House Speaker Paul Ryan and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump plan to meet next week in Washington, following Ryan’s announcement Thursday that he isn’t ready to endorse Trump.
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Two days after his father and brother said that they wouldn’t be making to the GOP convention this summer, Jeb announced his intention to vote for neither major-party presidential candidate, in a Facebook post that can only be described as “low-energy”.
“Weird things can happen”, Noel said, “but at this point, it doesn’t look like the party is trying to use some of those backdoor strategies”.
“I’m not compelled to unconditionally endorse Donald Trump right now”, King said.
Unless the #NeverTrump people have been hiding a mad scientist with a DeLorean in a warehouse somewhere and haven’t gotten around to telling anybody, Donald J. Trump is now the certain Republican nominee for president of the United States. “And I think it’s important for us to take seriously the statements he’s made in the past”, Obama told reporters.
“He leaves the primary campaign a disgrace – he can’t represent the people of SC well”, Trump said of Graham. “And I think we should perhaps have more than three, if you want to know the truth, because there is a lot going on”. “I will not say, I will not say that he’s ‘low energy, ‘” Trump said, reviving his memorable nickname for the former Florida governor.
“In 2012, 5 million to 8 million conservatives were not motivated by Mitt Romney enough to go to the polls”, King said.
Ted Cruz’s approach to how to handle Trump as the presumptive nominee, King said, will play a role in how he decides to proceed.
Suddenly it seemed that the Bushes were being thrown over the board, over the edge of the rail here, not unlike Donald Trump has done it. So I found that very curious.
First, he kept saying Trump would have to be a conservative nominee.
Graham tweeted on Friday that it’s “hard to believe” the choice for president will be between Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and Trump.
In a television interview, Trump said he had been surprised by Ryan’s comments.
Since then, the targets of Trump’s insults expanded to include women, African-American protesters, family members of rivals, etc.
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He named his campaign finance chief on Thursday: Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner who is chief executive of private investment firm Dune Capital Management and with whom Mr Trump worked in a business capacity in the past.
