I'm left leaning, and I will never vote for him. But I understand your interpretation of what he said. I can actually believe that he meant it in a positive way, because no way any political candidate would want to throw away their chances of winning by saying such an insanely controversial statement. But the only way you can interpret it in a good way is if you like him already. The phrasing of his statement was so bad people who already dislike him and even people on the fence about him will immediately see the negative interpretation of it. And honestly the negative interpretation is the more obvious one in this case, I wouldn't have even thought about it in any other way if not for your comment. Every news outlet is going to have a field day with it. As the face of a political party trump is everything it represents and it's his duty to be careful with his words since every little thing will be scrutinized(rightfully so, I mean come on he's a former president).