Trump mocks Romney on ‘trickle-down racism’ jibe

Bloomberg

Donald Trump returned to the combative form that helped him win the US Republican presidential nomination, slamming Democrats, calling for his party to unite behind him, and responding to Mitt Romney’s suggestion that his election could lead to “trickle-down racism.”
At a rallyin Tampa, Florida, the presumptive Republican nominee termed himself “the least racist person that you have ever met” and knocked Romney, as he’s done before, for losing to President Barack Obama as the Republican nominee in the 2012 election. Later, in Pittsburgh, he stirred the crowd by saying that Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, plans to limit access to guns.
Romney said on CNNthat electing Trump could fundamentally change the nature of the US “Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America,” Romney said.
“Don’t forget, this guy let us down. He choked and he let us down,” Trump said in Tampa of Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and private equity firm executive.
After enduring days of criticism from Republican congressional leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan for his complaints that a US judge of Mexican heritage was biased because of ethnicity, Trump said it was time for the party to get behind him.
“The Republicans have to stick together and they have to be smart,” he said. “The Republicans have to be tough because we have the better ideas. And my ideas are better than any of them.”
The weekend events—including a rally Friday night in Richmond, Virginia, and a second event on Saturday at Pittsburgh International Airport—were Trump’s first since he spoke in more measured terms about his campaign platform on Thursday, using a teleprompter.
The billionaire political novice needed no prompting to deliver barbs at Clinton, whom he termed “very crooked” at the Tampa rally. In Pittsburgh he told supporters that Clinton wants to repeal the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms.
“On that issue alone, I think we win the election. I really do,” Trump said. Clinton supports gun-control measures, none involving the Second Amendment.

Republican deploy volunteers to boost Trump

Bloomberg

The Republican National Committee is dispatching some 5,000 volunteers in 14, the party’s first national day of training for the 2016 election, chairman ReincePriebus said.
Since the presumptive Republican nominee’s organization remains a fledgling effort, the party is picking up the slack, coordinating with the Trump campaign and local officials across the nation.
The volunteers will knock on more doors Saturday than in all of June 2012—about 77,000, Lindsay Walters, an RNC spokeswoman, told Bloomberg Politics.