John McCain, according to a source familiar with the closed-door meeting.
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Sasse did not respond to Trump, and a spokesman for the Nebraska freshman said after the meeting that the senator had not changed his mind.
“Yes, I’m the other senator from Arizona – the one who didn’t get captured – and I want to talk to you about statements like that”, Flake reportedly said, referring to Trump’s inflammatory comments previous year about Sen. According to the Post, Trump told Flake he hadn’t attacked him yet but may start to do so and predicted Flake would lose his election.
“[Petraeus] not only shared [classified information] with someone who was not allowed to have it, but we found it in a search warrant under the insulation in his attic, and then he lied to us about it in the investigation”, Comey said during a Thursday hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. I just can’t support him given the things that he’s said, ” Flake said before ducking into a lunch meeting.
“Senator Sasse went to today’s meeting ready to listen”.
At a morning meeting with about 220 members of the House GOP, Trump discussed his policies and political organization, defended his remarks on Saddam Hussein Wednesday night and took questions.
Trump’s meeting with Senate Republicans may have gotten a little ugly, but maybe he had better luck impressing House Republicans? “I really do. I just can’t support him given the things he said”.
“And I don’t think that we can be dismissive of that kind of statement”.
On Thursday, she indicated she would vote for Trump, her communications director, Meghan Burris, said.
Trump said that, while he did argue that the former Iraqi dictator was good at killing terrorists, he also stressed he was a very bad person, officials said.
Cruz’s camp also said Trump asked the conservative senator at the meeting to serve as an adviser to potential Trump administration judicial nominations. “It was most encouraging and helpful, and I think people felt – left there – feeling very, very positive”, he said.
“I mentioned in there that I’m not in the “Never Trump” movement”. So in a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, there should be no mystery. “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Donald Trump and House Republicans”.
“I don’t believe you have the temperament or judgment to be our commander-in-chief”, he said in a tweet directed at Trump on Thursday.
Not every Republican showed up to the Trump meetings Thursday.
“In the roughly hourlong meeting, Trump stressed that we have to run as a team because turning this country around requires all of us working together”. Keyes, a Republican candidate for the Senate in IL in 2004, lost to Barack Obama by a wide margin.
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“There are two and a half months until the Republican convention, six months until the general election”, Cruz told reporters in May after returning to Washington.
