Their son, Humayun Khan, was an USA army captain in Iraq and died in combat in 2004.
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“This is the first I’m hearing of that”, he said on Fox News Wednesday, before outlining the anti-Clinton points Trump planned to hit at a rally in Florida Wednesday afternoon. An aide to the speaker said he would not have time to meet Trump later this week, when Trump is expected to be campaigning in Wisconsin, Ryan’s home state. “I think we’ve never been this united”.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is “furious” that Donald Trump is refusing to endorse Paul Ryan, a close friend and longtime political ally.
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The message belied the chaos that has erupted in the Republican Party after the NY real estate magnate engaged for days in a public dispute with the parents of a Muslim American soldier who died in Iraq. But sources tell TWS that Priebus, whose job as party chairman it is to keep the party together and promote its candidates, has been saying these things-in private and in public-not just in order to amplify the concerns of party members but because he shares them.
Gingrich, meanwhile, told the Washington Post that he was not part of any upcoming meeting with Trump. The nominee tweeted Wednesday morning: “There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before”.
Thanks to a week with enough controversies for an entire election season, Republicans are flooding the media with reports of campaign chaos and an impending mass defection from their nominee if things don’t turn around quickly.
Several news outlets said Priebus called Trump and his top campaign advisers to discuss the situation and express his displeasure. On Tuesday, Meg Whitman, a prominent Republican fundraiser and former Hewlett-Packard executive said she would back Democrat Hillary Clinton. He adds that “the campaign is in very good shape” and blames rival Hillary Clinton for suggesting otherwise. The Clinton machine may not like it, but we are prepared for the fight. “That’s how perplexed senior Republicans leaders are”.
Trump has had a running dispute with the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan since they took the stage at last week’s Democratic National Convention.
Many Republican leaders, including Ryan and McCain, have criticized Trump’s subsequent attacks on the parents.
Priebus was the impetus for a post-2012 election defeat autopsy on the GOP that advised the party to expand its base and reach out to minorities or face declining support. The Republican leadership hopes to completely change the course of the Trump campaign.
His father, Khizr Khan, denounced Trump during the Democratic National Convention for his proposal to ban Muslims from the U.S. and questioned whether Trump had read the U.S. Constitution.
At the same time this week, Rep. Richard Hanna of NY became the first congressional Republican to announce he will support Hillary Clinton for president.
Trump has been widely criticized, including by many Republicans, for denouncing the Khans, who are Muslim-Americans.
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Fox News is told that while some are pushing for a meeting, the “intervention” may end up consisting of a series of phone conversations with the candidate.
