Embattled White House hopeful Donald Trump lashed out at \u201cdisloyal\u201d Republicans in a ranting tweetstorm Tuesday, saying they are to blame if his faltering campaign comes up short.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n
Relations between the Trump campaign and party leaders have always been difficult, but they have soured considerably since Democrat Hillary Clinton began to pull away in the polls two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
The final straw for many elected Republicans was the emergence of a video in which Trump bragged about groping women. That prompted a string of disavowals and endorsement withdrawals.<\/p>\n
Trump further alienated allies by bringing up unproven abuse allegations against former president Bill Clinton in a Sunday debate watched by tens of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s angry response seems to have been prompted by Ryan suggesting fellow Republicans stop defending the party nominee and focus on limiting electoral losses in Congress.<\/p>\n
In a conference call on Monday, Ryan told congressional Republicans \u201cyou all need to do what\u2019s best for you in your district,\u201d according to one person who listened in.<\/p>\n
Trump began the two hour cyber outburst by claiming \u201cpolls\u201d had shown him to be the winner of the debate.<\/p>\n
In fact, most scientific polls showed voters believed Hillary Clinton to be the clear winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n
He followed up by saying: \u201cOur very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democrats \u201chave always proven to be far more loyal to each other than the Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an ominous sign for Republicans who are worried about losing control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and the survival of the party, Trump sounded a belligerent note.<\/p>\n
\u201cDisloyal R\u2019s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don\u2019t know how to win\u2014I will teach them!\u201d<\/p>\n
The latest Real Clear Politics polling average has Clinton ahead by 6.5 points across the country, and the latest polls show her ahead in a slew of must-win states for Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s campaign has long had a no holds barred quality\u2014he has accused Mexican immigrants of being rapists and Muslims of being a terror threat.<\/p>\n
But the break with Republicans and the embrace of Bill Clinton\u2019s women accusers\u2014who he invited to attend Sunday\u2019s debate\u2014may signal the start of an even more vitriolic and personal campaign.<\/p>\n
An unsparing Trump campaign ad released Monday showed Hillary Clinton when she had pneumonia last month, coughing at the dais and stumbling as she tried to get into her motorcade after a 9\/11 anniversary ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cHillary Clinton doesn\u2019t have the fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world,\u201d the narrator says.<\/p>\n
Also Monday, Trump suggested to a mostly white audience in Philadelphia, which has a large African-American population, that the election may be \u201cstolen\u201d by \u201cother communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clinton\u2019s campaign will be eager to tether the whole Republican Party to Trump\u2019s harsh message\u2014which is popular with the party base but appears to have little appeal with the wider public.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomewhat of a civil war is breaking out in the Republican Party,\u201d said Clinton communications director Jen Palmieri. \u201cBut I think that Donald Trump didn\u2019t become the nominee of his party on his own.\u201d<\/p>\n
She accused elected Republicans of helping to \u201clegitimize him,\u201d adding \u201cI think they have a lot to answer for and the voters I imagine will hold them accountable (in) House and Senate races.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clinton herself will revive the Clinton-Gore 1992 White House ticket on Tuesday, campaigning in Miami with her husband\u2019s vice president Al Gore.<\/p>\n
Gore has been largely absent from politics since he lost the 2000 race in Florida to George W. Bush.<\/p>\n
His comeback in the Sunshine State is likely to focus on the \u201chigh stakes of November\u2019s election\u201d and climate change, which Gore has spent his post White House years working on.<\/p>\n
Clinton will have another potent surrogate out on the campaign trail Tuesday when President Barack Obama travels to Greensboro, North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Embattled White House hopeful Donald Trump lashed out at “disloyal” Republicans in a ranting tweetstorm Tuesday, saying they are to blame if his faltering campaign comes up short. Declaring himself unchained from party strictures, the bombastic real estate mogul publicly berated party big-wig Paul Ryan—the speaker of the House of Representatives—as a “weak and ineffective leader.” “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to” Trump tweeted. Relations between the Trump campaign and party leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}