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‘Words can have tremendous consequences’: Clinton responds to Trump’s 2nd Amendment controversy

Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, said Trump’s comments were “dangerous”. “Very rarely do you see politicians mentioning the second amendment, violence, and a candidate in the same sentence”, he told CTV News Channel from Washington.

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“Hillary wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment”, he told supporters in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Kasich is one of Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, and Antani had served as one of his convention delegates.

Trump is “so unintelligible anyway”, Herriott said.

The group aims to use a wave of almost 50 recent endorsements by high-profile Republicans and independents to convince voters to cross party lines. Some pledged to withhold their endorsement and others backed Clinton. Terri Bonoff of Minnetonka, who has continually called on Paulsen to repudiate Trump, as some other congressional Republicans have.

In a particularly inflammatory statement after Trump’s alarming comment, the head of the NRA’s political wing declared Clinton was a threat to America’s fundamental values.

On July 31, Hillary Clinton went on Fox News and said she saw the Federal Bureau of Investigation director saying she had always told the truth when he said exactly the opposite.

Clinton’s campaign, seeing an opening, has moved to bring disenchanted Republicans into the fold by announcing an official intraparty outreach effort on behalf of the Democratic nominee.

It can be a complicated subject, but a new video from Business Insider breaks down what it calls the most likely path to the White House for Republican nominee Donald Trump. “And now his casual inciting of violence”, she said.

The conflict between Donald Trump’s campaign and loyalists to Ohio Gov. John Kasich appears to be continuing. He railed against the fact that the Orlando shooter’s father, Mr Seddique Mateen, was spotted in the crowd behind Mrs Clinton during a Monday rally in Florida, adding, “Of course he likes Hillary Clinton”. “We may not agree on everything, but this is not a normal election”. “I don’t like her”, said Smith, a 74-year-old retiree who lives in Clearwater, Florida.

On the defensive once again, Donald Trump is blaming faulty interpretations and media bias for an uproar over his comments about the Second Amendment.

“It’s just another issue the press has really twisted to make headlines”, Hughey said.

In addition to the poll showing 19 percent of registered Republicans want Trump to drop out, a separate Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll showed that some 44 percent of 1,162 registered voters believe he should exit the race.

“Well I get carried away when I think about all of the jobs we’re going to create”.

In the past, Mr. Trump has also falsely suggested Mr. Obama is a Muslim or was born in Kenya, where the President’s father was from. A former secretary of homeland security and the ex-governor of Arizona, Napolitano will discuss the 2016 presidential campaign, particularly Donald Trump’s “Second Amendment people” comments and new questions being raised about email exchanges between employees at the Clinton Foundation and the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. On Wednesday, a Secret Service official told CNN that they have talked with the Trump campaign about his comment.

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But strategists cautioned that it would be hard, if not impossible, to remove Trump from the Republican ticket.

NBCHillary Clinton speaks at a Lincoln High School campaign event in Des Moines Iowa Wednesday Aug. 10 2015