Trump took to Twitter and said: “Many people are equating BREXIT, and what is going on in Great Britain, with what is happening in the U.S. People want their country back!”
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Britain’s stunning vote to leave the European Union, buoyed by a frenzy of nationalism and populist anger, was a crushing rejection of the political elite.
“I think there are great similarities between what happened here and my campaign”, Trump said from Scotland, where he was attending the opening of one of his golf courses.
“Having spent the last three decades of her life in public service, in the public eye and being a core part of the policies and the administrations that have brought us to where we are right now, it’s very hard for her to grab the mantle of change”, Tran said of the former secretary of state, senator and first lady. They took their country back, just like we will take America back.
A survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution on Thursday found that while Americans were closely split on the benefits of immigration and mostly said global trade is harmful, strong majorities rejected Trump’s promises to build a wall on the Mexican border and ban Muslim immigration.
Trump, say her aides, reacted with “pathological self-congratulations”, a lack of understanding about the situation and a focus on his own businesses rather than the economic impact on American families.
“He’s not concerned with foreign policy, he’s not concerned with the American people”, said Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan. “The vote yesterday is a reminder that Trump could very well win the presidential election”, she said. “When the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly”, Trump said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said after the vote he could step down by October, presents a cautionary lesson for Clinton as she prepares to face Trump.
The 15-member drafting committee will discuss changes to the document ahead of a meeting of the convention’s Platform Committee in Orlando, Florida, next month.
Outgoing President Barack Obama had traveled to London in April on Cameron’s request, who he calls a friend, exhorting Britons to stay in the EU. “They are not exactly in love with me”. Obama also won Florida twice, and Clinton has a lead there now in part because Trump is unpopular with Hispanics.
Hillary Clinton says economic uncertainty sparked by the Britain’s choice to leave the European Union “underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House”.
When asked if he had spoken to his foreign policy advisers about the vote, Trump said “there was nothing to talk about” and that a Trump administration would continue to count Britain as a close ally.
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The Donald Trump disaster tour landed in Scotland Friday, to check in on his Turnberry golf course. Trump spent Friday morning marking the $200 million-plus rehabilitation of Turnberry on the rocky Atlantic coast. But one man, wearing a Turnberry fleece, briefly interrupted the news conference by tossing a box of golf balls emblazoned with the Nazi logo.
