‘Words can have tremendous consequences’: Clinton responds to Trump’s 2nd Amendment controversy

Paulsen on Wednesday accepted the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at an Excelsior event.

“I take Trump at his word”, House said. “He does and says everything my mom and dad taught me never to say and do”. “Nobody who is seeking a leadership position, especially the presidency, the leadership of the country, should do anything to countenance violence, and that’s what he was saying”. “And, frankly, he’s unsafe”.

The goal of her speech Thursday afternoon at manufacturing company in Warren, Michigan, was to play up her focus on job development, public works projects and tax policy while trying to undercut the Republican nominee’s approach. She then noted her growing list of Republican supporters, saying they were backing her “not as Republicans, but as Americans”.

Donald Trump made the remarks about gun rights at a rally in North Carolina.

At a rally Tuesday, Trump falsely said that Clinton wanted to revoke the right to gun ownership.

“In fact, I’m told, there has been more than one conversation regarding those comments with the Trump campaign”, CNN’s Jim Sciutto said on the air.

Trump’s Republican supporters have downplayed the remarks, suggesting he was joking, or that left-leaning media outlets have intentionally inflated the story.

Trump has since defended his remark, which prompted a wave of laughs from the crowd, as a reference to the political power of the gun-rights movement.

Trump’s campaign have insisted that he meant that the gun lobby could vote as a bloc to keep out Ms Clinton.

Nevertheless, CNN host Brooke Baldwin’s first response to Trump yesterday was to reject his premise.

Earlier this week, 50 Republican national security officials had signed an open letter questioning the real estate mogul’s temperament, calling him reckless and unqualified. “If you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences”.

Trump has dismissed the defections and criticism by Republicans as an unsurprising reaction of the so-called Washington elite to his drive to change the status quo. Members of Congress are fighting their own tough reelection battles – ones that may cause them to split with Trump or be critical of the GOP nominee on occasion.