight re-election race in a majority Democrat state, facing a challenge from IL congresswoman Tammy Duckworth. Most others, including Ryan, reaffirmed their plans to support him, but the situation exposed the peril for Republicans with the volatile and unpredictable Trump as their standard-bearer.
Trump has contended that Curiel, who is presiding over a case alleging that Trump University fleeced students, can’t judge him fairly because the judge is of Mexican heritage and Trump wants to build a wall between the USA and Mexico.
Other events, including news that Clinton had secured enough delegates and superdelegates to become the first female presidential candidate of a major USA political party, occurred toward the end of the poll. The presumptive Republican nominee has defended those comments several times since then.
Donald Trump is on thin ice with Senate Republicans in hard reelection races, with many sharply distancing themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee and offering tepid support as the party struggles to unite. That edge briefly disappeared in May after Trump’s remaining rivals for the Republican nomination dropped out and party leaders started to line up behind his campaign.
“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment”, Ryan told reporters Tuesday. This is despite the fact that Curiel was born in Indiana.
Sandoval told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he thought Trump’s comments about a federal judge handling a case involving Trump University were unacceptable. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a longtime opponent of Trump. “Questions were raised regarding the Obama-appointed judge’s impartiality”, Trump said. “No I do not”, Ryan added.
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His comments have sparked a backlash among members of the Republican Party, House Speaker Paul Ryan saying Tuesday that they are “the textbook definition of racist comments”. “And Trump, who has grandparents who came to the USA, should understand this as much as anybody”. Trump is taking comfort in polls showing him in a close race with Hillary Clinton, and unless that changes he may not change course anytime soon.
Christie, who met with the candidate Tuesday at Trump Tower, told reporters that “it’s refreshing to have somebody who’s willing to speak their mind and is not reading from a script”.
What Ryan is really saying is that a racist president is acceptable, provided that said president embraces the party agenda. “We’ve got what we’ve got”.
Unfortunately, Trump didn’t say whether another thing he said was so misconstrued: that he also could not suffer a judge of Muslim heritage, given his proposed ban of Muslims entering the US. “That’s not somebody who can win the White House”.
Trump has an incredibly warped worldview that will be thoroughly challenged as Latino judges continue to decide the fate of his many business ventures facing various lawsuits.
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One of Trump’s top supporters, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, left Trump Tower Tuesday without commenting to reporters when asked about the controversy. “But I do absolutely disavow those comments, I think they’re wrong, I think they’re wrongheaded, and the thinking behind it is something I don’t even personally relate to”.
