The speech did not address a firestorm of criticism Trump generated from the Republican Party over his suggestion a U.S. federal judge was not qualified to rule on cases involving Trump because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.
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On Tuesday, Republicans were squirming over what might have been the billionaire’s most incendiary stance to date – the claim that Judge Curiel couldn’t preside fairly over the Trump University case because the USA -born judge is of Mexican heritage and Trump wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico.
“Some of the Republicans – and in all fairness, they’re some of the people that I went through war with, and I won, and there’s a lot of – there’s a lot of anxiety there”, he said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. Trump added that he did not plan to comment further on the matter. Paul Ryan and Donald Trump are in this together.
“I will make you proud of our party and our movement”, Trump said. “Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment”, Ryan said. “I think it would be a singular moment in American history, because I think I’ll have chance to make clear why I believe why he is not qualified and temperamentally unfit to be president”.
Trump also reached out to Bernie Sanders supporters in hopes they will abandon Democrats once Hillary Clinton secures the nomination.
Behind the scenes, Trump has been pressured from friends and family to back down, fearful of the damage that may be done to his prospects in the general election, a source close to the Trump campaign said.
“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone”, she told cheering supporters at a rally in NY.
“While this lawsuit should have been dismissed, it is now scheduled for trial in November”, he said in a written statement issued by the campaign. “Everybody is mystified about why he would keep doing it”.
Clinton spoke at an emotional rally in Brooklyn, eight years to the day after she ended her first failed White House run.
The party was in full panic Tuesday over how to deal with a candidate who appeared uninterested in the advice of party leaders and some in his own campaign.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Ken Thomas wrote this report. “There’ll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary”.
Presumptive Republican presidential nomineeDonald Trump defended his comments about a federal judge Tuesday while facing the prospect of a revolt by GOP lawmakers who say his racially charged rhetoric will cost them elections up and down the ballot. “Mr. Trump’s comments demonstrate both a lack of respect for the judicial system and the principle of separation of powers”. Kirk is seeking re-election in November.
His disavowal in the wake of Trump’s comments about the judge – the first of any leading Republican – followed the debut of a hard-hitting, multimillion-dollar television ad from Clinton allies. “That’s not somebody who can win the White House”.
In North Carolina Tuesday, Rep. Renee Ellmers, endorsed by Trump, became the first Republican incumbent ousted in this year’s primaries. “He’s put his supporters in a very unfair position because they can’t defend what he said but they don’t want to undermine his candidacy”. “When you’re in a political party, you gotta support your nominee until it’s apparent that a guy like Donald Trump being president is just bad for the country and he shouldn’t be supported”.
The situation with the judge is different, Williams said.
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Sanders refused to capitulate on Tuesday, vowing to “continue the fight” to the final Democratic primary in the capital Washington next week, and then on to the Democratic convention in July.
