“I congratulate Donald Trump on securing his place as the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee”, Bush wrote.
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In a statement to news media, Graham said he couldn’t in good conscience support Trump “because I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to serve as commander in chief”.
“I’m not surprised at the Bush family… because I’m critical of what happened during [George W. Bush’s] term”, Trump said.
“The one thing that I’m going to really be looking for over the next six months, is that the American people are effectively informed about where candidates stand on the issues”, he said.
Republican Senator Lindsay Graham of SC also announced on Friday that he would not vote for Trump.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said he wasn’t ready to support Trump.
Romney’s vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, the current speaker of the House, said Thursday he was not there “right now” to vote for Trump.
“He’s got some work to do”, Ryan said, noting that “the bulk and the burden” was on Trump to begin the healing after a brutal primary campaign and the brash billionaire’s string of insulting remarks about other candidates, Muslims, Mexicans, refugees, women and others. “But I think what is required is that we unify this party”. “He said I’m a cancer on the Republican Party”. By classifying a popular Speaker, who took the job for the country when no one else wanted it, and former Vice Presidential candidate as “unfit” for the position? Many Republican candidates for lower offices are concerned about running on the same ballot as Donald Trump, who has alienated minority voters through his rhetoric about building a wall with Mexico and banning United States entry to Muslim travellers.
Graham voiced similar sentiments in his statement, saying he will not support Clinton or Trump.
With a growing number of prominent Republicans refusing to fall in line, Donald Trump is standing firm in his assertion that the Republican Party doesn’t have to be unified because he will gain Democratic votes to win in the fall.
Priebus said he’s confident Trump and Ryan can “work through differences”. We hope that our nominee … advances the principles of our party and appeals to a wide vast majority of Americans.
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He also took a swipe at former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who dropped out of the primary early – but has now endorsed Trump.
