Obama said that denunciations from Republicans of Trump’s remarks “ring hollow” without an accompanying withdrawal of support. John McCain to the head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars have condemned Trump’s behavior toward Khan’s mother and father, who have spoken against Trump during and after the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
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Trump tweeted Wednesday that the campaign unity is “perhaps greater than ever before”.
Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, called Humayon Khan a hero and blamed the policies of President Barack Obama and Clinton for allowing Islamic State to overrun a “once stable Middle East”.
On Tuesday, New York Congressman Richard Hanna became the first Republican to announce he would be voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in November.
Trump has been widely criticized, including by many Republicans, for denouncing the Khans, who are Muslim-Americans.
The campaign has been wracked by turmoil in recent days.
Republicans as well as Democrats have criticized Trump, his poll numbers are slipping and now he’s even drawn fire from the White House. He singled out Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, the ranking Republicans on Capitol Hill, noting that they have to contradict and repudiate what their nominee says on an nearly weekly basis.
During the speech, Khizr Khan said Trump has sacrificed “nothing” and “no one”, and that the billionaire real estate mogul did not understand that people of many backgrounds had given their life in service of their nation. They risk alienating them by flatly rejecting Trump. I said so last week.
In the Post interview, Trump also declined to support the re-election of Arizona Sen.
Ghazala Khan later denied Trump’s claim, saying that she chose not to speak because she was overcome by emotion when she saw her son’s picture.
Pierson argued Trump should be exempt from apologizing because “Donald Trump never voted for the Iraq War”. Clinton was a senator representing NY. Obama asked. He went on top day that Trump, as the Republican “standard bearer”, does not just make the “episodic gaffe”. “And he keeps on proving it”, Obama said during the press conference. Obama diverted from the central topic of that visit – moving along the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, which Trump opposes – to fundamentally question whether the federal government could function properly if Trump wins. It’s the broader general election audience, a far more diverse group still weighing Trump’s readiness for the White House. In June, after hiring a national finance chairman and launching a collaboration with the RNC, Trump brought in $51 million.
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That comes as he continues to face criticism from Republican lawmakers for attacking the Muslim-American parents of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “unfit” to serve as President and lambasted Republicans for sticking with the businessman-turned-politician.
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Opinion polls have shown Clinton benefiting from a boost after her party’s convention last week.
