Indeed, while many Republicans harshly dislike Trump, analysts said the party will eventually fall in line and back the nominee, as the alternative would be losing the White House to Democrats for the third term in a row.
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“It takes time”, Ryan said of bringing together the differing factions of the Republican party.
Ryan, who earned a degree in economics and political science at Miami University of OH, has been a member of the conservative movement for more than two decades.
The flip side of that coin is that this very same RNC and GOP leadership now needs Trump if they want to reclaim the White House. It DOES matter if the Speaker of the House isn’t on board. Why?
Though Bernie Sanders won the primary in IN and is now looking onward to a large base of support in California, the solidifying idea of a Trump presidency has spurred a Twitter war among voters who feel that they will face the choice between Clinton and Trump.
What’s really surprising about so many major Republican leaders openly refusing to support Donald Trump is that there seems to be little stigma attached to their apostasy. In addition, swing district GOP lawmakers worry that Trump’s hard-line statements on Hispanics and comments about women’s appearances will imperil their re-election prospects. Lindsey Graham of SC have said they won’t endorse Trump or vote for him. Yet it’s his job to chair the convention that nominates Trump.
And lately, Trump has taken to describing his policy proposals as merely “suggestions”.
The chairman of Trump’s foreign policy committee Sen.
But the second set of concerns – about Trump’s tone and language and divisiveness- may be tougher for Ryan to swallow, given how different their political styles and voices are.
Despite outstanding differences, Trump appeared to strike a delicate peace with the party establishment that he was so quick to attack on the campaign trail.
For many Hispanic Republicans like Nelson, who was born in IN and whose ancestors are Mexican, Trump — who has campaigned on building a wall along the Mexican border and who characterized Mexican immigrants as “rapists” — himself is the biggest challenge in recruiting Latino voters. Chief among the concerns that Ryan and other GOP leaders have raised about Trump is his understanding of foreign policy, including his proposed ban on Muslims entering the USA, as well as his promises to “quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS”. “This isn’t done with a couple of meetings”.
“All candidates change over the course of a campaign …” The billionaire presidential candidate who prides himself on paying his own way and bashed his competitors for their reliance on political donors now wants their money – and lots of it. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, recently hired a national finance chairman, scheduled his first fundraiser and is on the cusp of signing a deal with the Republican Party that would enable him to solicit donations of more than $300,000 apiece from supporters.
“I don’t know if it’s true or not, so I don’t know what to tell you”, Priebus said. (But) I wouldn’t care to predict how.
He told Tapper, “I think we sometimes forget just how successful we have been”. “The Senate goes as the presidential race goes”.
House Speaker Ryan, the nation’s highest ranking GOP official, hews to the party’s longstanding platform of fiscal and social conservatism: low taxes, small government, free trade.
That hesitation has bought him a tiny bit of time.
A candidate officially becomes the nominee of the party when a majority of the party delegates vote for him.
Despite several Republicans acknowledging deep fissures within the party about a standardbearer whose policies often stray from conservative orthodoxy, Trump emerged from the meetings sounding optimistic about a rapprochement.
Sessions said Trump has much to learn about how to talk about matters of war.
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Craig Gilbert is the Journal Sentinel’s Washington Bureau Chief and writes the Wisconsin Voter blog about politics and elections.
