“This is not a reality show”.
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“We managed to go and do the one thing that was previously unimaginable, which is nominate someone more polarising than Hillary Clinton”, Madden said.
“I have no thoughts on Mr. Trump’s tweets. We cannot-we’ve had enough of Clinton”, he told the crowd.
Seeking to tie Republicans hesitant to support Trump to their candidate anyway, Obama called Trump the party’s standard-bearer and challenged party loyalists to consider what voting for him would mean. Ryan, concerned not the least with retaining Republican majorities in Congress, said he still wondered whether Trump would espouse conservative principles of limited government, and the two agreed to meet next week in Washington. Former Texas Sen. Rick Perry, who once blasted Trump as a “cancer on conservatism” now says he will support his campaign.
“I think it’s going to work out”, Priebus told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Trump said earlier he was taken aback by Ryan’s rebuke.
Still, Obama took advantage of the split among Republican leaders over whether to endorse Trump, the party outsider who has himself alternately pledged loyalty to the party and threatened to leave it behind should he perceive himself to be treated unfairly.
Senator Lindsey Graham became the latest establishment Republican to join the growing “anything but Trump” chorus.
“As for me, I absolutely will not support Hillary Clinton for president”. At least 7 in 10 Hispanics said words including honest, civil, compassionate, competent and likable don’t describe Trump even slightly well.
Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, has stressed the burden is on Trump to begin the healing process within his fractured party. “Wrong, I didn’t inherit it, I won it with millions of voters!”
RNC officials sent a draft of a joint fundraising proposal to the Trump campaign on Thursday that details how they would divide donations between the campaign, the national committee, the national convention committee and several state parties. “Sometimes in our party, we get criticized because we don’t hit hard enough”, Priebus said, adding ominously: “I don’t think that Donald Trump’s going to have a hard time bringing out some of the things that are going to be very not good for Hillary Clinton”.
“Eating a taco or wearing a sombrero doesn’t cut it w/our community in 2016”, Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization, said on Twitter.
Clinton, who leads a resilient Bernie Sanders in their Democratic nomination battle but has yet to seal the deal, has already pivoted to attacking Trump, calling him a “loose cannon” and saying Americans can’t risk electing him commander in chief.
In his first comments on Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee, Obama also warned of the high stakes for a country facing “serious times” and in need of a leader for a “serious job”.
But Trump made clear later Thursday that he won’t be waiting around.
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“And that runs the risk of creating a Goldwater kind of moment where the party really does split”, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told The Associated Press, referring to the 1964 Republican presidential nominee whose candidacy divided the GOP and was followed by a big Democratic victory.
