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Among 54 Republican senators and 247 GOP representatives, about 80 percent attended Trump’s meetings with members of the two chambers.
For months, Republican U.S. Sen. “If you read the headlines in the paper, I could see why some folks might be anxious”, Rep. Chris Collins of NY, a supporter, recalled Trump saying.
At one point, Trump threatened to begin attacking Flake “hard”, in which he predicted that Flake would lose his reelection. “These are people who love our country!”
Though he did not mention that particular furore on Thursday, Mr Trump did reportedly complain about the media coverage of his recent comments regarding Saddam Hussein, whom he described on the stump as a “really bad guy”, even as he praised the late Iraqi dictator for, he claimed, being “so good” at “killing terrorists”.
Beyond skipping the meetings, the Miami Republicans also reiterated their plans to skip the Republican National Convention in Cleveland later this month.
Several Republican senators declined to comment specifically – many said they did not hear a reported remark by Trump characterizing Kirk as a loser.
“It was a positive and productive meeting and these characterizations, attributed to unnamed sources are wholly inaccurate”, a Trump official said.
When Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona openly criticized Trump for the candidate’s attacks on fellow Arizona Republican Sen. That’s no way to impress people who revere America’s founding document. “And people on the fence are still on the fence”. He said attendees were in “total agreement” with Trump about the need to unify the party. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who appeared with Trump in North Carolina earlier this week but has taken himself out of vice presidential consideration.
“I think it was the normal stream of consciousness that’s long on hyperbole and short on facts”, said Sanford, who dismissed the alternative – Clinton.
Democrats mocked Trump’s meeting with Republicans on Capitol Hill, saying the GOP is linking itself to the candidate’s extreme views on issues like immigration.
WASHINGTON ― Thursday was a typical day for Donald Trump.
And Trump would later also retweet an unflattering picture of the Texans’ wife alongside a glamorous shot of his own wife with the caption “the images are worth a thousand words”.
“The meeting offers the presumptive Republican nominee an opportunity to reassure nervous members of the party who worry that his freewheeling style – on display Wednesday night during a speech in Cincinnati in which he reignited a controversy over a tweet some have said is anti-Semitic – may turn off voters”. They’re right there. OK, how many votes do you cast tomorrow?
“One scenario would be that he is victorious in the fall – I don’t think that’s going to be the case, personally”, he said. “But we need unity in the Republican Party”.
“This is a conversation in progress”, Diaz-Balart said of his relationship with Trump. They did not discuss any endorsement at the moment, the senator said.
Speculation about possible rules changes at the Republican National Convention have spurred rumors about the last minute appearance of an alternative GOP presidential nominee.
The determined march forward to the Republican convention continues.
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke with lawmakers as he narrows his search for a vice president. Two prospects, Tennessee’s Corker and Sen. Joni Ernst has indicated that she is not interested in the position.
