If you’ve noticed, when a candidate decides to get out of the race, he or she announces they are “suspending” their campaigns, they don’t say they are ended them.
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Of course, Ryan may yet come around on Trump; he told CNN “there’s a lot of questions conservatives are going to want answers to”.
After rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich exited the primary race earlier this week, Trump became the party’s presumptive nominee. That’s a particular concern for Ryan, who passed on running for president this year but is already being eyed for a run in 2020. So as discomfited Republican Senate candidates released statements trying to change the topic or have it both ways Wednesday, Democrats made plans to link their largely male opponents to Trump, seeking to win back control of the Senate in November by electing Democratic women from coast to coast.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is threatening a floor fight over rules and platform planks at the party’s summer convention if the Democratic National Committee stacks the committees with supporters of Hillary Clinton. He will be co-chairman of the Republican presidential nominating convention in July.
Ryan was the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2012 and is now second in line to the presidency. Former President George H.W. Bush and former President George W. Bush have said they will not endorse Trump, who savagely criticized the candidacy of George W. Bush’s brother, Jeb, and criticized George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. Searby’s group has reached out to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and James Mattis, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, among others, but both declined after discussions.
Chris Vance, the expected Republican challenger for Sen. Kristol has had warm words for him.
With 1,086 delegates, Trump has 86 percent of the delegates needed to clinch the nomination. But he says that person should be someone other than him.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Big-name GOP leaders piled on Friday against Donald Trump in an extraordinary show of Republican-vs.-Republican discontent over his winning the party’s presidential nomination.
But as a Libertarian, Johnson holds views on some issues, such as the legalization of marijuana, that are antithetical to the views of some Republicans. Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania said Trump has “a great deal of work to do to convince many Americans, myself included, that he is prepared and able to lead this great nation”.
He walked the “neutrality” back in his speech in March to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, but his peregrinations on foreign policy (hawk? dove? anything?), his lack of political and policy experience, his appeals to nativist, isolationist voters and his broadsides against Muslims, Hispanics and women continue to chill some conservatives, many Jews among them.
After Trump won the IN primary Tuesday, Texas Sen. Its deadline is Monday. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Mark Kirk of IL and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
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“A third-party candidate is a pipe dream”, said Republican strategist Tony Fratto, who worked in Bush’s administration and strongly opposes Trump. “We’re going to win”. “It won’t be close”.
