Trump refuses to endorse leading Republicans as cracks within party grow

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump has ignited tensions within the Republican Party by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senator John McCain &&num;8211&semi; a remarkable display of party division just three months before Election Day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Republican presidential nominee told The Washington Post he is &&num;8220&semi;just not quite there yet&&num;8221&semi; when asked about an endorsement of Mr Ryan&comma; who faces a primary election next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In doing so&comma; he echoed the House Speaker&&num;8217&semi;s comments of almost three months earlier&comma; when the Wisconsin congressman was initially reluctant to embrace Mr Trump as his party&&num;8217&semi;s standard bearer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s statement comes amid intense fallout over his criticism of the family of the late Captain Humayun Khan&comma; a US Army soldier who died in Iraq in 2004&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;advertisement<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just two weeks after a Republican National Convention that tried to focus on party unity&comma; the Trump-driven rifts inside the GOP appear to be intensifying&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Tuesday&comma; retiring New York Representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican member of Congress to say he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November instead of Mr Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;He is unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Hanna wrote in a column published in The Post-Standard newspaper of Syracuse&comma; New York&period; &&num;8220&semi;He is unrepentant in all things&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hewlett-Packard executive Meg Whitman &&num;8211&semi; a prominent Republican fundraiser &&num;8211&semi; also threw her support behind Mrs Clinton&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the woman who helped shape New Jersey Govenor Chris Christie&&num;8217&semi;s national image declared that she is voting for Mrs Clinton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As someone who has worked to further the Republican Party&&num;8217&semi;s principles for the last 15 years&comma; I believe that we are at a moment where silence isn&&num;8217&semi;t an option&comma;&&num;8221&semi; former Christie senior aide Maria Comella told CNN&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They join dozens of high-profile GOP leaders who have previously said they would not vote for Trump&comma; including the party&&num;8217&semi;s 2012 nominee&comma; Mitt Romney&comma; and former Florida Gov&period; Jeb Bush&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Veterans and families of fallen soldiers continue to call on Trump to apologise for his treatment of the Khan family&comma; who spoke out against Mr Trump at last week&&num;8217&semi;s Democratic National Convention&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said the grieving father had &&num;8220&semi;no right&&num;8221&semi; to criticise him&comma; only later acknowledging their son is a hero&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If &commat;realDonaldTrump wants to be the Commander in Chief&comma; he needs to act like one&period; And that can&&num;8217&semi;t start until he apologizes to the Khans&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Dakota Meyer&comma; one of a handful of living Medal of Honor recipients and former Alaska Govenor Sarah Palin&&num;8217&semi;s son-in-law&comma; wrote on Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump invited more tension on Tuesday when he told The Washington Post he is not ready to endorse Ryan in next week&&num;8217&semi;s Republican primary contest against Paul Nehlen&comma; praising the underdog for running &&num;8220&semi;a very good campaign&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tensions were already running high between the two high-profile Republicans&comma; who will have to work together closely should Mr Trump win the presidency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Ryan&&num;8217&semi;s campaign spokesman Zack Roday said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s endorsement&period; And we are confident in a victory next week regardless&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed78e4b068e">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; 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