Trump says campaign united despite backlash
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REPUBLICAN Donald Trump insisted yesterday that his White House campaign was unified, even as he faced a strong backlash from some in his party over his insistent criticism of the family of a dead American soldier.
“There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before. I want to thank everyone for your tremendous support. Beat Crooked H!” the Republican nominee wrote on Twitter yesterday, referring to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
The message belied the chaos that has erupted in the Republican Party after the New York real estate magnate engaged for days in a public dispute with the parents of the Muslim US soldier who died in Iraq.
The uproar has led many Republicans to distance themselves from Trump and voice support for the Khan family.
Several media outlets reported yesterday that the campaign was in disarray and that Trump had rejected advice from his staff to drop the battle with the Khans.
Trump hit back on Tuesday at critics in the Republican leadership and denied both House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain support in their re-election bids, in an interview with The Washington Post.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was “quite furious” with Trump’s handling of the Khan situation and his failure to endorse Ryan comments, a Republican source said.
ABC News reported that senior party officials were looking into options for the November 8 election if Trump decided to drop out of the race.
The Trump campaign had no immediate comment on the reports. Trump loyalist Corey Lewandowski dismissed reports on Tuesday evening of dissent and disarray in Trump’s camp.
“These people would climb over barbed wire for Donald Trump, chew on glass to make sure that they get him elected,” Lewandowski, who was fired from the campaign in June, told CNN.
But yesterday, an unidentified Trump campaign source told MSNBC the unrest inside the campaign was “way worse than people realize.”
Late on Tuesday, Meg Whitman, a prominent Republican fundraiser and chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, endorsed Clinton’s White House bid, calling Trump an “authoritarian character” and a threat to democracy.
In an interview with The New York Times, Whitman said it was time “to put country first before party.”
Trump has had a running dispute with Khizr and Ghazala Khan since they took the stage at last week’s Democratic National Convention to cite their son’s sacrifice and criticize Trump’s proposal to combat terrorism by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States.
Many Republican leaders, including Ryan and McCain, have criticized Trump’s attacks on the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who received the Bronze Star Medal after being killed in a car bomb in Iraq in 2004.
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