“For a lot of people, again, who take their vote seriously and who really see this as a crossroads kind of election, I am asking people to come join this campaign”, she told CBS’ “Face the Nation” in an interview on Friday in Oakland, Calif. “And I’ve had a lot of outreach on Republicans in the last days who say that they are interested in talking about that”.
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Protesters demonstrating against the visit of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stand near the site of his rally and in view of Mount Baker Saturday, May 7, 2016, in Lynden, Wash. “If she can’t take it, that’s her problem”. Then, the image he projects to the world.
Bush’s refusal to support Trump comes as a growing number of high-profile figures in the Republican Party have declined to get behind the controversial real-estate mogul. “It’s a nightmare. I’m living in a nightmare”. The most vocal members of the anti-Trump faction wanted these lines to be much harsher. “And some of these women were destroyed, not by him, but by the way that Hillary Clinton treated them after everything went down”, he said. Another untested theory is that his support can be so robust from white voters – who have steadily trended Republican – that he can capitalize on Clinton’s unfavorable numbers and win.
What may be surprising to some, however, is that Trump, to many red-state conservatives, represents a more moderate and pro-Main Street outlook.
“Clinton probably has a lot more pathways to 270 with Trump on the ticket”, he said.
“Where the model broke down is with Trump’s ability to expand the scope of participation in Republican primaries”, said Mark Jones, a political scientist at Rice University, who used the untested-model analogy.
Ryan said his meeting with Trump would occur next Thursday and that Trump also would meet with other House GOP leaders.
While some Republicans in Congress reject Trump, other current and former lawmakers have said they will back the reality TV star as the nominee – if nothing else, than to block Democrat Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House.
Nevertheless, large parts of the Republican establishment can’t believe that primary voters fell for Trump.
Some prominent Republicans are mulling the possibility – however remote – of supporting a third-party candidate. When people are mad enough to follow a charlatan like Trump, there is very little that can dissuade them.
Mr Trump’s final two opponents, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich, bowed out after Mr Trump’s win in the May 3 in primary, where he captured 53 per cent of the vote. Another salesman, David Bauer, 69, met Bezant as he walked in. Bezant asked Bauer, who had also supported Cruz in the caucuses.
“But I have a nice relationship with him”.
“It’s basically really, really late in the game to get onto the ballot”, said Elaine Kamarck, founding director of the Center for Effective Management at the Brookings Institution.
Not everyone in the store was as sanguine.
McCain said what Trump said about him, “that’s fine”. About 40 per cent of those who signed up on Cruz’s website made a donation, averaging around US$20 per person, Anderson said. “If we do away with the fundamental strength of the conservative movement, which is our ideas and values and principles, then you don’t have anything left but politics”.
Pawlowski said she might actually end up voting for Clinton: “I would actually pick her over Trump”. “I actually don’t think so”, Trump told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday. “And I hope to”. Rand Paul, an early dropout. He pledged that he would support the nominee.
Donald Trump has become the presumptive nominee, but while his primary battle is all but over, there seems to be a war going on inside the Republican party.
Clinton also criticized Trump for his suggestion that the USA target the families of terrorists. And we’ll just see what happens. “If we were voting today I’d have to hold my nose – he’s boorish, he’s not a conservative”.
To be sure, Polk County, Ga., is one of the most pro-Trump corners of the country. As Alex Pareene pointed out, the way to beat Trump is to get under his skin, to wound his delicate and boundless ego.
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Acknowledging it would be popular to say he’d rip up the deal, Trump says instead he’d seek to renegotiate it and “police” Iran for violations. “I certainly could have gotten him over the ledge”.
