Some Republicans say they back Clinton because they don’t support Donald Trump’s bombastic style and controversial statements.
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He continued: “You know how speeches go”.
Trump made headlines Tuesday when he asserted at a rally that Clinton, the Democratic presidential nomine, wanted to “essentially abolish” the Second Amendment – a claim the Clinton campaign has repeatedly denied – and that only the “Second Amendment people” would perhaps be able to stop her as president.
The Trump campaign attempted to clarify the nominee’s statement shortly after the speech. “I’ve known him for 28 years”, Giuliani said.
When the race was expanded to the four nominees now on the ballot, Clinton earned 44 percent, Trump earned 40 percent, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson earned 9 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein earned 3 percent. “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton – it will be for Donald Trump”.
“The real question is why hasn’t Hillary Clinton come out and completely disavowed this person coming to her rally, saying there’s no place for him or his son committed the biggest atrocity of gun violence in the history of our country”, Lewandowski said.
“This is simple – what Trump is saying is unsafe”, campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement. “All the Second Amendment people – maybe there is”.
Trump’s intended message was not immediately clear, but lawmakers, former national security officials and other critics expressed concern that he had advocated, possibly in jest, that Clinton or her Supreme Court nominees could be shot.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, is up 50-44 percent over Republican Donald Trump in the survey, which began a week after the Democratic convention ended. “It’s all so disgusting and embarrassing and sad”, Murphy tweeted. “Unstable people with powerful guns and an unhinged hatred for Hillary are listening to you, @realDonaldTrump”.
“One read: “@RealDonaldTrump is right.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, Trump said.
Michael Hayden, a former Central Intelligence Agency director who on Monday was among 50 Republican national security experts to denounce Trump in a letter, said on CNN, “You’re not just responsible for what you say”.
The second read: “But there IS something we will do on #ElectionDay: Show up and vote for the #2A!”
The group’s comments drew a sharp reply from Trump, who painted them as “nothing more than the failed Washington elite looking to hold onto their power” and saying they should be “held accountable” for making the world less safe. Those people who are sitting behind the candidate are hand-selected.
“It proves that most of the press is in the tank for Hillary Clinton”, he added.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said then that neither Trump nor his campaign agree with Baldasaro’s comments.
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Trump’s comments Tuesday were reminiscent of the “Second Amendment remedies” floated in 2010 by Sharron Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate who was criticized for seeming to allude to a call for violence.
