US President Barack Obama has praised the strength of America’s alliances with Australia and other Asia-Pacific nations while slamming Donald Trump as being unfit for the White House.
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“Frankly the frustration we have is with you all”, he said during a telephone interview, “because you’re not covering our side of the campaign”.
“Everything he’s made he’s made somewhere else”, she said as she toured a Las Vegas electric manufacturer Thursday afternoon. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough'”. “The fact that that has not yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow”.
“No one ― no one ― has given more for our freedom and security than our Gold Star families”, the president said, specifically referencing Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq 12 years ago.
After Khizir Khan, who lost his son in a suicide bombing in Iraq, declared at last week’s Democratic National Convention that Trump had “sacrificed nothing”, the Republican nominee claimed he’d been “viciously attacked” and questioned why Khan’s wife, Ghazala, didn’t make her own remarks.
“However, I do not believe that she can, in this race, politically, afford to completely turn her back on those Trump Republicans or she probably loses the race”, said Spradling. “He can tweet all he wants, you know, but I have to do this for my country and my party”, Kinzinger said. I’m not a fighter. “So, it is not so easy to do things, but it is not so easy to completely mess things up”, Lee said.
Amid the feuding within Republican ranks, prominent party donor and fundraiser Meg Whitman has publicly endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton, saying Donald Trump’s “demagoguery” had undermined the national fabric.
Concerned congressional Republicans are asking about Trump “hourly and daily”, said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a leading Trump emissary on Capitol Hill. Trump asked Monday during a campaign appearance in Pennsylvania. Pence appeared to ignore the question and kept moving down the line. The woman’s question was met with boos from the audience, though Pence hushed the crowd, saying the question was fair.
French President Francois Hollande also laid into Trump.
Trump is scheduled to appear at a rally in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington Tuesday.
For the person presently holding that title, the analysis was very different.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence isn’t addressing GOP tensions after running mate Donald Trump refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or Arizona Sen. It’s his preparedness for the job.
One member of Trump’s party arrived at the same conclusion Tuesday.
“I find Trump deeply flawed in endless ways”, Hanna wrote in a newspaper editorial announcing his decision. It’s not just the optics of picking a fight with a military family that has GOP officials eager for Trump to move on, but the timing of his attacks: Election Day is just three months away.
“My suggestion would be: Go out there and try to win the election”. “I was stunned by the callousness of his comments”.
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This is a point I’d made before about GW Bush.
