Adelson’s willingness to make a huge political investment helps explain why his signature group has attracted all of the major GOP presidential candidates to its forum in Washington – even though the man himself wasn’t among the hundreds in attendance.
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The Republican front-runner said his concerns are greater regarding “one side in particular”.
“A lot has to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal – whether or not Israel wants to sacrifice certain things”, he said. “He’s done nothing. I don’t think he cares about them”. Therefore, you’re probably not going to support me.
Former President George W. Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer found this assertion “offensive” and a “woeful misread” of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
He further irritated the crowd by refusing to say whether Jerusalem should serve as the capital of Israel – an issue important to the group. Ben Carson challenged him but appears to be fading.
42 percent said Trump is the candidate who would be most effective at solving the country’s problems, three times his nearest rival. “We do not want to reengage the “war on women” fight so isolate Trump on this issue by offering a quick condemnation of it”.
Still, the billionaire businessman who has made his skills as a dealmaker a key piece of his pitch to voters was visibly enthusiastic about the prospect of tackling the intractable foreign policy challenge. Trump asked. “Do me a favor, just relax, OK”.
Republicans also think Trump has the best shot at winning the general election, according to the poll.
“You really want to win this election?”
The internal NRSC memo, first reported this week by The Washington Post, offered a striking and rare glimpse into how the party is making concrete preparations to handle a Trump nomination.
“When the president stands up and says the Islamic State isn’t Islamic, that’s just nutty”, he said to some laughter.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee seemed to target Trump when he mentioned that some in his party support the “head-scratching” proposal that Mideast peace is possible only if Israel and the Palestinians both come to the table.
Trump sat down and shared his views on Israel in an AP Conversation – a series of extended interviews with the 2016 candidates to become the nation’s 45th president. Cook suggested that many conservatives “are working through various stages of alienation and anger that is manifesting itself for now in support for Trump and Carson”, a process he likened to the five stages of grief described by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
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Nevertheless, party leaders are beginning to lay out contingency plans for a Trump victory. The decline follows Trump’s comments after the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people, where he told an NBC news reporter that he would require all Muslims within the United States to be registered to a special database, which his critics have pointed out to be eerily similar to the mandatory registration of Jews in Nazi Germany.
