Ahead of her endorsement Thursday, Warren spoke to the American Constitution Society and attacked Trump as a “loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud”.
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Once viewed as a political joke, the blunt-spoken billionaire has stormed to the cusp of becoming the GOP nominee. It has to do with Trump University. The liberal lawmaker increasingly has tangled with Trump, taking on an attack-dog role that she seems able to execute more effectively than other Democrats, including Clinton herself.
“I will not stand idly by listening to a person attacking the integrity of a judge due to their ethnicity”, Labrador, an Idaho Republican, said at a monthly news conference he holds with a group of his fellow conservatives in the House of Representatives. If that happens, he said, the delegation’s vote will reflect the results of the February 1 caucuses.
Trump has won 1,447 bound delegates and has commitments from another 95, putting him well over the 1,237 needed to win the nomination. Trump’s reaction last week to seeing a black man at one of his rallies – “Look at my African-American over here!” – reflected a kind of casual bigotry.
“It’ll be $1 billion plus”, Washburne said in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, adding, “there’s only one team to be on at this point”.
BEN CARSON: I think what you have to do is ask Donald Trump specifically that question. Senate control, and less likely the House, are at also stake in November’s election.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts on May 2, 2016, in Carmel, Indiana. But it’s out there.
Contending that the so-called “assault” on the judiciary is composed of two major elements – ending centuries-old processes for appointing judges and attacking judicial nominees, potential nominees and sitting federal judges – Warren took issue with Trump’s recent comments on Curiel. Adam Schiff of California, said the GOP’s avowal to confront “adversarial power and rogue regimes” conflicts with “Trump’s embrace of Vladimir Putin, and his interest in a personal meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un”. “And he certainly hasn’t shown any signs that he’s going to”. His pitch on Trump was to stay positive, reminding anyone who would listen that Trump has great children, which says something about his character.
Nonetheless, Mead said he supports Trump over Clinton. But it may need to first wander down this serpentine path of populism.
“He says he’s a conservative, but there’s nothing to back it up”, he said. “That is true”, Collins, who has been a lifelong Republican, said.
What Trump hasn’t told his followers is that Judge Curiel has repeatedly ruled in Trump’s favor on other motions and was obligated to deny his motion for summary judgment. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. James Bopp Jr., an IN convention delegate and rules expert, says disregarding Trump’s primary victory and naming a different nominee would mean “the destruction of the Republican Party”.
Trump, a wealthy businessman, became the presumptive Republican nominee last month after seeing off 16 rivals in a largely self-funded primary campaign.
“There won’t be any polling the delegation, the chair will cast the ballot”, he said.
Is “Dump Trump” For Real? . “And we’re not going to keep quiet just because the Washington, D.C. power elites want us to”, the group says in its initial mission statement. The only thing most must do is support the candidate they are pledged to, and only on the first round of votes.
Still, only a small handful of Republicans have withdrawn or withheld their endorsements of Trump. If they’re persuaded to do so, perhaps by additional intemperate Trump comments, they can vote for rules changes that would open the door for a replacement.
“There’s a lot more than just the term itself”, he said.
“We will watch and see what happens”, he told reporters.
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Petrocelli argued that it would be unfair to force Trump to defend the lawsuits in trial while he was running for president.
