This news isn’t exactly surprising.
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“I was hoping I could’ve been the delegate that put him over the top when winning California”, Lacy said. Among them is Oklahoma party chairwoman Pam Pollard. Only now, with Trump’s hold on the nomination inevitable, is he reaching out to the very Washington establishment he’s panned.
“And I said, ‘What happened.’ I thought I had to wait a couple more weeks”, Trump said. They fell one-by-one leaving Trump sole survivor of a riotous Republican primary.
The New York billionaire addressed reporters on Thursday afternoon before a speech in Bismarck, North Dakota.
“Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she can’t close the deal”, Trump crowed during an appearance in North Dakota.
Trump’s positive news was tempered by ongoing internal problems.
“I think it’s fair to say that they are surprised by the Republican nominee; they are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements”, Obama said.
Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an unbound delegate who confirmed his support of Trump to the AP, said he likes the billionaire’s background as a businessman. That’s because after his decisive win in Indiana’s May 3 GOP primary, his remaining competitors – John Kasich and Ted Cruz – dropped out of the race.
A contested convention now becomes incredibly less likely now that the delegates have pledged their support to Trump and pushed him over the necessary threshold to snag the Republican presidential nomination.
“When you rattle someone, that’s good because numerous world, many of the countries in our world…have been absolutely abusing us and taking advantage of us, so if they’re rattled in a friendly way, we’re going to have great relationships with these countries, but if they’re rattled in a friendly way, that’s a good thing…not a bad thing”.
He reached the magic 1,237 number with more than a half-dozen contests left to go, including California, the most delegate-rich state in the country. What I want to do, I think cutting Social Security is a big mistake for the Republican Party.
A demonstrator wears Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton buttons during a rally to condemn Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks about women and abortion, March 31, 2016.
Thursday also marks an extraordinary accomplishment for Trump.
San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman says in preparation, her department has spoken with police departments in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Anaheim.
Rick Wiley, who ran Wisconsin Governor Scott Walkers’s ill-fated presidential campaign, “was hired on a short-term basis as a consultant until the campaign was running full steam”, Trump’s campaign said in a statement on Wednesday. His entire campaign spent about $57 million through the end of April, approximately one fourth of what candidate Jeb Bush and his supporters spent on his failed campaign to elect the scion of Republican political power.
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Some Republicans have been hesitant to support Trump as the party’s nominee, even in Florida where Trump maintains part-time residence.
