Republican Leaders Pile on Trump Over ‘Mexican’ Judge Attack
The furor caps a week of Trump struggling to pivot to a general-election strategy against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Republican leaders are piling on presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump over his accusation that a U.S. federal judge is treating him unfairly because the judge is of Mexican ancestry.
In the latest backlash, Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who’s facing a tough re-election race, said Monday that Trump’s “comments are offensive and wrong and he should retract them.” Senator Susan Collins, a moderate from Maine, said his remarks “are absolutely unacceptable.” John Kasich, who ran against Trump for president and governs the November battleground state of Ohio, said Trump should apologize, and former White House hopeful Marco Rubio, a Florida senator, also denounced the attacks.