Donald Trump huddled with House Republicans Thursday in an attempt to build party unity amid worries over his campaign, but unanimity appeared elusive, despite a warm welcome.
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Jeff Flake confronted the presumptive GOP presidential nominee over his incendiary comments about Sen. According to the Post, Trump told Flake he hadn’t attacked him yet but may start to do so and predicted Flake would lose his election. “I really do. I just can’t support him given the things that he’s said”, Flake told reporters later. The source said Lee has been hearing out all sides of the issue and remains in listening mode.
Flake referenced Trump’s criticism past year of his colleague, Sen.
Dent has yet to throw his support behind Trump and is not attending the GOP convention.
At his meeting Thursday, Trump was asked about defending Article 1 of the Constitution on the separation of powers.
It’s very, very hard to see strategy in Trump’s combativeness and/or to imagine what that strategy (if one exists) might gain him.
I get that Trump ran a very successful primary campaign against Washington and the Republicans who call it home.
A representative for Flake confirmed the details of their exchange during Trump’s meeting with Senate Republicans.
“He basically said, ‘I am not going to let you down, ‘” said Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump’s private meeting Thursday with Senate Republicans – created to foster greater party unity ahead of the national convention in Cleveland – grew combative as the presumptive presidential nominee admonished three senators who have been critical of his candidacy and predicted they would lose their reelection bids, according to two Republican officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges. “Lee stands up in the Rules Committee and says, ‘In the interest of transparency I think the delegates should get their choice, ‘ I think they get their 28”, Evans said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Trump following his last visit to Washington, D.C., but a lot has since happened since then.
Asked if Democrats might renew their sit-in, she said, “I’ll do what my members want to do”.
“They’re not the people I live next door to”.
Had he wanted to, Trump or his campaign could have made the story disappear by just saying, “We didn’t realize that image came from a white supremacist site, and didn’t catch the meaning of the different elements in it before we retweeted it”.
Meanwhile, about 200 Republicans met with presumed Republican Party candidate Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, while some in close races declined.
Trump supporters emerged from the meeting largely shying away from talking about Trump’s tweet featuring a six-pointed star that was criticized for being anti-Semitic, which he defended during a rally Wednesday night. Among Democratic voters, more now say neither candidate would make a good president than did so in 2008 or 2012, but as many expressed this view in the 2000 and 2004 elections. “But things like the Saddam Hussein comment are not helping me get there”.
Trump won grassroots support during months of state-by-state nominating contests with a pledge to ban Muslims temporarily from entering the United States and to build a wall on the USA border with Mexico.
And even members who have been critical of Trump, like New York Rep. Peter King, had positive reviews of the meeting.
The presumptive GOP nominee told lawmakers he wants a united party and blamed the media for campaign flaps that include his recent comments about ex-Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein.
“We haven’t seen a personality like his too much in the Midwest. But today, if today is the way it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be an extremely effective campaign”.
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Trump was meeting with rank-and-file House Republicans before a separate session with GOP senators.
