“Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes at Fox News have turned Fox News into the Donald Trump network”, Cruz said.
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Ryan said he hoped the party would be unified by this summer but indicated Trump would have to reach out and convince his colleagues to support his candicacy.
While many prominent Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, have declined to endorse Trump, Dole said he plans “to show my support for our party and our ticket, as I have done my entire life”.
“I’m going to get Bernie (Sanders) people to vote, because they like me on trade”, he added, referring to the Democratic candidate in an uphill fight to clinch his party’s nomination instead of Hillary Clinton.
An hour later, Trump responded by saying: “I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan’s agenda”.
The Republican leadership today appeared to be bitterly divided on Donald Trump, who is emerging as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee. The “Never Trump” Movement spent millions of dollars in negative advertisements against Trump during the primaries. On Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was not ready to throw his support behind the business mogul. “I would like to be able to do that, but I just can’t”, Graham said. Still he says he can’t vote for Clinton for president, arguing that she represents a third term of Barack Obama.
Bush clashed with Trump earlier and more often than any of the other Republicans who ran for president, though it proved to be too late and too little against the celebrity businessman.
Ryan announced Friday that he and other members of the House Republican leadership will meet with Trump Thursday morning. “I don’t think he can say or do anything between now and November that will convince me that he’s the next Reaganesque leader for our party or for our country”.
Trump softened his tone on Ryan while speaking at a campaign event in Spokane, Washington, on Saturday.
He said Republicans are in a bind.
Ingraham noted that, even though Trump was at times “raw and rough”, he also won election after election.
“I much prefer what Mitch McConnell did, what John McCain did – they both said ‘OK game’s over, we have a nominee, I’m for him'”.
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“And so, I think what is necessary to make this work, for this to unify, is to actually take our principles and advance them”.
