In an op-ed for Syracuse.com, Hanna writes that Trump is deeply flawed in endless ways and unrepentant in all things before declaring: “While I disagree with her on many issues, I will vote for Mrs. Clinton”.
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The Republican party, Hanna said, is becoming increasingly less capable of nominating a presidential candidate who is electable.
And CBS has her out front 46 to 39 percent.
The father, Khizr Khan, had harsh words for Trump at the Democratic convention where he spoke on Thursday night, saying the 70-year-old businessman and former reality TV star had “sacrificed nothing and no one” and railing against his calls to ban Muslim immigrants.
Interviewed by The Washington Post, Trump said he could endorse neither House Speaker Paul Ryan nor Senator John McCain, both of whom face Republican challengers in primary votes in their states ahead of the November 8 general election. John McCain in their respective primaries.
The New York billionaire, meanwhile, has blamed his recent struggles on the news media, and said that “something funny” is going on with the polls.
A combination photo shows US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L) and Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) in Los Angeles, California on May 5, 2016 and in Eugene, Oregon, US on May 6, 2016 respectively. “I do better when they don’t come back”.
“Trump seems to go out of his way to antagonize members of his party”, Mr. Johnson said.
President George W. Bush, the last victorious Republican presidential nominee, won 93 percent of Republicans and 84 percent of self-described conservatives in 2004 – much higher than the 78 percent and 64 percent, respectively, at which Mr. Trump is polling. The ad, which says “It’s 3am and the phone’s ringing in the White House, who do you want to answer that call?” is a reference to Hillary Clinton’s similar campaign commercial from the 2008 race. “The question is: Can Trump bring out millions more voters that would offset the Democratic edge that they had four years ago?”
Onondaga County GOP Chairman Thomas Dadey said of Hanna’s decision: “It would hurt more if he had ever acted or voted like a Republican during any of his three terms in Congress”. He also said that after Trump listed his casino and hotel company on the New York Stock Exchange in 1995, investors lost money, even though “in 1995 when he offered this company, if a monkey had thrown a dart at the stock page, the monkey on average would have made 150 percent”.
Trump, who has said his business success qualifies him to lead the country, defended his record running his hotel and casino business in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Campaigning in Virginia on Tuesday, Mr. Trump continued to reach out to disenfranchised voters that feel as though they have been burned by free trade and immigration. Trump said Ryan had sought his endorsement, but that as of now he is only “giving it very serious consideration”. “She symbolizes everything I think is wrong with this state and country”.
