Gov. John Kasich has suspended his campaign for president, leaving Donald Trump the last Republican candidate standing.
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As Trump stood alone on Wednesday after Texas Sen.
Trump himself said he could consider Kasich, a former congressman who helped balance the federal budget, as his vice presidential pick.
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has no plans to attend the July Republican convention joining Sen. It’s a state that has been moving slowly but surely toward Republicans at the state and federal level and where the electorate is already super-polarized along party lines. “I would be interested in vetting John”, he said.
But the wounds from a brutal primary battle were still raw among many Republican loyalists who simply cannot bear to support Trump because they worry he could spell disaster for the party in the November 8 elections.
Baker said he now believes that Trump will be his party’s nominee, but there are still a number of issues he “vehemently” disagrees with Trump on.
Dole had originally endorsed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Cruz played the “no compromise” game with his own party. “So with that in mind, we are being careful to let the process play through and provide the space for there to be a unifying moment for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders”. Though it noted the value of his often less-than-polite criticism of Clinton and other Democrats, the editorial’s insistence that Sanders’s voice had elevated the discourse during the primary still felt more like an epitaph, the kind of lionizing doled out as a campaign is lowered into the grave. “I think I’d rather just not vote to be honest”, Tyler Longhurst said. To be clear (again): This is a thought experiment aimed at understanding what a national map that elects Trump looks like.
Silent on the Republican presidential race for much of it, Ryan was moved to speak out when Trump proposed banning foreign Muslims from entering the USA until the security of Americans could be assured. He says that while he will continue to put up “substantial money”, he must also develop a more traditional fundraising approach now that he is likely to face off with Democrat Hillary Clinton in the general election. The five-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee, has had a complicated relationship with Trump ever since the billionaire chastised McCain for being taken captive during the Vietnam War.
Romney’s decision, which was first reported Thursday by The Washington Post, comes after former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush said they have no plans to endorse Trump.
“Educated, suburban white women are turned off en masse and there will be more of that”, Ohio Sen.
Trump hit back as well. “In the Columbus suburbs, she’s going to do very well”. Clinton has been mining California for political donations and support since her husband, Bill Clinton, ran for president in 1992, his victory that year ending a string of six straight elections in which Republican presidential candidates carried the state.
There is some irony in Clinton playing the role of a unifier: She’s always been one of the most divisive figures in American politics.
Even before she got in the race, the early argument around a Clinton candidacy was that she would likely do better than Obama among white voters in a general, perhaps putting states like Kentucky in play.
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Amy Bishop, 42, a stay-at-home mom from Indianola, Iowa, said she wasn’t sure how she would vote.
