“To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division”, Whitman said.
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Republican leaders’ frustration with Donald Trump mounted Wednesday following a series of startling statements from the GOP nominee, including his refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign has hired a new state director in North Carolina, state Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes confirmed Wednesday.
Manafort said the controversy surrounding the military family “shouldn’t have been that important in the context of the broader campaign.We wanted to keep the focus on (Hillary Clinton’s) record and on the Obama administration that she was a part of, and things that she put into play, not us”.
Syracuse.com reported that Hanna said in an interview he considered supporting Clinton for months, but chose to take action after watching Trump criticize the Muslim American parents of a USA soldier killed in Iraq.
Trump’s stunning slap at two of the nation’s most prominent Republicans dramatically escalated GOP turmoil barely a week after a convention meant to promote party unity.
A three-term USA representative from NY on Tuesday became the first Republican member of Congress to declare publicly that he will vote for Hillary Clinton for president.
Trump has been widely criticized, including by many Republicans, for denouncing the Khans, who are Muslim-Americans.
Former George W. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer expressed the sense of bewilderment settling over the political world when he reflected on Trump’s take-no-prisoners political style. “And that can’t start until he apologizes to the Khans”, Dakota Meyer, one of a handful of living Medal of Honor recipients and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s son-in-law, wrote Tuesday on Twitter.
He says Trump, “strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan in next Tuesday’s primary”.
And so far, McCain, Ryan and other Republicans who’ve reluctantly declared that they plan to back Trump for president appear to be sticking with him.
Meg Whitman, the president and chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, the New York Times said. “And we are confident in a victory next week regardless”. Kelly Ayotte. Both had been among Trump’s harshest critics in the wake of his comments about the Khan family, particular McCain, a former prisoner of war who said Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”.
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But Johnson refused to withdraw his support of Trump. “There is no post-primary redemption for John McCain”, Croes added, in a reference to McCain’s August 30 primary face-off against a tea party-backed conservative. “For me, if our party has a future, we have to change that trajectory and lead by example”.
