“In general, there is an expectation that you support your nominee for president for your party”, Johnson said.
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“Those are Donald’s opinions,”Christie said, “and he has the right to express them, the same way anybody else has the right to express their views regarding how they’re treated in the civil or criminal courts in this country”. But such resentments are supposed to be expressed using coded language – if only so those who call out that language can be labeled oversensitive. You’re not supposed to be as plainspoken as Trump was when he complained about the judge who approved the release of documents suggesting that Trump University was a scam.
“Speaker Ryan reconfirmed the detailed discussions that he’s had with Mr. Trump, and he reconfirmed that he as Speaker… remains comfortable with Mr. Trump as our nominee”, Rep. Chris Collins, R-New York, told reporters, an account seconded by other members.
In the face of a changing electorate, can a GOP that has spent decades fighting off negative stereotypes afford to countenance a standard bearer who encourages even the appearance of racism?
Menendez said lashing out simply because someone isn’t getting their preferred way, “as Donald Trump seems to do often”, is “remarkably childish, thin-skinned, surprisingly egocentric”.
Trump has come under a shower of criticism from Republicans and Democrats during the past week for his accusations that a Mexican-American judge presiding over a lawsuit on the now-defunct Trump University can’t be impartial because of his heritage.
Get a load of that arrogance.
“What bothers me about Trump is the lack of substance behind it all”, Coats said that January afternoon. Does that mean no woman should ever be his judge?
Donald Trump has showed us who he is, it’s time to believe him.
Speaker Paul RyanPaul RyanBudowsky: Elizabeth Warren’s mission PROMESA’s promises fall short House hopes for strong showing on Puerto Rico bill MORE (R-Wis.) called Trump’s remarks on the judge the “textbook definition of racist comments”.
Indeed, Sen. Tim Scott, the only African-American Republican in the Senate, said: “I think he’s done a good job in the last 24 hours of realizing the impact of those comments”.
“But do I believe Hillary Clinton is the answer? No, I do not”. Fast forward a decade or so, and imagine Ryan or Marco Rubio – one of today’s optimistic young conservatives – giving a speech about how conservative ideas are the best policies to bring about the most joy and human flourishing. He could sit this race out. Instead, he’s chosen to tolerate Trump’s racist outburst because he hates Clinton so.
Despite his claim that Trump’s bigoted outburst is “absolutely unacceptable” Ryan is soldiering on and continuing to accept Trump. “Are we going to come down on Jews?” Should his orders to the military be illegal, he says they won’t refuse.
So where are the Republicans going to get those needed nonwhite votes in November? It’s not clear that legally you’ve done anything wrong, but it looks, well it looks bad.
At a rally Friday, Trump was discussing racial violence at his events and the perception that nonwhite people are against him, when he singled out a black man in the crowd.
That was not enough, however, to placate Trump supporters like Moreno.
The tycoon’s former White House rival Jeb Bush fired back after his attempt at damage control, tweeting: “Donald Trump should retract his comments, not defend them”.
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Still, give me Christie’s lie over Ryan’s supposed truth telling.
