Clinton also fired back at her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, who made comments Tuesday that many say was inciting violence against her.
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At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Mr Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment”.
The letter was published as Clinton’s campaign accelerated efforts to recruit prominent Republicans who may be primed to defect and support her after Trump’s rhetorical missteps and continued intra-party feuding.
On the defensive once again, Donald Trump is blaming faulty interpretations and media bias for an uproar over his comments about the Second Amendment.
CNN reported yesterday that the US Secret Service, which investigates threats against sitting presidents and party nominees, has had “more than one conversation” with Mr Trump’s campaign regarding the comments about Clinton and gun rights.
“In many respects, you know, they honour President Obama”, Trump said during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His latest unforced mishap: an off-hand remark that critics quickly slammed as a suggestion that gun-rights backers should take a literal shot at Hillary Clinton should she win the White House.
After touring a local t-shirt store and stopping at a bakery, Clinton spoke to about 1500 people packed in the gym at Lincoln High School.
But some supporters at his rally, including one seated behind Trump on camera, seemed to react with surprise to his remark, suggesting they realized it could be taken another way.
As Trump struggled to turn the page on a hard period in his campaign, Clinton’s campaign continued a push to win over Republicans and independents Wednesday, launching a group called “Together for America”.
On Tuesday, Mr Trump falsely said that Mrs Clinton wanted to revoke the right to gun ownership. The next day, Trump – then embroiled in a primary battle with a host of challengers – said, “Four times, I said he is a hero”.
The Democratic nominee for president never stopped speaking at a Des Moines rally as Secret Service members stood around her on stage and others tackled and carried away the protester.
The Democratic nominee’s campaign director, Robby Mook, reacted at the time in a statement saying that “This is simple – what Trump is saying is risky”.
The Clinton campaign blasted the release of the emails by Judicial Watch, a conservative group that obtained them through open records requests from the State Department.
As Mrs. Clinton addressed some 1,650 people at the Iowa rally, she got a rare scare. “I think you could read this as a call to violence, but you could also read what he said as simply, ‘Go to the ballot box, assert your power, stand up for what you believe in'”.
“I’m in a quandary as to who I am going to vote for”, Rohrscheib said.
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In her acceptance speech at the Democratic convention last month, Clinton said the country could not have a president “in the pocket of the gun lobby”.
