Now, some aren’t so sure about what to do, while others will only say, “I will support the GOP nominee”.
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The two are scheduled to meet in Washington on Thursday.
“If he wants to dictate who the nominee is” for vice president, “the delegates may not go along”, said Roger Stauter, a Cruz delegate from Madison, Wisconsin, who said he would never support Trump.
In his remarks to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Ryan has stated that “He’s the nominee”. “I just want to get to know the guy”.
“There’s going to be a lot of thinking, a lot of praying and a lot talking between all of us”, said Kay Godwin, a Cruz delegate from Blackshear, Georgia.
During a conference at Freedom Fest, a Mexican told Trump how insulted he was and asked if he would build a wall around the entire U.S. Trump asked the man if Mexico had sent him and said that he did not encourage Mexico sending rapists and criminals to the U.S. The Mexican then asked Trump if he had ever read the Statue of Liberty. He dismissed the criticism from Trump supporter Sarah Palin that he has his eye on the White House in 2020. The speaker is not exactly a good stepping stone for president. But she said Trump knows TV and expects his convention to outshine the Democrats’ in stagecraft and draw millions more viewers than usual. “I have communicated that to plenty of people”.
This, of course, is just another sign that the Republican leadership at most levels – derisively called the “establishment” by conservative detractors – can be expected to fall in line with few exceptions. The announcement left Donald Trump and John Kasich in the race. “Donald Trump is the natural evolution of a party that spent eight years honing a platform that is anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-Obama and anti-working people”, Reid said. I’ll let people at home fill in the blanks for him. Ryan isn’t in a position to tell voters that they’re wrong. On April 28, 2016, he said, “Look, my job is to help unify our party”.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus, who is also a close friend of Ryan’s, dubbed the billionaire the party’s presumptive nominee. One GOP Senator in a hot re-election race, Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey, wrote an op-ed Sunday criticizing Trump and indicating he isn’t ready to support him.
But to Trump supporters like adviser Paul Manafort, shrugging off hostility from party insiders is something Trump can afford to do. “But there’s no reason to give it right now”, he said.
But Ryan’s reluctance seemed to embolden others to withhold their support. And she vowed to work to defeat Ryan in Ryan’s GOP congressional primary this August, where he faces a businessman and first-time candidate, Paul Nehlen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma said as lawmakers returned to Washington Monday from a weeklong recess that saw Trump effectively clinch the nomination.
“I have nothing to do with that”. She’s a terrific person… Chris Christie ran for president and his main issue was entitlement reform, said it was the most important single thing. He has already said he doesn’t fancy “selling buildings” to cover that himself.
The RNC chair added: “It would be great if everything was instantaneous”.
“There are probably some who hope Trump will stick his foot in his mouth or some scandal will come out and that they’ll be able to rally everybody at that point, but at this point there’s really nothing they can do” to block his nomination, said Jason Osborne, a GOP consultant.
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But on Wednesday, CNN reported Haley was on Trump’s short list of vice presidential favorites.
