A Democrat organization admitted in a recent memo Hillary Clinton is losing the support of blue-collar workers, and offered some suggestions to change her campaign strategy as the Republican Party remains divided over the rise of Donald Trump.
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FILE – Republican US presidential candidate John Kasich speaks at the California GOP convention in Burlingame, California, US, April 29, 2016.
Trump trails both Clinton and Sanders in head-to-head general election match-ups, as chronicled by Real Clear Politics.
But Thursday’s comments were all the more startling because Trump has now emerged as the party’s standardbearer and Ryan will be co-chairman of the Republican presidential nominating convention in July.
I wrote in February that Sanders should do his best to own the issue of voting rights, seeing how essential these rights are to elect the politicians he’d need for any “revolution” to take place. “The fact that I don’t add a lot of value to that dynamic is not something I take personally”, she said. When he was elected in 2008, he exemplified the conservative ideals of party leadership, but notably, not of the actual electorate. “He was the target of some of the most vicious attacks” by Trump.
“He’s more forgiving than I am”.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott’s campaign spokeswoman, Margaret Spaulding, issued a statement on the North Charleston Republican’s behalf, saying, “As (Scott) has consistently said over the past year, he will support the Republican nominee”.
Neither was a wacky idealogical zealot like Ted Cruz, or a preposterous showboat like The Donald.
“I was pinning 40 Vietnam veterans in Sioux City [Iowa] and I was halfway through when someone showed me the news on their iPhone”, King recalled.
Of course, Trump has defied history already, and it’s possible – though there’s no evidence to support it yet – that he could dramatically redraw the electoral map by winning states Republicans have not for years.
“In 2012, 5 million to 8 million conservatives were not motivated by Mitt Romney enough to go to the polls”, King said. “There are many more disillusioned by this nominee”.
He’s heard Republicans say they’re going to burn their GOP registration card.
The last Democrat to win white women in a presidential election was her husband in 1996. “You know why? Because they are closer to November, that’s why, you know”. “I don’t subscribe to that”. Depending on how you counted it, I was a little ahead or he was a little ahead.
South Carolina’s GOP-dominated congressional delegation has kept a low profile on the election front since Donald Trump became the de-facto Republican nominee for president Wednesday.
Ryan appointed King to chair a House task force on executive powers. According to Politico, McCain said at a fundraiser last month that his re-election bid “may be the race of my life” because of Trump’s vicious rhetoric about Latino immigrants. “And I want to”. “Honestly, he’s trying and I’ll tell you what, and I honestly think he understands that building and unifying and growing the party is the only way we’re gonna win”. I think that’s way overdue.
“Ryan said Trump has to “set aside bullying, set aside belittlement”.
“I have committed to supporting the nominee chosen by Republican voters, and Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, is now on the verge of clinching that nomination”, McConnell said in a one-paragraph statement. He also said “What is this about unity?”
“There’s no bigger draw, there’s no one whose endorsement means more, there’s no one who has a larger organization”, Mackowiak said.
His tweet, part-advertisement for a restaurant in the Trump Tower, part glib acknowledgement of a holiday celebrated by Mexican-Americans, drew quick condemnation on Twitter.
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“We hope that our nominee aspires to be Lincoln- and Reagan-esque”, Ryan said, and “that person advances the principals of our party and appeals to a wide, vast majority of Americans”.
