“You’ve given me the honor to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall”, Trump said. “The best way to help Donald Trump is to be honest with him. Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal healthcare coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump’s views are in line with theirs”. Curiel was born in IN to Mexican immigrants. But asked if he would consider rescinding his Trump endorsement, Blunt said bluntly: “No”.
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“To those who voted for someone else in either party, I will work very hard to earn your support”, he said adding, specifically to “Bernie supporters” that his campaign “welcomes you with open arms”.
His disavowal in the wake of Trump’s comments about the judge – the first of any leading Republican – followed the debut of a hard-hitting, multimillion-dollar television ad from Clinton allies.
“I will only say you can’t defend the indefensible”, he said, adding his vote for the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee is “not for sure”.
The poll was conducted from Friday to Tuesday, starting shortly after Trump’s first comments about U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing fraud lawsuits against Trump University, the NY businessman’s defunct real estate school. “I do wish Mr. Trump would reconsider that statement and make it clear it was ill-considered”.
“I don’t know if I want to deal with this at this particular point and time”, Coats said.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a former presidential rival who criticized Trump’s comments in an interview with CNN on Monday, waved off reporters pressing him if he still backed Trump as the nominee.
“I talked all day about it yesterday guys – you got a bunch of quotes”, Rubio said, hopping on an elevator and away from the press corps.
Stanley Hubbard, a Minnesota broadcast company billionaire who recently gave $100,000 to a pro-Trump group, put it this way: “It’s ridiculous”. The moderate Republican governor issued a statement Tuesday saying he has major concerns with the Republican nominee’s “escalating tone and rhetoric”.
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Democrats ridiculed Republicans for denouncing Trump’s comments yet continuing to back the mogul, in evidence of how much ammunition Trump is giving them as they try to boost their own deeply flawed presumptive nominee in Clinton.
There was also a special message for disappointed Sanders supporters watching dejectedly as Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination.
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“I don’t believe Trump is basically a racist”, Alabama Sen.
