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“There has to be a point in which you say: ‘This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party'”.
Whitman was the national finance co-chair of Republican New Jersey candidate Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign before he dropped out and endorsed Trump.
Trump has had a running dispute with the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan since they took the stage at last week’s Democratic National Convention. Trump criticized Ghazala Khan for her silence, asking whether or not she was even allowed to speak.
“Trump’s reckless and uninformed positions on critical issues – from immigration to our economy to foreign policy – have made it abundantly clear that he lacks both the policy depth and sound judgment required as president”, Whitman said in a statement released Tuesday night.
News says that Trump’s behavior over the past few days has become so undisciplined and erratic that former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House speaker Newt Gingrich are being called on to meet personally with the former reality television star in hopes of restoring some order and decorum to his campaign.
Trump has been widely criticized, including by many Republicans, for denouncing the Khans, who are Muslim-Americans.
Trump has come under fire from within and without his party for his comments regarding the Khans.
Manafort says of Trump’s spat with the family: “We’ve put it behind us”. She is close to Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee; has deep ties to the country’s business elite; and is a rare female Republican executive in Silicon Valley.
At this point, it’s unclear why Republican leaders might think that Trump will listen to Giuliani and Gingrich – or to anyone for that matter – but desperate times call for desperate measures, and it is hard to imagine a party in more desperate straits than the GOP right now.
Congressman Richard Hanna went one step further, becoming the first Republican lawmaker to say he will vote for Trump’s opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, in November. “The primary process is geared toward the party’s political base, which ignores the fact that we have largely alienated women, Hispanics, the LGBT community, young voters and many others in general”.
Trump’s week has been dominated by his criticism of Muslim parents whose son was killed in the Iraq War and his refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen.
Hollande criticized Trump’s “hurtful and humiliating comments”.
“When you question a mother’s pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us”, the letter read.
“Three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons.at one point he asked “if we have them, why can’t we use them”, Mr Scarborough said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday. The story should be how much ground we’ve made up so fast’.