Trump surges in poll after McCain attack

Several candidates have called on Mr Trump to back out of the race, accusing him of discrediting the Republican party, but he continues to perform strongly in the polls. McCain’s insult to thousands is really no different than Trump’s insult to him, it just isn’t as pointed, blunt and personal.

“I want you to say something to Senator McCain tonight, man to man, right to him, right now”, O’Reilly said at the end of his segment with the Republican presidential candidate, who is at or near the top in several recent national and state polls.

The strongly worded editorial said “being electable is not the same as being qualified, and Trump has proven himself not only unfit to hold office, but unfit to stand on the same stage as his Republican opponents”. “I am not a hero …” At an event Saturday in Iowa, Trump questioned whether McCain, who had been sharply critical of Trump earlier in the week, was a “war hero”. He’s a war hero. He insisted in a telephone interview with anchor Matt Lauer that he had said “four times” that he respected those captured in war.

“I would like him, however, to do something with the 15,000 people that were in Phoenix about illegal immigration”.

Trump softened his comments at a news conference later on Saturday, saying: “If a person is captured, they are a hero as far as I’m concerned”.

“I’ll admit, it’s not hard to become a prisoner of war, especially with the amount of planes being shot down… in that heavily defended airspace above Hanoi“, he said, “but what is hard is what comes after you [become] a prisoner”.

Trump also questioned Senator McCain’s intelligence, saying he graduated last in his class from the Naval Academy.

Perry has been the most outspoken critic of Trump’s comments.

And some listener’s pointed out that Donald Trump so-called disrespect of the troop doesn’t compare to the White House’s refusal to honor the five soldiers recently killed during last week’s Chattanooga attack. John McCain’s Vietnam War service, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

“Somehow to denigrate that in any way is offensive, I think, to most of our veterans”. The poll, fielded from Thursday to Sunday, found a drop-off in support for Trump in interviews conducted on the final day of fielding.

For Sollender, Trumps comments are unfathomable and are an indicator of what kind of president he would be.

Trump sparked outrage over the weekend when suggested that a serviceman who was captured could not be a real hero, in reference to McCain’s time in a Vietnamese prison.