But with unfavorability ratings among the highest of any modern presidential candidate, and concern within his own party about his temperament, the real estate mogul swiftly sought to assuage concerns about how he would govern.
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“My job is to be impartial, and I’m going to do that”, she said.
“But things will be fine”.
Then there are the establishment Republicans who actively worked to stop Trump at all costs – a group that included former Bay State governor Romney, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and SC U.S. Sen. In an extraordinary effort to send the GOP contest into a contested convention, Kasich and Cruz forged an alliance in late April, going to the states where they were most likely to succeed and deprive Trump the delegates needed to reach the nomination.
“This is to me a classic case of a blustering, bullying guy who has knocked out of the way all the Republicans because they were just dumbfounded”, she said.
All these Republican insiders seem as freaked out by the possibility of a Trump victory as they are by the prospect of him losing big and dragging down GOP candidates for the Senate and the House. But Clinton already has turned her attention to the general election. He even made a very clear appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders by insisting to the Squawk anchors that the Democratic nomination process was rigged against the Vermont senator much the way he says the GOP nomination process was rigged against him. Sanders is at 1,443.
Another Republican donor, David Beightol, a Washington lobbyist who raised money this year for the presidential bid of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said he was leaning toward voting for Trump because he could not support Clinton.
When Trump says “America first”, he means “America first” – above party, above other nations, and that’s why voters love him. Trump gets 52% of white voters according to the poll, with Clinton getting 43%.
“Well, he’s a loose cannon”. “At some point when you’re running for president you actually have to put a little meat on the bones”.
Republican Sen. Don Benton, Trump’s state campaign chairman, said that it was Vance’s right to support whomever he wanted, but said that he thinks Vance’s stance clearly doesn’t reflect what Republican voters want.
A southeast Texas Republican – Cody Cunningham from Liberty County – he said he will vote for Trump but half-heartedly.
Lott said Wednesday that folks shouldn’t underestimate the appeal of Trump. Now focusing on Hillary is going to be easier.
Herbert, selected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, said he plans to vote there for Cruz because “he lines up better with the principles and the values of Utah”.
“As you see other Republicans, even national figures and national leaders coalesce around Donald Trump, that will help bring the comfort level up”.
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“We need to get behind the Republican nominee”.
