This week, after Donald Trump said that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge in a case against Trump University, had a conflict of interest because of his Mexican heritage, many Republicans distanced themselves from Trump and condemned the candidate’s remarks.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said that Trump’s statement was “the textbook definition of a racist comment.” Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, said that it was “the most un-American thing from a politician since Joe McCarthy,” and that Republicans who previously backed Trump should rescind their endorsements. One Republican senator, Mark Kirk, of Illinois, followed Graham’s advice and took back his support, on Tuesday. Congressman Bill Flores, of Texas, who chairs the Republican Study Committee, a House policy group with a large membership, said that he wasn’t prepared to endorse Trump. “I was incredibly angry to see Mr. Trump question a judge’s motives because of his ethnicity,” Flores said in a statement.
But no matter how much they have condemned Trump, none of these high-ranking Republicans have said that they would consider supporting his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. For the full article click here
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