“While Republican voters have chosen Donald Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee, my previously stated reservations about his campaign and concerns with many of his policies remain unchanged”, Rubio, who will appear Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper”, said in a statement.
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The Florida Republican sharply rebuked Trump’s arguments that the US should scale down its global presence in favor of focusing on domestic problems and argued that USA engagement around the world remains key to a healthy USA economy and national security. He’s now been declared the GOP’s presumptive nominee.
The Texas senator also said he still refuses to back Trump, saying picking a candidate “is not a choice that we as voters have to make today”.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations chairman who praised Trump’s recent foreign policy address, said he plans to support the GOP nominee, and has offered to help the campaign on foreign policy.
“If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly”. Gov. David Dewhurst in the Republican primary to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison.
On the Democratic side, a group of staffers and volunteers of Bernie Sanders, who is giving a tough fight to frontrunner Hillary Clinton, are pressing him to get out of the presidential race after the Democratic primaries and concentrate on building a national progressive organization to stop Donald Trump. They will study Trump’s biography, read excerpts from his best-seller “The Art of the Deal”, dissect some of his more controversial proposals and delve into how Trump became the presumed Republican nominee.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 11, 2016.
He added: “For Republicans, a long national nightmare still has a long way to go”.
Plus, Cruz ran away from the question about a Trump endorsement…
After bowing out the presidential race in March, Rubio returned to the Senate and said he didn’t want to be on any candidate’s ticket.
Trump scored two more primary victories Tuesday night in West Virginia and Nebraska, claiming 92 percent of the delegates he needs to clinch the nomination, according to AP’s count. Trump says he supports traditional marriage but has said the illegitimate US Supreme Court ruling imposing gay marriage on the nation “settles the issue”.
And in Indiana, Joshua Claybourn, an Evansville lawyer involved in local Republican politics, said he will relinquish an RNC delegate slot he had already secured.
That was apparent Wednesday when one of Trump’s vanquished rivals, Florida Sen. “I really think probably we’ll come out with something that’s going to be good”.
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Smith said wants students to take an objective look at why Trump has outlasted more traditional GOP presidential contenders.
