Donald Trump pushed back ever harder Tuesday against Republicans fed up with his provocations, disclosing one rival presidential candidate’s mobile number in a fiery speech that escalated his feuding with his own party.
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On Saturday, he provoked a huge backlash among Republican faithful by trash-talking Vietnam war hero Senator John McCain, one of America’s most respected politicians who was held prisoner five years and tortured after being shot down.
Donald Trump will head to the U.S.-Mexico border this week, most likely on Thursday, traveling to Laredo, Texas to tour the border with a group of US border patrol agents.
“I like people that weren’t captured“, Trump said, which sparked an outrage among supporters of McCain and war veterans.
Speaking about Trump at a campaign event on Tuesday in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Bush said that people are right to be frustrated with government but that “if we embrace this language of divisiveness and ugliness, we’ll never win”.
But many Trump backers in early-voting states argue the exchange is being overblown by the media and his opponents, who fear his sudden rise in early polls.
It’s hard to get the last word in a feud with Donald Trump, but Lindsey Graham is giving it the college try.
Graham had called Trump a “jackass” for criticizing McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
Trump read the South Carolina senator’s phone number onstage at a campaign rally on Tuesday in an apparent response to Graham calling Trump a “jackass” during in an interview with CNN.
“He won’t fix anything, but at least he’ll talk to you“, Trump said. “I don’t think he’s even very popular in his home state because you heard the applause I was getting”, Trump said on Fox.
Donald Trump announced he was running for president on June 25.
Mr Graham’s voice mailbox was full by Tuesday afternoon. “The problem with Mr. Trump’s language is that it’s divisive, it’s ugly, it’s mean-spirited”, Bush told a gathering of Republican women in Spartanburg. The first debate, next month, will host the top 10 candidates in national polling, meaning Trump is nearly certain to qualify to be on stage.
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He insisted he would stay in the Republican primary field, despite rivals who say he has now shown he does not merit the presidency. “He’s a train wreck, he’s a auto wreck and I think he’s shown yet again why he’s not going to make it through this process”. This has characterised much of his short Republican nomination campaign.
