Governor Susana Martinez: Though Trump has called for an endorsement from the New Mexico governor (even after he criticized her leadership and falsely claimed that she has allowed Syrian refugees to settle in her state), Martinez refuses to back the Republican candidate. “The establishment never sleeps”.
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At the same time this week, Rep. Richard Hanna of NY became the first congressional Republican to announce he will support Hillary Clinton for president.
They are presently erring in just the same way. Trump, a NY developer making his first run at public office, has made traditional Republican donors uneasy with inflammatory statements about women, Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in their primary races. “I think there’s something to be said about respecting those voters”, Ryan said. “Don’t waste your time commenting on the Republicans”.
Trump on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that the GOP frustration was hurting his campaign, even as he openly contemplated an Election Day loss.
On “CBS This Morning”, Manafort said that while Trump didn’t take a position in the primary, “he’s going to support Paul Ryan”. Combined, they provide him the motive and the means-the vocabulary-to violate the fragile norms governing our elections. Let’s say she actually could get the endorsement of Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Jeb Bush.
In Portland, some people at Trump’s rally said the candidate should stop getting distracted.
Facing an opponent in Hillary Clinton that only 37 percent of state voters view favorably, Trump is trailing by 9.4 percentage points in a four-way match up with the Democrat, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were described as “circumspect” and “not giddy” by a person who spoke to them recently. “I’m not quite there yet”, Trump said in the interview.
Clinton’s reliance on Trump’s misfires, rather than the strength or resonance of her own message, is an inherently risky strategy, Dowd said. “He just can’t do it”.
“We do take seriously, as we always do, our responsibility to monitor and preserve the integrity of the voting process. He just prefers to fire at himself than Hillary Clinton”, Rothenberg said.
In a base election year in which partisan loyalists are expected to decide the victor, 30 percent of both strong and leaning Republicans don’t at the moment intend to vote for Trump.
Under the United States laws, it is customary that the official nominees of both parties are given classified briefings after their convention.
The recent Democratic upswing has also benefited President Obama, who has 54-percent job approval rating vs. 45 percent who disapprove of his performance, according to a CNN poll. When asked if she’d support Clinton over Trump during an appearance on Bloomberg Politics’ With All Due Respect, she answered, “I probably will vote for her”.
This is shaping up as a dismal year for Republican presidential hopes.
This week, his refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin or Sen. “The only need we have for an intervention is maybe with some media types who keep saying things that aren’t true”.
Only seven per cent of people polled said that they tended to hide their voting preferences; 58 per cent said they didn’t mind but didn’t go out of their way to tell anyone. “It doesn’t help him with skeptical Republicans”, Galdieri said.
Benenson noted that Republicans themselves have begun an “organic” effort to encourage one another to reject Trump.
USA voters are more accepting of differences on the issues because that is a legitimate part of electoral discourse. But doing so doesn’t require her to pinch policy ideas from Paul Ryan.
In early July, the speaker said “I’ve long thought Kansas should be represented on the House Committee on Agriculture”.
“The media is blowing this out of proportion significantly”, said New Hampshire Rep. Stephen Stepanek.
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Analysts caution that a more accurate picture of the presidential race should develop once the potential polling effects of the parties’ conventions settle, but other surveys released since last week’s Democratic National Convention have likewise shown Mr. Trump trailing in key states such as Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and MI.
