The Trump campaign issued a statement saying that Trump meant people who support the Second Amendment are unified and will vote together.
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At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Trump said Clinton could abolish the Second Amendment through her potential picks for Supreme Court justices. The Clinton backers largely include former officials, though some current Republican officeholders have said they won’t vote for Trump. A number of prominent Republicans have declined to endorse him in the November 8 election against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, citing his fiery rhetoric and policy proposals such as building a wall along the U.S.
“Hillary Clinton’s position on the Second Amendment is that she will appoint a judge that will make it not a personal right which means that any state and any city in America can completely ban firearms”.
The latest outrage in the 2016 presidential election has the bombastic Republican nominee dancing on the defensive, and has some members of the GOP wondering whether anything can be done to reign in Donald Trump.
“It wasn’t that he was inciting violence, it was that the media were taking his words and turning them into something that weren’t really there”, said another panelist and Trump backer Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear firearms.
Who can say with a straight face that this wouldn’t be “to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment”?
Was Trump suggesting gun owners take matters into their own hands?
CNN managed to find the white-bearded man-Darrell Vickers of Oak Island, N.C. -and on Wednesday afternoon he played defense for the Cheeto-colored candidate all while confessing he’d have physically punished Trump for making such a remark in public.
According to the Bloomberg survey, Clinton benefits from consolidated Democratic support around her candidacy and backers who are more interested in electing her than in simply stopping her opponent.
His campaign said the comment was misinterpreted even as it sparked backlash from Clinton’s campaign as well as some Republicans. “He’s casting negativity and darkness, and so you hear that and it disturbs you”, Booker said Tuesday in an interview with The Daily Targum. He told Fox News that “there can be no other interpretation”.
“Give me a break”, Trump said hours later, insisting he was referring to the power that voters hold.
The highest-ranked Republican, House Speaker Paul Ryan, said it was an inappropriate joke.
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They endorsed me very early. “You never joke about something like that”. One time was when he told the New York Times about his strategy of mentioning “the wall” whenever his audiences get bored.
