Neither candidate has particularly high favorability among the opposing party, giving the state’s independents – who usually lean right – more power going into the general election.
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When the 2016 elections are finally over, regardless of who wins, someone should sit down and write a play about about the moral struggle the chairman of the Republican National Committee found himself engaged in during the waning days of the GOP primary race – call it Priebus Agonistes.
Democrats in New Hampshire have unveiled Trump/Sununu lawn signs, looking to tie Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Sununu to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on issues such as climate change (Trump is a skeptic) and healthcare.
Former Massachusetts Governor MItt Romney has been reaching out to potential candidates to gauge their interest, the paper reported. The latter was more easily painted as a heartless, plutocratic symbol of the ways in which global capitalism has destroyed countless lives in America’s industrial heartland. Will he end the illegality in immigration?
But so far, it doesn’t look like Romney’s effort is working. “And I don’t know if anyone else could have pulled off what he’s pulled off over the past year, but this sort of traditional review and analysis of individual candidates has not applied to Donald Trump”, Priebus said on CBS’ Face the Nation.
“Credibility matters”, Benenson said. “You have to have proof points”.
Clinton, despite still having to run against Vermont Sen.
The DSCC also launched a website in March, partyoftrump.com, which labelled some senators “Retrumplicans” and asked for donations to help fight senators who support Trump. And 59 percent of women said Trump’s nomination would give them a much less favorable view of the party.
But Benenson made a case that – relative to Priebus’s – sounds oddly conventional. Despite appearing to be an obvious choice – Sasse is considered a rising star in the Republican Party and has said a third-party candidate would be a better option – such a risky move would jeopardize his valuable Senate seat and could effectively ruin his career. Clinton recently rolled out a plan to improve childcare and make it more affordable. He said he’s worked for Trump for six weeks and already uses language similar to his boss. “This isn’t about bluster”.
“I won’t be voting for Hillary Clinton, that’s for sure”, he said.
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And of course, there are Trump’s business record and his own words. He has recently reneged on one of his most controversial issues – a temporary “ban on Muslims” from foreign countries entering the US – which quite literally goes against his self-cultivated political image as a man of action in a country governed by “idiots” and “weaklings”. “But I also think there are things from many years ago and I think that, you know, as Christians, judging each other I think is – is problematic”. “When he plays offense, he continues to alienate the very people he needs to persuade”. “And Donald Trump released his returns to a gaming commission, I believe, while under audit when he was trying to get a casino in New Jersey”.
