Colorado’s Glenn says he’s ‘suspended’ Trump endorsement
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn, back, responds to questions from moderators during a televised debate with U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet.
DENVER >> Colorado’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Darryl Glenn, said Tuesday he has “absolutely” suspended his endorsement of Donald Trump over Trump’s lewd remarks about women — but he still wants to meet Trump “to know what’s in his heart” before making a final decision.
Glenn said during a debate with Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet that he believes Trump apologized for his remarks, which were captured in a 2005 recording, during Sunday’s presidential debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“What you saw on Sunday was an individual who made an apology,” Glenn said, adding, “I want to know what’s in his heart.”
Glenn, a conservative El Paso County commissioner who has embraced Trump in his campaign, has been criticized for evolving stands on Trump’s remarks, heard in a videotape disclosed last week.
He’s called them “disgusting and unacceptable,” and he said over the weekend that Trump was “simply disqualified from being commander in chief.” But this week, Glenn said he hopes to meet with the Republican presidential candidate “and give him the opportunity to share his heart and win back my vote.”
He said he’d invited Trump to come to Colorado to explain his remarks.
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No such meeting has been arranged, according to Glenn’s campaign.
Bennet, who’s seeking a second full term, pressed Glenn on the issue.
“I wonder what really changed,” Bennet said, adding that “as the father of three daughters I didn’t hear an apology.”
“I have absolutely suspended my endorsement of Donald Trump,” Glenn responded in one of the more heated exchanges of the evening.
The issue nearly overshadowed a debate in which Bennet defended his votes for the U.S. nuclear arms deal with Iran and the Affordable Care Act, and insisted that the latter be fixed to make health care premiums affordable. Glenn called for the repeal of the health care program and an end to energy policies that cost coal workers jobs.
The debate was held at History Colorado in Denver and hosted by KUSA-TV. A small crowd of protesters chanted outside to protest the exclusion of third party candidates.
Glenn’s grassroots campaign has struggled to raise funds and advertising after national Republican Party leaders, who’d once backed a rival in the GOP primary, failed to endorse him.
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Green needs to show some courage. Why he would need to kiss the ring of the Republican bigwigs who refused to support him in the primary is beyond me.
He must understand that he stands or falls on his own merits. His race is with his opponent period. Trump has nothing to do with it. Sounds like his announcement
interjecting Trump into his race in Colorado is largely an attempt to get media attention. nothing more.
Agree. One thing you can say for democrats is they remain loyal to fellow party members no matter what. They remained loyal to Bill Clinton and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy even though they both routinely assaulted women and later trashed them if they dared to speak out. Even after Sen. Kennedy went on a boozed up adulterous drive off a bridge and left the woman he was with to die in the car. And the late Sen. and former klansman Robert Byrd who remained a racist until the day he died. Or Rep. Barney Frank running a gay brothel out of his home. Republicans by contrast eat their own at the first sign of impropriety in fear of the left wing media machine.
What makes you think Chump is a real Republican?
Trump will not make time to meet Senator Glenn. Trump is too important, and has no patience for folks “like Glenn” (who aren’t smart enough to realize his brilliance and great leadership).
*Correction: Senate candidate Glenn
If any Republican candidate has an intact brain, he or she will flee from Mr. Trump.
Trump’s spreading sewage stain is swallowing up otherwise good people. Trump already lost the election, but he seems determined to damage others as he disappears into a historic loss. Trump is lost in the fog of his own imagined greatness and can’t admit that his campaign was as flawed an enterprise as other businesses he drove into the ground. He’s a loser.
Good riddance to him.
After a November 8 good riddance to you and Crooked Hilliary’s blind flock of mindless supporters.
lol but lespark there wouldn’t be any more laughs!
There is no rational excuse for any minority person to support racist Donald Trump, ever!
Donald Trump has explicitly stated his racist plan to suppress the minority vote at rallies of his overwhelmingly white backers.
He urged them to go to “certain areas” on Election Day.
“Go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen,” he said in Pennsylvania. “You know what I’m talking about.”
He told his followers that they must watch “other communities…I hear these horror shows, and we have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us and is not taken away from us. And everybody knows what I’m talking about.”
Thanks for the update on our future president. He has standing room only crowds at all his rallies. Who are these people? Something must be working.
Who are these people? Misogynists, racists, xenophobes, and poorly educated, low-information angry, older white voters who live in a fact-free bubble of misinformation and Trump lies.
Welcome to the Club…
“There is serious fallout from the newly leaked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta.
Podesta was once President Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff and then a counselor to President Barack Obama, and is now one of the most influential lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
Now, we see in an email from Podesta that Hillary Clinton hates “everyday Americans.” Podesta mentioned this in an email exchange with Jen Palmieri, Clinton’s campaign director of communications. They were debating how the phrase should be used in a New Hampshire speech in April 2015.”
Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/wikileaks-reveals-two-words-hillary-clinton-hates-anything/#ixzz4MtQWrQ9q
I read the same article and now offer help for undereducated maroons:
1) The email relates to the Clinton campaign team discussing what terms to use. Should they refer to voters as “American people,” “regular citizens,” “mainstream voters,” etc.
2) Clinton didn’t like the “Everyday American” term, or actually hated the term. So I assume they went with another term in her speeches.
3) Get a clue, MAROON!!!
True leadership starts with the heart — with character.