Rubio said the conflicting feelings and views of Trump as the party nominee is one that is haunting many Republicans across the country.
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If given a “stay-at-home” option, the poll found 6 percent would not vote, and Clinton and Trump would tie with 38 percent each. That’s how Boehner put it during remarks Thursday at a conference of finance industry leaders in Las Vegas. But Ryan, the U.S. House of Representatives speaker, has withheld his endorsement of Trump out of concern over his incendiary tone and policy ideas that run counter to deeply held Republican doctrine.
Some were willing to let the process with Ryan and Trump play out.
“Even if Donald Trump brings chaos to this party, that’s better than Hillary Clinton bringing destruction to this Constitution”, Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks said.
“Trump may have a unique ability to run a campaign on a lot less money”, said Brian Ballard, a leading Republican fundraiser from Florida who raised money for Jeb Bush and later Marco Rubio and is now ready to start raising money for Trump.
The surprisingly fervent show of unity capped a remarkable week that began with Ryan, the GOP’s top elected office-holder and its 2012 vice presidential nominee, turning his back on his party’s presumptive presidential nominee just days after Trump had effectively clinched the nomination.
Several residents here said they were just fine with Ryan, who said last week that he was “just not ready” to support Trump yet, a comment that riled the candidate to the point of hinting that he’d seek Ryan’s ouster as chair of the Republican National Convention. What he says is what they say, and now people can see the connection between them.
He’s moving away from the model Obama used successfully in his 2008 and 2012 wins, and the one that likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is trying to replicate, including hiring numerous staff that worked for Obama. He believes Trump could have a “really dramatic effect on some of these Senate races”.
The two also issued a joint statement in which they pledged to work together to beat Clinton. “That is why it’s critical that Republicans unite around our shared principles, advance a conservative agenda, and do all we can to win this fall”, the statement reads.
But ahead of Ryan’s Thursday meeting with Donald Trump, they concede he’s unlikely to succeed in tempering the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. And after Thursday’s meeting, patience will wear thin among many in his party.
Trump then headed to meet with Senate Republican leadership before he departs Washington around 2 p.m.
The head of the Republican Party says the meeting with Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan was “a very positive step toward party unity”.
Priebus tweeted: “The meeting was great”.
Vince Powers, the state’s Democratic chairman, predicted Wednesday that Trump will dampen Republican turnout and drive away minority support in the 2nd Congressional District – a largely urban area that includes Omaha and its suburbs. “Of course if that changed we would reconsider things”, Cruz said Tuesday, to a Senate packed with reporters and TV cameras. Trump was made by the media, and now the media will destroy him.
After working on Trump’s vice-presidential vetting team, probably one of the most important jobs of a campaign, Carson is exiting stage left to concentrate on something else. In March, Utah voters went big for Trump’s chief rival at the time, Texas Sen.
“I am in the “not no” column”, Gingrich said.
It’s a “circus out here”.
Trump entered the RNC building, the venue a few blocks from the Capitol, through a side door as about a dozen protesters who oppose his immigration positions demonstrated at the front, chanting “Down, down with deportation”.
Aaron Severson, a 35-year-old Janesville resident, bashed Ryan for speaking critically of Trump before meeting with him.
For Trump, the remaining drama is over party discord, not the primaries. They were not allowed inside.
Separately, the Republican National Committee has invested heavily in data operations, eager to avoid another defeat to a more technologically savvy Democratic candidate.
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Earlier in the day, T. Boone Pickens, a billionaire oil investor, said it’s time to “try somebody different” as the GOP presidential nominee, whose unorthodox bid has given other major GOP donors pause.
