“I can’t support Donald Trump”. He told the New York Times in an interview that he’ll begin searching for a running mate too, with former rival-turned-surrogate Dr. Ben Carson heading up that vetting process.
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Cruz isn’t expected to face a serious Republican primary challenge when he’s up for Senate re-election in 2018.
And GOP donors might get so scared of a third Obama term and the soft socialism that goes with it that, once the notion of a President Clinton sinks in, they’ll start writing checks. The Democrats were violently split during their Chicago convention in 1968, but eventually most party factions outside of the South rallied to Hubert Humphrey, and he came close to beating Richard Nixon. That’s interspliced with clips of Trump – consider it a stroll down his campaign’s memory lane – generally saying and being the worst thing. He put on a hard hat presented to him by the state’s coal miners’ association and made a shoveling motion. “We’re lowering taxes very substantially and we’re going to be getting rid of a tremendous amount of regulations”. However, he has yet to issue a formal endorsement of Trump. He has also said he would temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country as a way to combat terrorism.
Sasse is part of a vocal group of conservative thinkers and lawmakers who have refused to back the presumptive Republican presidential nominee over what they see as his lack of conservative bona fides.
“For many of my students, they have never known an era when a Clinton or a Bush was not president or dominating national politics”, he said.
“It is early – we just won yesterday, ” Trump said. Well-targeted attack ads from so-called super PACs, which are loosely associated with campaigns, have crushed prior presidential runs. “I want to be able to say I’m a Republican and be proud of it”.
Cruz’s relationship with Trump worsened during the presidential campaign. He has largely used his own money for his primary fight but plans to follow the more typical path of raising money from outside sources for the general election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama. He named Steven Mnuchin, a private investor with ties to NY and Hollywood, as his national finance chairman on Thursday. The Clintons have dismissed criticisms of the charitable organization as politically motivated. Except the finish line is set to the left of the peak, meaning the Republican has to climb over the top, while the Democrat only has to make it most of the way up. The Republican Party simply can not win without the support of women, and our presumptive nominee has done nothing but alienate us. Top party strategists behind the #NeverTrump movement failed to gain any traction in their coordinated efforts to deprive Trump of the 1237 delegates to secure the nomination.
Trump, a billionaire who paid for most of his primary campaign by himself, acknowledges he would have to sell some of his holdings to muster the hundreds of millions of dollars for a general election bid, something he says he doesn’t necessarily want to do.
And hey, thanks for being the only politician – or “citizen-politician”, or whatever you call yourself – to understand that our young people are searching for an alternative to the two corrupt liberal parties in Washington but are handicapped by their ignorance of “the meaning of America”, which you quite properly define as fighting terrorists, balancing the budget, and opposing political correctness.
It’s a loftier demand from the voting base that has previously waged anti-Clinton social media campaigns targeting the candidate’s record, and one that won’t see any success – unless Clinton has a sudden and unexpected change of heart about the nation’s executive office.
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As for Trump, Dent said he has some “fence-mending to do” with Republicans.
