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2016-08-03 Home Front: Politix
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Democrats pile on, urge GOP to dump Trump
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 [POLITICO] With Donald Trump mired in yet another round of controversy, Democrats are turning up the heat on their GOP colleagues, urging them to turn their backs on the Republican presidential nominee once and for all.
Calls from Democrats for Republicans to abandon Trump are nothing new, but the candidate’s recent spat with the parents of a Moslem-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004 has increased the volume. After Khizr Khan delivered a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention honoring his fallen son and criticizing Trump, the Manhattan billionaire responded by insinuating that the dear departed captain’s mother had been forbidden to speak and accusing the father of "viciously" attacking him.
The fallout was swift, severe and bipartisan -- Trump’s comments were quickly disavowed by an array of Republican leaders, and none more strongly than Sen.  John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution ...
(R-Ariz.), who released a scathing statement in which the former Navy pilot and POW said, "I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates."
But for Democrats eager to seize the political moment, even statements like McCain’s are no longer enough.
At a Tuesday news conference alongside visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, President Barack Obama
Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back ...
called Trump "unfit to serve as president" and "woefully unprepared to do this job." The president highlighted Trump’s feud with the Khan family as only the most recent evidence supporting those assertions, but also took time to mention the Manhattan billionaire’s lack of "basic knowledge around critical issues" on foreign policy.
Obama then challenged top Republicans like McCain, House Speaker Paul Ryan
...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies...
and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to go further than the occasional one-off criticism of Trump.
"The question I think that they have to ask themselves is: If you are repeatedly having to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?" Obama said. "What does this say about your party, that this is your standard-bearer?" 
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