Trump singled out his chief Republican nemesis in the Senate, Ben Sasse, during a private meeting with senators on Thursday, and also had a testy exchange with Arizona Sen.
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The presumptive Democratic nominee wrote on Twitter that she mourned for the officers “shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters”.
Trump’s first session on Thursday included a hug with critic Paul Ryan, and jokes between the two Republicans during the hour-long session.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, states the meeting was “positive and productive”. Just one month ago, Clinton and Trump also scrambled their schedules following the mass killings at an Orlando nightclub.
The sources said that Donald Trump and Cruz chose to come together to “work on several policy issues they agree on”, specifically judicial nominations.
If you believe the investigations into Clinton’s actions are not political, I have a Brooklyn Bridge I’d like to sell you.
Trump won grassroots support during months of state-by-state nominating contests for the November 8 election with a pledge to ban Muslims temporarily from entering the USA and to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. He regularly annoys party leaders with inflammatory remarks. “But given some of the statements that have been made, I’m finding it hard”, Flake said.
Gingrich said he has been vetted but accepting to partner with Trump, “It’s not an automatic Yes”.
“Nah, I’ll leave it”, he said.
He did, eventually, and has stuck by it, even after describing Trump’s behavior as textbook racist when the mogul said a judge overseeing a trial involving Trump University was biased because of his Mexican heritage.
But not everyone was won over.
After billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban suggested Trump would drop out of the race for $5 billion, Trump joked, “I guess we’d have to think about it”.
Cruz told the reporters after the meeting that the presumptive Republican nominee offered him a slot during the RNC, to which Cruz, accepted.
Arizona has traditionally been a GOP stronghold, but ABC News has rated the state only “Leans Republican” for the 2016 cycle because of the growing number of Hispanics and Trump’s comments throughout his campaign on immigration.
Flake stood up for his fellow Arizona lawmaker by introducing himself to Trump as “the other senator from Arizona, the one who didn’t get captured”, referring to Trump’s criticism of McCain’s time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
According to the Washington Post and other media outlets are reporting that Trump had a spirited exchange with two members of the group.
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Kirk, seeking re-election from IL, which is a Democratic-leaning state, withdrew his endorsement of Trump over the nominee’s racist remarks against a federal judge.
