Paul Ryan reaffirms support for Trump, critiques campaign

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a purple heart medal given to him by Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman during a campaign event at Briar Woods High School August 2, 2016, in Ashburn, Virginia.

Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence has tried to focus on winning over conservatives who are skeptical of the NY billionaire, but his new boss keeps getting in the way. I urge all Republicans to reject Donald Trump this November.

“Well, you know, I think the polls are fluid right now”, Lacy said.

There’s no indication Trump is unsatisfied with Pence’s approach.

But a nightmare 24-hour period for the embattled Republican nominee – he refused to end his public feud with the parents of a fallen Muslim American soldier, declined to back House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election bid and used crass language while accepting a supporter’s Purple Heart as a gift – has laid bare the concerns Republicans have with Trump.

Requests to Trump’s campaign for additional explanation were not returned. Trump on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that the GOP frustration was hurting his campaign. “That would be awful”, he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida. “And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign”. At the time, she called Christie’s move “an astonishing display of political opportunism”.

Buffett, who endorsed Clinton previous year, was the latest in a series of business leaders attacking Trump as Clinton seeks to woo moderate and independent voters.

Party chair Reince Priebus, a close friend of Ryan, is deeply irritated by Trump’s recent actions and his unwillingness to listen to the advice of senior advisers.

One Colorado Republican has taken his discomfort with his party’s presidential nominee to the airwaves. Another person said Trump is irritated that general election planning in battleground states isn’t further along with less than 100 days until Election Day. Clinton has maintained a 700-plus-person campaign payroll and spent $35 million on television commercials between the last week of June and last week, according to Kantar Media’s campaign advertising tracker.

While the children have made some appearances with their father – for instance, Eric Trump attended Tuesday’s rally in Virginia – work obligations and other commitments, including a hunting trip the sons have lined up, have posed scheduling conflicts.

“There has to come a point at which you say, ‘Somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world, ‘” Obama told the press during a news conference on Tuesday.