Vulnerable Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Friday distanced himself from Donald Trump, who he has not endorsed, saying having the NY businessman at the top of the Republican ticket will not impact his re-election to the Senate.
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Donald Trump’s campaign just endured yet another week of controversy, problems, and flat-out embarrassments, and now, enough is enough for a growing number of influential Republican strategists and political professionals.
Paul Ryan was accused of delaying his endorsement of Mr Trump after strongly criticising the businessman’s remarks, saying Mr Trump’s accusations of a federal judge due to his Mexican heritage was the definition of “textbook racism”.
Trump earlier this week refused to endorse Ryan when he told The Washington Post he was “not quite there yet” – using the same phrase Ryan had used about Trump before finally endorsing him. John McCain, who he has also been at odds with.
And in another show of primary establishment support, Trump also backed New Hampshire Sen.
“And while I’m at it, I hold in the highest esteem Sen. John McCain for his service to our country in uniform and in public office, and I fully support and endorse his re-election”, said Trump, before backing Ayotte.
In an interview Friday on WISN radio in Wisconsin, Ryan also reiterated that the endorsement he cares about is from his own voters.
Trump listed several immigrants, mostly countries with Muslim populations-Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Uzbekistan and Yemen-who were arrested for conducting or threatening to carry out violent attacks, teaching bomb-making to recruits, and otherwise supporting terror groups. “We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them”, Trump, who has built his campaign around an anti-immigration platform, said at a rally in Portland, Maine. “We need to brace ourselves”. Ryan said: “I’m just going to rise above this stuff and I’m not going to get involved in some sort of petty back and forth”.
Trump on Friday announced he was setting up an advisory team to help guide him on economic policy.
“Remember this: Iran – I don’t think you heard this anywhere but here – Iran provided all of that footage, the tape of taking that money off the airplane”, Trump said at the campaign event in Florida. “He is a longtime friend”. “We will work to ensure both chambers of Congress remain in Republican hands, continuing to protect against executive overreach regardless of who wins the election this November”.
“I’m not going to try and psychoanalyze this stuff”, the House speaker told Weber.
Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence briefly returned home from the campaign trail to kick off what he calls “the best state fair in America”.
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That move would be unheard of in modern American presidential politics, of course, but it’s not stopping people from demanding that Trump slink off back to his Manhattan real estate digs.
