Republican lawmakers, operatives and donors grappled with whether to support Donald Trump, who effectively clinched his party’s presidential nomination this week after his two remaining rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, dropped out of the White House race.
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“He is a loose cannon, and loose cannons tend to misfire”, Clinton said of Trump in an interview with CNN.
This July, hundreds of prominent Republicans will descend upon Cleveland for the Republican National Convention.
Jeb Bush was one of the most vocal critics of Trump on the campaign trail.
Meanwhile, Washington State Republican Party Chairman Susan Hutchison said WSRP “doesn’t tell anyone how to vote” but went on to say the Party “supports the Republican to defeat Hillary Clinton”.
Bush’s father and brother, former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have also declined to endorse the presumptive nominee.
“I am confident that I can unite much of it, some of it I don’t want”, Mr Trump said on NBC’s Today show. “We are suspending our campaign”.
His new status of presumptive GOP nominee caps a year of revolt against the party establishment, which grew to include his nearest rival, Sen.
Mr. Trump also has spurred record Republican primary participation.
Donald Trump is now the all-but-inevitable Republican nominee and he started his first day by announcing he will renege on one of the core tenants of his campaign.
But at least a few Republicans said they refuse to support Trump, even though his path to the GOP nomination has cleared. She said Trump’s critics within the GOP can back a third-party candidate, write in a candidate or simply not cast a vote.
The shocked establishments of both the Democrats and Republicans must now confront the very real possibility of a Trump presidency.
Party loyalists have been appalled by the bombastic, bullying style of the former reality-television star, his denigrating comments about women, and his proposals to build a wall on the border with Mexico and deport 11 million illegal immigrants.
“When it comes to cutting business deals”, Larson told his audience, “I don’t think anybody ever gets the better of a business deal with Donald Trump”.
“I’m really focused on moving into the general election”, Clinton said confidently on Tuesday in West Virginia.
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But the only thing Trump could do to make me reconsider voting for him for President is if he promised to put Cruz on the Supreme Court. While there’s speculation about a third party candidate, raising money to run a viable campaign, they admit, would be tough.
