House Republican Richard Hanna of NY said it was “not enough to simply denounce his (Trump’s) comments”, and said he would support former Secretary of State Clinton instead.
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Senior party activist Jan Halper-Hayes told the BBC she thought Mr Trump was “psychologically unbalanced”.
As Trump, the Republican nominee, faces falling poll numbers nationwide, that tumble is apparent in the states he needs most.
Whitman is chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and used to be CEO of eBay. Trump’s unsteady hand would endanger our prosperity and national security.
Whitman argued that Clinton’s temperament, global experience and commitment to America’s bedrock national values make her the far better choice for president in 2016.
In the past week, Donald Trump has suggested a foreign power hack his opponent, been involved in a public feud with the family of a slain soldier, and refused to back leading Republicans in their reelection bids. She ran unsuccessfully against Democrat Jerry Brown for California governor in 2010. “She is such a weak candidate that one would think that we would be on offense against Hillary Clinton, and it is distressing that that’s not what we’re talking about these days”. Trump suggested that a grief-stricken mother didn’t speak because she was Muslim.
She told the New York Times that not only will she vote for Hillary but “I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her”.
They also came on a day that saw the first sitting Republican member of Congress express support for Clinton as well as the top adviser to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the former top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
But, in looking at some research out of the Gallup organization, Americans were much more positive about the Democratic convention and Hillary Clinton’s speech than they were about Donald Trump’s convention.
Donald Trump is in trouble in two key swing states.
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And House Republican Adam Kinzinger of IL, a US Air Force veteran, told CNN he woke up Wednesday realizing that Trump has “crossed so many red lines” that he can no longer support the nominee, “no matter what the political cost to me”.
