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Trump says Obama-ISIS remark was sarcasm

“We’re having a problem”, Trump told the ministers, adding that the next president could get to nominate up to five high-court justices. Asked specifically about US citizens, Trump told the Miami Herald that he didn’t like that Obama and others wanted to try them in traditional courts. That’s led to tension between the Trump campaign and RNC officials over strategies and tactics. She lied. She lied. The officials weren’t authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.

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Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016. Trump is encountering worrying signs as his campaign moves into the November election. But McCain, like many the other Republicans who have criticized Trump, has also declined to withdraw his support for the Republican nominee.

Priebus began his speech by asking the roaring crowd, “Are you all ready to win? I mean, if he’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or supporting, you know, the ISIS-type of attitude against America, there’s no reason for Donald Trump to have to honor this man”.

The letter takes aim at Trump for recent controversies, including his public spat with the parents of a fallen USA soldier, his suggestion that gun owners should take action if Hillary Clinton is elected, exposing his “total ignorance of basic foreign policy” and his reported interest in the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons. Asked specifically about USA citizens, Trump said he didn’t like that President Barack Obama and others wanted to try them in traditional courts rather than military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Trump said in an interview with ABC News’. The state’s large Mormon population has voiced serious skepticism about Trump, though the state’s GOP governor has endorsed him.

“We’ve got an un-indicted felon as his opponent and you’re talking about Khan, about him making a remark about this man”, he said.

Yet in other traditionally GOP-leaning states, like Arizona and Georgia, Republicans are concerned Trump’s unpopularity could give Democrats an improbable victory.

GOP concerns about Trump are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans were gathering signatures for a letter urging the party’s chairman to stop helping Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates, according to a draft obtained by the Associated Press.

Only hours before, the billionaire businessman had restated the allegation with no mention of sarcasm, telling rally-goers in Kissimmee, Fla., that “I’ve been saying that Barack Obama is the founder”. He repeated that claim Thursday, but in a tweet Friday, referred to it as sarcasm.

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Trump, who is lagging Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in opinion polls, was not expected to attend the Orlando gathering after staging a rally near there on Thursday.

Trump was reduced to citing a poll that actually showed him a few points behind Clinton and arguing the race between them was close