“This is not just a convention bounce”, said Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s national finance chairman.
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A new ad supporting Hillary Clinton uses the words of Republican leaders and appointees to make the case that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit to lead the United States.
Clinton raised $63 million in July for her campaign, as well as $26 million for the Democratic National Committee and state parties, bringing her total monthly fundraising to about $90 million.
While rallying his supporters in Pennsylvania last night, Trump said that he had been hearing “more and more” that the election may not be contested fairly, though he did not elaborate further. The RealClearPolitics average of recent national opinion polls put her 4.5 percentage points ahead of Trump, at 46.5 percent to 42 percent.
Trump has been in a public fight with Khan’s parents after Khan’s father criticized the Republican nominee at last week’s Democratic convention.
“I like Paul, but these are awful times for our country”, Trump said.
Much of it was his standard stump speech, calling former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “crooked”, blasting foreign and other policy decisions under Barack Obama’s administration and reiterating his intentions to build a wall at the country’s southern border.
Many Republican leaders, including Ryan and McCain, have criticized Trump’s attacks on the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who received the Bronze Star Medal after being killed in a vehicle bomb in Iraq in 2004.
But his latest comments could hurt Trump’s general election campaign as his supporters might decide not to turn out to vote if the election is already “rigged” against their candidate.
Trump’s comments Monday came as he decried Vermont Sen.
Writing in the Washington Post, Mrs Khan said she did not speak because she finds talking about her son’s death extremely hard.
The crowd inside the August 1 event was smaller than Trump’s appearance at the same venue in November; hundreds of supporters in lines outside were blocked from entering after 1,000 came through the doors, though half of the convention hall was empty.
“We are extremely proud of our 69% growth in small dollar donations which shows the broad based support of over one million donors across America”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned any criticism of Muslim Americans who serve their country, but avoided mentioning Mr Trump.
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Ryan and Trump have disagreed on some issues, and the Wisconsin Republican was somewhat slow in endorsing Trump even after he wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination. John McCain of Arizona in their GOP primaries.
