Republican candidate for White House claims he was referring to voting power of pro-gun lobby.
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To be sure, neither Trump nor Clinton enjoys great popularity.
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of NY, a Trump backer, told a crowd in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that the uproar “proves that most of the press is in the tank for Hillary Clinton”.
On Tuesday, Republican nominee Donald Trump said, “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”, Trump said.
“People look at Trump and think he’s rich and think he can run the economy”, said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster.
The McMullin candidacy appears to be a last-ditch effort from some of the most outspoken conservative opponents of Donald Trump, who tumbled in the polls following his criticisms of the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq.
A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS has spoken to the Trump campaign regarding his Second Amendment comments. “It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have wonderful spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”.
In the past couple of days, she’s previewed her argument against the GOP nominee, including a new video stating that Trump’s plan offers huge tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations. “But there IS something we will do on #ElectionDay: Show up and vote for the #2A!” the group posted on Twitter.
And 69 percent of the poll’s respondents would rather watch a presidential debate between Trump and Clinton than an National Football League game, with 56 percent believing Clinton is likely to have a better performance than Trump in the first debate.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein also weighed in, calling for Trump to be disarmed.
In a carefully worded tweet, the Secret Service, perhaps for the first time in history, had to comment on remarks made by person under their protection.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims – 1.6 billion members of an entire religion – from entering the U.S.
“What he intended is very, very simple – that (gun owners) should vote against her”, Giuliani said on ABC’s Good Morning America. They included former CIA Director Michael Hayden, former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, former deputy national security adviser Robert Blackwill and William H. Taft IV, who was Reagan’s No. 2 civilian at the Pentagon and is the great-grandson of a Republican president.
The presidential candidate that House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed tried to explain away his suggestion of an assassination by telling Sean Hannity his comments were meant to unite supporters before the election.
“They tried to make his old, exhausted ideas sound new”, Clinton said in a Monday speech in Florida, in which she contended that Trump is simply repackaging “trickle-down” economics that weights tax policy to the favor of the wealthy on the idea that it flows down to everyone else. “What else could Trump do that would be worse than implying the positive impact of a political assassination?” the former US lawmaker wrote.
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The Republican Party needs to start examining quickly its options for removing the Republican nominee.
