Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed Wednesday that his campaign would win Pennsylvania “easily”, despite a recent poll showing him trailing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by double digits. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I dunno”.
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A US Secret Service official has spoken to the Donald Trump campaign over his Second Amendment comments.
Trump replied to the CNN story by denying on Twitter that such a meeting ever took place. “It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have fantastic spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, said spokesman Jason Miller.
Democratic candidate Mrs Clinton said her Republican rival’s remarks were a “casual inciting of violence” that show he lacks the temperament to be the American commander-in-chief.
In the late afternoon, Trump had scoffed at the CNN’s claim of Secret Service concern.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post saying the party was in “uncharted waters” and called for leaders to start looking for ways to remove Trump from the ticket.
CNN formally confirmed the news later Wednesday afternoon in an on-air report.
“Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment”, Trump told supporters.
Clinton’s campaign decried Trump’s “dangerous” language and demanded in a statement that presidential hopefuls “not suggest violence in any way”.
Over pictures of a woman who resembles Clinton boarding a private jet, a narrator says, “She’s one of the wealthiest women in politics”. “Donald Trump is urging people around this country to act consistent with their convictions in the course of this election, and people who cherish the Second Amendment have a very clear choice in this election”. “You can just bet it”, de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference announcing an upcoming new school on the Upper West Side.
Clinton seemed to be ready to riff on the incident in Iowa, telling the crowd, “Some people get a little carried away, have you noticed that?”
Mr Trump later maintained he never advocated violence and his words were twisted for political purposes.
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The Trump campaign, which blamed the controversy on “dishonest media”, said the comment was meant to refer to political action.
