And if they don’t, that’s a sign of how bad things really are.
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Bay Area tech executives reacted to this new political reality with shock and denial.
Hillary Clinton says she has been approached by a number of Republicans looking to back her White House campaign, rather than throw their weight behind their party’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
Party leaders fear Trump’s candidacy could cost Republicans control of the Senate.
Trump is shrugging off the high-profile Republicans who have stated they aren’t voting for him, among them former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. “You know, we’ve gotten more votes than anybody in this position that’s ever run for the office”. Who has a track record of getting results for people, ‘ she continued.
Trump has generally avoided the issue on the campaign trail.
“He constructed a series of scapegoats that these folks would find plausible, ” said Mr. Putnam, citing Mr. Trump’s attacks on Muslims and immigrants. Which would greatly shrink the distance between Trump and Hillary Clinton on the tax issue and bolster the idea that what Trump is going to do is run a campaign as far to the left as he can in order to make himself simply a more entertaining version of the NY liberal at the top of the Democrat ticket. Ben Sasse of Nebraska was considering a third-party challenge as a protest to Mr. Trump – a certain kamikaze flight that would not likely have any appreciable impact on the campaign outcome. “You can’t do well at the bottom of the ticket”, he said, “if you don’t do well at the top of the ticket”.
Trump, who once said wages were too high but has made specific appeals to voters hit by economic stagnation, said he would like to see a minimum-wage increase but only at the state level.
The former secretary of state cast The Donald as a “loose cannon” for wanting to upend nuclear arms policy, bring back torture, shake up North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and renegotiate the national debt. After spending days on the receiving end of criticism from the likes of Ryan, Romney and Graham, Trump and his supporters hit back – hard.
At rallies over the weekend Trump linked the Democratic front-runner with husband Bill Clinton’s past marital infidelities and 1998 impeachment. That’s what I’d like to get and we’ll fight for it.
Trump has said that if he’s elected, he’ll terminate Obama’s immigration actions and build a wall on the border with Mexico. “There are also rumblings there could be a group that comes out publicly for Hillary to make a point”.
“If the party walks away from any of its clearly cut social, family values issues, it will be an issue”, said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council and GOP delegate from Louisiana. He’s collaborating with the Republican National Committee on fundraising and other organisational tasks.
Like his former GOP challengers, Trump opposes Obama’s health law and has pledged “a full repeal”. Ben Sasse; or a candidate like former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg or Gen. Colin Powell, who could attract conservatives and progressives in a general election. Marco Rubio promised to re-impose sanctions.
‘Well, I’m not going to run an ugly race, ‘ she said.
Some within the GOP – including Matthew Del Carlo, the chairman of the California Young Republicans – predict that stunned Silicon Valley conservatives will eventually fall in line, if not in love, with Trump.
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Trump has to deal with the fact that 18 states have been reliably Democratic in the presidential election every year between 1992 and 2012 – and they represent 242 electoral votes, Wilkes said.
