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GOP Scrambles to Distance Itself From Trump on Orlando [View all]
Source: Associated Press
GOP Scrambles to Distance Itself From Trump on Orlando
By ERICA WERNER, AP CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON — Jun 14, 2016, 3:58 PM ET
Dismayed Republicans scrambled for cover Tuesday from Donald Trump's inflammatory response to the Orlando massacre, while President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton delivered fiery denunciations that underscored the potential peril for the GOP.
Republican hopes are fading for a new, "more presidential" Trump as the party's divisions around him grow ever more acute.
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Several of Trump's fellow Republicans clearly did not agree with him. They were nearly as unsparing as the Democrats in their criticism of his boundary-pushing response Monday to the killing of 49 patrons at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, by an American-born Muslim who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group.
Among other things, Trump called for Obama to resign for failing to use the phrase "radical Islam," suggested moderate Muslims and perhaps even Obama himself might sympathize with radical elements, and expanded his call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S.
"Mr. Trump seems to be suggesting that the president is one of them, I find that highly offensive, I find that whole line of reasoning way off-base," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "Mr. Trump's reaction to declare war on the faith is the worst possible solution."
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By ERICA WERNER, AP CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON — Jun 14, 2016, 3:58 PM ET
Dismayed Republicans scrambled for cover Tuesday from Donald Trump's inflammatory response to the Orlando massacre, while President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton delivered fiery denunciations that underscored the potential peril for the GOP.
Republican hopes are fading for a new, "more presidential" Trump as the party's divisions around him grow ever more acute.
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Several of Trump's fellow Republicans clearly did not agree with him. They were nearly as unsparing as the Democrats in their criticism of his boundary-pushing response Monday to the killing of 49 patrons at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, by an American-born Muslim who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group.
Among other things, Trump called for Obama to resign for failing to use the phrase "radical Islam," suggested moderate Muslims and perhaps even Obama himself might sympathize with radical elements, and expanded his call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S.
"Mr. Trump seems to be suggesting that the president is one of them, I find that highly offensive, I find that whole line of reasoning way off-base," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "Mr. Trump's reaction to declare war on the faith is the worst possible solution."
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-clinton-offer-visions-orlando-response-39837765
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