After footage of Trump claiming he’s a “unifier”, the campaign video features a who’s who of 2016 GOP dropouts torching the billionaire, with clips of Sen. “We not only have to work for comprehensive immigration reform, we have to recognise that the kind of language coming from Donald Trump is hateful, and we need to repudiate it”, he said amidst cheers from the audience.
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“I’m not going to be voting this year”, he said.
Former governor of Florida Jeb Bush added his name to the laundry list of Republicans who have publicly stated they would not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the general election this fall. “And his views on defense and foreign policy are naïve and unsafe”, Vance wrote”.
After John Kasich suspended his campaign Wednesday and Ted Cruz bowing out the night before, Donald Trump officially became the last man standing in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination.
Ryan announced Friday that he and other members of the House Republican leadership will meet with Trump Thursday morning.
The back-and-forth came a day after Mr Ryan injected new uncertainty into the turbulent presidential contest by refusing, for now, to endorse Mr Trump.
The Democratic Party front-runner’s campaign believes Trump’s historically high unfavorable ratings and penchant for controversy may be enough to persuade a slice of GOP voters to get behind her bid, in much the same way so-called Reagan Democrats sided with the Republican president in the 1980s.
In April, he said there is “zero chance” of becoming vice president, to anyone – specifically Mr Trump – arguing that he’s more of a president, not a vice president.
Of course, not all OR conservatives are in Trump’s camp.
The Clinton and Trump fight sets of something unprecedented in U.S. history: both are widely unpopular.
The big question now, says “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson, is if the Republican party will rally behind Trump. The speaker and Trump will hold a separate meeting with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
While some analysts have said that Trump has “wide support” among Hasidim, in Trump’s home state of NY, 77 percent of Jews in NY have an unfavorable view of him, a recent poll showed.
“The sooner Republicans are unified behind Trump, the greater advantage Republicans will gain over Hillary Clinton”, said Assemblyman Matthew Harper, R-Huntington Beach, who’d been backing Cruz.
This is not an endorsement for the presumptive GOP nominee. He took on Ryan on Twitter Friday, saying: “Paul Ryan said that I inherited something very special, the Republican Party”.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders vows to remain in the primary race “until the last vote is cast” in June.
