Some have said Trump’s words suggested he was sending gun owners against Clinton if she wanted to appoint judges.
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Before his second rally Tuesday night, Trump continued to hammer Clinton on Second Amendment issues, but without the incendiary line he used earlier in the day.
“If she gets to pick her judges”, Trump said, “nothing you can do, folks”.
“I’m not here to repeal the Second Amendment”, she said in her Democratic National Convention speech.
Trump is being accused by the Clinton campaign and some journalists of calling for her assassination, along with any of her Supreme Court nominees.
However, donors to candidates considered to be outside the Republican establishment were far more likely to give to Trump. “Clinton, she’s going to double up your taxes”.
If you – we can add I think the National Rifle Association, we can add the Second Amendment to the Justices – they nearly go – in a certain way, hand in hand.
“This is simple – what Trump is saying is unsafe”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement.
“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have fantastic spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, senior Trump communications advisor Jason Miller said.
Trump’s perceived violation of political norms – candidates do not typically call for physically hurting opponents – was all the more striking because the position he was criticizing is not one that Clinton even holds.
“But there IS something we will do on #ElectionDay: Show up and vote for the #2A!” the group posted on Twitter. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said then that neither Trump nor his campaign agree with Baldasaro’s comments.
And Keri Malkin, 49, said she didn’t “hear it that way at all”, suggesting the insinuation that the comment was a threat against Clinton was engineered by her supporters.
“This individual wasn’t invited as a guest, and the campaign was unaware of his attendance until after the event”, Clinton’s campaign said in an email to reporters.
He suffers from sinking poll numbers, including a Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday that shows him trailing Clinton in crucial battleground states OH and Pennsylvania, and virtually tied in Florida. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who called Trump’s remarks “an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis”.
The Republican presidential nominee has been working this week to move past distracting campaign disputes, but once again he put himself at the center of a blazing controversy.
Some who attended Trump’s rally argued that Trump was not trying to incite violence with his comments. “I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”. That is actually a very arresting comment.
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“This is simple-what Trump is saying is unsafe”, Mook said. Susan Collins became the latest to declare she won’t vote for her party’s nominee, explicitly pointing to his “constant stream of cruel comments”. At the same time, Trump is contending with concerns about his ability to serve as president, with a growing list of fellow Republicans deeming him unfit for the Oval Office.
