What Would It Take For Ryan To Rescind His Trump Endorsement?
The federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel is a native-born American of Mexican descent. If you, the country’s highest ranking Republican, accuse your party’s nominee of racism but continue supporting him, then you are announcing that the Republican Party finds racism tolerable.
Hours after Trump won the IN primary last month – which gave him the path to the Republican nomination – Warren tweeted that Trump “built his campaign on racism, sexism, and xenophobia”. But Trump has been meeting with social conservative leaders and his Friday speech seemed to indicate he’s taken their concerns to heart.
Hispanics themselves widely viewed the remarks as racist (69% to 15%), while whites were divided with 43% saying it was racist and 40% saying it was not.
Trump, for his part, said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference that his remarks had been “misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage” but at no point walked them back or apologized.
Full poll results and margin of error can be found here.
“I’ll vote for Donald Trump, absolutely, not a question”, Welch said in the interview. Most observers, including a number of Republicans, have slammed Trump for saying Judge Curiel can not be impartial in the proceedings because of his ethnic heritage and ties to Hispanic organizations.
The new website offers Mr. Trump’s female fans a pledge of support to sign, with an emphasis on the presumptive GOP nominee’s “brains, drive and determination”, among other qualities.
And Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said that Trump’s attacks on Curiel were “not just ill-informed or ignorant statements, but they suggest that when he’s president after November, that perhaps he ought to go after that judge … And that is just one of the many reasons why he will never be president”, Warren said in the scathing broadside also aimed at the top two Republicans in Congress. “They own her”, he said. “Do I think Hillary Clinton is the answer?”
“Rarely do we see a presidential candidate who is so willing to engage in sexist rhetoric”, Jennifer Lawless, an expert on women in politics at American University in Washington, said of Trump.
“Donald Trump is hopeful”, said Scott, whose support of Trump has generated running mate speculation. Also, it misdiagnoses the problem many have with Donald Trump as a political candidate.