Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton raised $90 million during the month of July, nearly three times the $35 million Republican nominee Donald Trump raised in the same month.
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Obama cited Trump’s ongoing feud with the bereaved Gold Star parents of late Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in a suicide attack in Iraq in 2004, as deserving more than mere condemnation from fellow Republicans.
“I do not expect perfection, but I do require more than the embodiment of at least a short list of the seven deadly sins”, he wrote.
Rep. Richard Hanna, R-N.Y., wrote in an essay for the Syracuse Post-Standard that the Republican presidential candidate was “unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”. After the Republican convention, prior to the Democratic one, Trump got a two-point bump and the race was tied, CBS said. Humayun Khan, the Muslim soldier who died heroically fighting for the U.S.in Iraq (and perhaps also from Trump’s joke about Russian Federation finding Clinton’s deleted emails).
High-profile Republicans have rebuked Trump in the wake of his spat with the Khans, including Sen.
Now the margin is 55 percent to 42 percent – the biggest in months for the CNN poll and one of the best leads Clinton has registered in head-to-head polling this year.
Richard Hanna, R-New York announced he would be putting his country before his party and casting his vote for Hillary Clinton. She also holds more commanding leads among women and non-whites.
Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, also used the occasion to ask Trump, also a super-rich real-estate businessman, to release his tax returns like all major presidential candidates in the USA have done since 1980. Ryan’s office declined to comment on Hanna’s announcement.
Trump’s presidential campaign has appealed to Capitol Hill for support amid the controversy, including circulating talking points for lawmakers to use, but has found little support.
Buffett is not the first billionaire to criticize Trump – Michael Bloomberg and Mark Cuban have also called out Trump on many issues, according to Business Insider.
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There are plenty of prominent Republicans who have telegraphed their displeasure with Donald Trump’s candidacy.
