While Washington State Republican Party leaders call for unity, a number of prominent local Republicans say they won’t support Donald Trump.
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The likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, has her share of weaknesses, as well. Even if their hearts are not in it.
Pointing to Trump as a “loose cannon we can not afford”, Clinton said in 2008 she knew “that whatever differences we might have had in the campaign, they were nothing compared to the differences between us and the Republicans”.
The reaction of congressional Republicans to Donald Trump’s ascension ranged from subdued to silent on Wednesday, a day after the billionaire TV personality was all but anointed as the party’s presidential nominee.
The only goal that unites this Republican Party is the desire to defeat Hillary Clinton.
Trump and Ryan have publicly clashed in the past.
Some Republicans fear Trump’s poor standing with those voters will not only cost the party the White House for a third straight term but the GOP’s Senate majority as well.
A deeper look at the numbers finds Trump losing white women by 2 points, a group that Romney won by 14 points. “The Rolling Stones have never given permission to the Trump campaign to use their songs and have requested that they cease all use immediately”, read a statement. He added, “I think it is good for the United States of America, good for the Democratic Party, to have a vigorous debate, to engage people in the political process”. “What a lot of Republicans want to see is that we have a standard bearer that bears our standards”.
He expects the Clinton types will win a party struggle with the more socialist left, and eventually be joined by Bush types in a cosmopolitan, pro-business Democratic party. “I will fill out the rest of my ballot for every other Republican candidate”.
Trump made that claim this week on “Fox & Friends”, reciting an article in the National Enquirer that claims a 1963 photo proves Ted Cruz’s father Rafael had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Not all Republicans are willing to fall in line. Sen.
Most elected Republicans or candidates who chose to endorse a presidential candidate backed Kasich, who was fighting a long-shot battle to win the nomination in a contested convention. #NeverTrump forces poured millions of dollars into ads in IN as a last-ditch effort to stop him, an aim that would be for naught.
As Donald Trump appeared to secure the Republican nomination for the 2016 general election following the dropouts of his closest opponents, reactions from local political party leaders have varied from excitement to trepidation.
State Rep. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala Republican running for the Florida Senate in a strongly Republican district, said he thought much of the anger behind the #NeverTrump movement would begin to cool with time.
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A spokesman for former President George W. Bush said yesterday that he would not be attending and a spokesman for his former President George H.W. Bush said he would not attend either.
