Many current Republicans officeholders have said they can not support Trump, but none, so far, have said they would back Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee.
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“If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton”, Armitage told Politico.
Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, ricocheted from rejection of Trump’s comments on Muslims to doubts about the legality of his proposed immigration ban to bafflement over the billionaire’s response to the Orlando shootings.
According to the poll, 51 per cent of those surveyed said they expected Clinton to secure the presidency in November, compared with 35 per cent who predict Trump will win the election. But Trump said Mateen was in America “in the first place” because his family immigrated from Afghanistan. Almost 90 percent of Virginia voters polled said they support background checks on all gun purchases, compared with 8 percent of voters polled who oppose the checks.
In his Friday New York Times column, David Brooks equated President Barack Obama’s reluctance to smear an entire faith with Donald Trump’s insistence that terrorist attacks “are central to Islam”. And in 2012 he was backed by Rhode Island senator-turned-governor Lincoln Chafee, a Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat.
“I found her very kind, a very good person”. I’m going to do very well. “One of the positive ones came from a friend who hosted a fundraiser for Rob Portman, but he probably doesn’t want me to say who he is”.
The speaker is slated to serve as the chair of the GOP national convention giving Trump the official nomination for president next month in Cleveland. “Some of these things, I don’t know what Donald Trump is thinking”.
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On overall judgment, however, Clinton pulls ahead of Trump, earning 43 per cent of support from those who believe she shows good judgment, compared with Trump who comes in at 25 per cent among those who view his judgment favourably. “We’ll see if he’s able to put it back on the track, I don’t know, but not a lot of happy campers in terms of how this race is proceeding so far”.
