“I have committed to supporting the nominee chosen by Republican voters, and Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, is now on the verge of clinching that nomination”, McConnell said in a one-paragraph statement. Such Republicans worry about Trump’s views on immigration and foreign policy, as well as his over-the-top persona.
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Despite carrying a somber tone through portions of his speech on Wednesday, Kasich said he has found several silver linings looking back at his experience as Republican presidential candidate.
Although Kasich has been critical of Trump’s rhetoric and many of his proposals on the campaign trail, Trump insisted that he has “a very good relationship with John”.
Clinton, meanwhile, suffered a shock upset in IN as her rival Bernie Sanders mounted a come-from-behind victory, denying the former first lady and USA senator a feather in her cap as she moves closer to claim her party’s nomination.
“There’s no question” Cruz remains No. 1 in Texas despite falling to Trump nationally, says political consultant Matt Mackowiak, who’s based in the state. “I thought that I’d be going longer and she’d be going shorter”.
“I’ll be putting up money, but won’t be completely self-funding”, Trump said in an interview Wednesday evening with the Wall Street Journal, promising to create a “world-class finance organization” that would involve leaning on his personal network of wealthy friends.
Finally, Trump is sure to dredge up her husband’s numerous marital infidelities, as former President Bill Clinton was known in the 1990s for his affair with then White House intern Monica Lewinsky, plus numerous other affairs. Cruz had modeled his campaign imagining he would be the sole outsider battling an establishment Republican, not a real estate mogul and a reality TV star.
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it”, said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who also mounted an unsuccessful campaign for the nomination.
Republican callers to the radio show were outspoken.
When asked Wednesday night if he would take the “low or high road” when responding to attacks from the Clinton campaign, Trump said he could “handle the low road if I had to do that”.
Trump and Clinton also suffer from the fact that they are so well known, said Zaino. “They changed me with the stories of their lives”.
The Nebraska senator said he walked into a Walmart in his hometown Fremont one day after the in primary elections, where Trump swept all 57 delegates up for grabs and was swarmed with angry comments from constituents about the nation’s political state. The baseless accusation had been lifted from the pages of the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer.
But even though a vocal segment of the Republican Party has denounced Trump, so far few have been willing to go as far as saying they would back Clinton in the fall. “Tonight I am sorry to say it appears that the path has been foreclosed”. “She saw what was happening to him”, the source said, though “she was supportive of whatever Ted thought was best”. Trump is totally unsuited for the office he seeks, and he may now win.
“I thought I’d be really miserable and despondent”, Steel said.
Erickson, a leader of the #NeverTrump movement, told CNN that he plans more such conversations in the coming days, and that the consensus among anti-Trump conservatives is that voters who won’t support Trump or Clinton need another option.
“I’ve never been through anything like this, but it’s a lovely thing to behold”.
“A candidate can’t win without the RNC”, Priebus said.
“There are dumpster fires in my town more popular” than Trump and Clinton, he stated. And though I think the Republicans will get a shellacking in November, it is my hope that such a defeat will help to reboot the party.
It was another example of the wideranging support that this insurgent has secured in a campaign that has stunned Washington’s political elite.
Governor Charlie Baker, on the other hand, announced, “I’m not going to vote for Mr. Trump, and I sincerely doubt I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton either”.
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“With so much at stake, Donald Trump is simply too big of a risk”.
