Reports are coming out that Vice Presidential nominee and Indiana Governor Mike Pence has contradicted his running mate, Donald Trump, by endorsing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
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“He strongly encouraged me to endorse”, Pence said a day after Trump indicated he was not ready to toss his own support behind Ryan.
The Trump campaign has been boasting of how many small donations it has been receiving, saying in a Wednesday statement that those donations were up by 69 percent in July. “And he’s only 5 or 6 points behind”, Bennett said.
There, ah, is reason to doubt that he’s doing so at Trump’s behest, unless Trump himself is suddenly so anxious about Republicans rebelling over his non-endorsement of Ryan yesterday that he sent Pence out there to make amends.
“He feels like a fool”, a Republican source familiar with the situation said of Priebus.
More any other major figure in the Republican establishment, Mr Priebus worked to bring Mr Trump into the party’s fold despite the NY businessman’s status as an outsider. Obama asked during a White House news conference.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of IL said the Republican nominee is “beginning to cross a lot of red lines of the unforgivable in politics”.
Ryan’s once sleepy race against a little-known and underfunded challenger, an executive at a water filtration company, got a jolt when Trump refused to back Ryan.
Trump told The Washington Post in an interview published on Tuesday, “I like Paul, but these are disgusting times for our country”.
In an interview Wednesday on CNN’s “At This Hour,” Trump adviser and pollster Kellyanne Conway said about the pair: “They do talk, their staffs do talk regularly”.
“There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before”. I want to thank everyone for your tremendous support. “Beat Crooked H!” he wrote on Twitter early on Wednesday, referring to his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
“The campaign’s focused and the campaign is moving forward in a positive way”, Manafort told Fox. The soldier’s father appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week.
Pence’s insistence that the campaign was in good shape was echoed by Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager.
Manafort said the campaign has “sort of had a rule of not getting involved in primaries”. The campaign says Walker will join Trump at future events if they don’t interfere with his work in Wisconsin. On Monday, he fired Ed Brookover, a senior adviser hired as a liaison between the campaign and the RNC.
Trump feuded publicly with the family of deceased Army Capt. Humayun Khan after they criticized Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric. Khizr and Ghazala Khan cited the sacrifice of their son, who was killed by a auto bomb, and criticized Trump’s proposal to combat terrorism by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States.
An email request for comment from the Ryan campaign was not immediately returned Wednesday morning.
The dispute over Trump’s treatment of the Khans was the latest rift in a party frayed by dissent over the candidate.
Nehlen, an OH native who moved to Wisconsin eight years ago, said Wednesday he welcomed the support of Democrats and anyone else.
Trump has also tweeted praise for Paul Nehlen, a businessman who is challenging Ryan in his Wisconsin district’s primary next week.
Clinton’s campaign committee itself reported it raised around $63 million in July.
A former reality TV star with a propensity for free-flowing insults, Trump has won support particularly from white blue-collar workers who feel neglected by the political establishment.
His plans have included the ban on Muslims and building a wall along the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants. He’s a strong conservative leader.
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Opinion polls have shown Clinton benefiting from a boost after her party’s convention last week.
