Pressure mounts on Donald Trump to step down from the presidential race

US: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is under increasing pressure from high-profile Republicans and rank-and-file voters calling for the rejection of his candidacy amid fallout from him after he said gun rights activists should stop Hillary Clinton from nominating liberal US Supreme Court justices.

In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted between August 5-8 released on Wednesday, almost one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans  want Trump dropped out of the race for the US presidency while about 10 per cent "don't know" if Trump should or not.

Former director of national intelligence under President George W Bush, John Negroponte, and former Republican US Representative Chris Shays are among those who called for him to step down from the race on Wednesday.
During an interview with MSNBC, Sgay said;

"Donald Trump lost me a long time ago."

"He does and says everything my mom and dad taught me never to say and do. He doesn't understand the basic requirements of being president of the United States. And, frankly, he's dangerous."

Clinton's campaign has created a website for Republicans and political independents to sign up in support of Clinton's presidential bid.

Trump who had been having series of controversies which includes a clash with the parents of fallen Muslim American Army Captain Humayun Khan was seeking to reset his campaign this week with an economic policy speech but his comments at Tuesday rally that ''gun rights activists could prevent Clinton from placing liberal justices on the US Supreme Court'' has outburst criticisms on social media that he was allegedly calling for Clinton's assassination.

"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks," Trump said at the rally at the University of North Carolina.

"Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know," he continued.

Clinton's campaign responded to his remarks calling it "dangerous".
But Trump's campaign said the remarks was misinterpreted adding that he was encouraging gun activists to use their political power.

"What he meant by that was you have the power to vote against her," former New York Mayor Giuliani said.

Aside the poll indicating that 19 per cent of registered Republicans want Trump to drop out, a separate Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll also revealed that some 44 per cent of 1162 registered voters believe he should exit the race.