Reminded that Trump is the presumptive nominee, Alexander retorted, “That’s what you say”.
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“You’d think that he would have pivoted by now”, lamented Arizona Senator Jeff Flake.
Asked to respond Tuesday morning, Ryan said he stood by previous criticism of Trump’s stance.
“Everything he’s said in the last couple of weeks has been concerning”, Thune said.
“What I don’t do, because I think it’s risky, is to demonize an entire religion, and that plays into Islamic State’s hands”, she told CNN on June 13.
“If he comes I guess I would hope he would say ‘I want to work with your agenda, ‘” Kinzinger said.
Then he rolled his eyes, admitting that strategy doesn’t seem to be working “at the moment”.
The Donald Trump campaign has a message for Republican leaders – get behind him or “shut the hell up”.
One senior Senate Republican, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, went so far as to suggest Trump might not end up as the party’s nominee after all.
“I continue to be discouraged by the direction of the campaign and comments that are made”, said Sen. He renewed his call to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the country, and added a new element: a suspension of immigration from areas of the world with a proven history of terrorism against the USA and its allies.
Ohio Senator Rob Portman, who’s up for reelection, said he opposes Trump’s immigration plans.
‘Hopefully it’ll change. Maybe he’ll have a Damascus road experience, ‘ he said, a reference to Saul, who was blinded on the road to Damascus and converted to Christianity. Those included claims that Syrian refugees are admitted into the USA without any screening and that neighbors of the perpetrators of December’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, knew about it in advance but said nothing to police.
As Trump closed in on the Republican nomination in March, numerous Republican elites threw their support to him on the belief that he would moderate his approach to appeal to a general electorate.
The presumptive Republican nominee will address House Republican on Thursday, July 7, a House leadership aide told NBC News Tuesday.
But while Ryan and Trump disagree on the solution, they agree on the problem.
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“We don’t think that the administration has done a good enough job confronting this threat”, Ryan said, reminding reporters of his 67 point plan to improve national security.
