“America can’t ever be neutral when it comes to Israel’s security or survival”.
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Thousands of conference attendees filed in for the evening session of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Monday as the protesters alternated between anti-Trump and anti-Israel chants.
Romney warned: “A vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump”.
After the meeting, Cotton’s office issued a statement saying that he remains neutral in the presidential race and is focused on beating the Democratic nominee, whether it is Hillary Clinton or Vermont. Sen.
Donald Trump took his outsider presidential campaign to the nation’s capital Monday, urging the Republican Party to accept him as the nominee even if he falls short of the required amount of delegates.
In a broad sense, all the candidates confirmed to speak on Monday fall into one of those categories. Trump said that his first priority would be dismantling the deal between Western powers and Iran that places restrictions on the country’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. “This will be an opportunity to address the ambiguity before a serious foreign policy audience”. “It is a beginning, but it was a very good one, with some of the most respected people in Washington”, Trump said after the meeting with roughly two-dozen Republicans including Sens.
Cruz is considered the front runner to defeat Trump in Utah. His role in Trump’s operation wasn’t certain, but he said he planned to campaign for him in Louisiana and support him through efforts in Washington, D.C.
During an MSNBC town hall in February, Trump declined to say whether he would support one side over the other in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. “If you see bigotry, oppose it. If you see violence, condemn it. If you see a bully, stand up to him”. But Cruz omitted Trump’s comments and actions that have shown support for Israel, including that he endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and was the grand marshal for the Salute to Israel parade in New York City in 2004. George Mitchell as envoy.
Clinton stressed that Israelis and Palestinians “can’t give up” on hopes for peace, but she put forth a hard line against perpetrators and supporters of recent violence in the Jewish state.
“My goal is, and I will tell this to the delegates, is to do everything we can to stop Donald Trump from getting the Republican nomination”.
Before making these remarks, Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he would move the USA embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Similar remarks will not be welcomed at the AIPAC conference.
In advance of Trump’s AIPAC appearance, other Jewish groups have publicly signaled opposition to the tone Trump has struck on the campaign trail.
His use of the word, and the speech taken as a whole, suggested Trump may be taking a step toward formal speechmaking and away from his more blustering, colorful and unscripted rhetoric.
On Wednesday, Trump said that if he’s close to the nomination and is denied, there could be riots.
A woman, who was not identified, asked Trump for a job and he brought her to the podium.
“It’s important that the lobby keep itself on decent terms with whatever powers govern in Washington”, commentator J.J. Goldberg wrote in the Jewish newspaper The Forward. We are sitting on a big fat ugly bubble.
The campaign spent about $710,000 on air travel, the majority of which – about $640,000 – went to Trump’s airline, TAG Air Inc.
On Sunday night, Vice President Joe Biden assured the group the Obama administration has done what it can to make the region more secure.
A clear sign of distress came this weekend when the Anti-Defamation League announced that it would redirect all of Trump’s donations previously accepted by the Jewish civil rights-human relations organization, citing the “stereotyping and scapegoating that have been injected into this political season”, the group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said.
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“We had a really good meeting”.
