Donald Trump says there’s “great unity” in his campaign -despite growing dissent and turmoil among his fellow Republicans.
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The HP CEO, who was a former California gubernatorial candidate in 2010, considers Donald Trump a “demagogue”, “reckless” and “uninformed” and called on Republican voters to “reject” him in the November elections.
“The candidate is in control of his campaign”, campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News Channel, highlighting his inability to control the nominee.
Later, at a rally in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Pence suggested Trump speaks “straight from his heart, straight from his mind” and doesn’t have time for “thousands of rules of political correctness”.
Donald Trump is openly taunting the leaders of his own party by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Sen. “Our campaign just finished up our strongest month of fundraising to date, we’re adding talented and experienced staffers on a daily basis and Mr. Trump’s turning out bigger, more enthusiastic crowds than Hillary Clinton ever could”, he said in a statement.
Trump has come under fire for his response. In a poll this year, according to the Crimson, only 4% of Harvard students in the class of 2016 said they’d vote for Trump against Hillary Clinton. But Karen Vaughn, whose son Aaron, a Navy SEAL, died in Afghanistan, said she left it feeling that Trump understood where the families were coming from. “Of course, he’s going to work with Paul Ryan”.
The Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week that the United States should debate deporting all Muslims from the country.
“I’m just not there yet”, Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post, closely echoing Ryan’s demurral before he endorsed Trump, telling CNN on May 6, “I’m not there right now”.
Trump defended his actions, asserting that he was “viciously attacked” by Khan and felt the need to set the “totally dishonest” media straight. “I will gladly lend you my copy”, Charlottesville resident Khizr Khan said at the DNC. Trump later declined to endorse Ryan, although Ryan said Thursday he still supports Trump, despite some sharp language distancing himself from the Republican nominee.
The turbulent week, including Trump’s criticism of the Muslim soldier’s family and sinking poll numbers, has led to low morale within his small campaign team. “That would be awful”, he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida.
In an email to MSNBC, Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks addressed the speculation, saying: “There is no truth to this whatsoever”. But aides to Pence said he never meant to withhold support for either of the senators.
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Trump raised questions this week when he repeatedly claimed to have witnessed video shot in Tehran of the recent $400 million cash transfer from the USA government. In the weeks before the 1996 presidential election, as it became clearer and clearer that GOP nominee Bob Dole would not defeat incumbent president Bill Clinton, Republican operatives began urging their struggling congressional candidates to begin making the argument: “Let’s not give Clinton a blank check”.
