Republican senator says Trump should apologize

Leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain may have been given further pause by Trump’s refusal to reciprocate their endorsements. Obama questioned whether Trump would “observe basic decency” as president, argued he lacks elementary knowledge about domestic and global affairs and condemned his disparagement of a US Muslim couple, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed while serving the US Army in Iraq.

Trump tweeted Wednesday that the campaign unity is “perhaps greater than ever before”.

Donald Trump’s campaign says it raised $80 million in July to support his bid as well as the Republican Party.

Facing uproar over his dispute with the family, the NY businessman hit back on Tuesday at critics in the Republican leadership.

“He feels like a fool”, a Republican source familiar with the situation said of Priebus.

The campaign has been wracked by turmoil in recent days.

However, there are a few people at the rally who aren’t quite on the Trump train yet.

The Trump campaign had no immediate comment. The Republican presidential nominee also questioned the mother’s silence, insinuating that Ghazala Khan wasn’t allowed to speak during the speech because she is Muslim. Several media outlets reported on Wednesday that Trump had rejected advice from his staff to drop the dispute.

Republican Chris Christie, a Trump ally once viewed by the mogul as a potential running mate, joined the fray yesterday, calling the candidate’s criticisms of the Khan family “inappropriate”.

Obama turned up the heat on Republicans who appear increasingly ill at ease with Trump but have not withdrawn their endorsement.

Trump has been in a public fight with Khan’s parents after Khan’s father criticized the Republican nominee at last week’s Democratic convention.

Later Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard executive Meg Whitman – a prominent Republican fundraiser – threw her support behind Clinton, saying, “Donald Trump’s demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character”.

In an interview with The New York Times, Whitman said it was time “to put country first before party”. The Campaign and both Joint Fundraising Committees also have very strong cash on hand numbers totaling approximately $74 million ($37 million for DJTFP, $37 million for TMAGA/TV). Whitman funded her own, ultimately failed campaign to be elected governor of California in 2010.

“Trump has moved in exactly the opposite direction from our recommendations on how to make the party more inclusive”, said Ari Fleischer, who worked with Bradshaw on the GOP’s so-called post-election autopsy and was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush. In June, after hiring a national finance chairman and launching a collaboration with the RNC, Trump brought in $51 million. “This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he’s making”, Obama said.

Trump’s incendiary and often off-the-cuff rhetoric on Muslims, women and Mexican immigrants has drawn widespread criticism, including from some Republicans.