Trump’s campaign has placed strong emphasis on winning Pennsylvania, which last went for a Republican candidate in 1988.
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Comments by Trump, and the GOP leadership’s apparent inability to redirect the campaign toward traditional conservative values, have made the lifelong Republican wonder whether he is in the right political party.
All Trump and his daily fumbles are doing now is opening the door wider and wider for the libertarian twins, ex-Republican governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld.
But Baker has refused to endorse Trump and has publicly criticized his statements.
Despite the resistance of their party’s leaders, many Republicans say they support Trump because he’s better than the alternative, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
“Most likely Trump”, Halley said when I asked her for whom she was planning on voting for. Rand Paul in the state’s GOP primary. During the 2008 election in Philadelphia, two members of the New Black Panther Movement were charged with voter intimidation after they stationed themselves outside of polling locations.
Rep. Jim Lyons, R-Andover, campaigned and raised money for Texas Sen. In her primary campaign, she won a record number of endorsements for a non-incumbent from Democratic party actors across the ideological spectrum.
After months of racially charged violence between Trump supporters and protesters at his rallies, the comments raised the specter of confrontations on Election Day in precincts with many minority voters. Trump said Americans are exhausted of lies from leaders of the Democratic party. “She’s totally untrustworthy and unfit to be president”. It’s an instinct that Trump’s opponents say a president can’t possess.
There were no aces for Kasich in the third-party deck, which is why the deck with all the aces to become the next president of The Ohio State University is awaiting Mr. Kasich to shuffle it to his advantage. “But that’s how these things go”, he said this week.
At The Weekly Standard, Jay Cost takes heart at the prospect that Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO whose run for the GOP nomination never really took off, might put her name forward to succeed Reince Priebus as the chair of the Republican National Committee. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea’s education”, Clinton said.
In the North of Boston region, he overwhelmingly carried communities with large blue-collar votes such as Haverhill, Methuen, Salisbury and Beverly, as well as affluent towns such as Marblehead, Swampscott and North Andover.
Trump is trying to adjust to a general election.
The Republican nominee declared Friday there’s only one way he could lose the state of Pennsylvania: if he’s cheated out of it. “I would’ve said, ‘There have been some irregularities and we want to make sure that those don’t occur'”.
But Trump issued serious warnings.
Christian conservative Carol M. Swain, a professor of politics and law at Vanderbilt University, agreed.
“The Republicans have a tougher path – not my fault”, he said.
“There’s really no good place for Republicans who regard him as unqualified and a danger to their party”, said Cunningham.
The ND CR statement refrains from disparaging conservatives who don’t support Trump, though, instead encouraging them to support Republican candidates for other offices at the polls.
Trump has been mired in repeated controversies in recent days.
But since officially becoming the party’s standard-bearer, at the urging of his aides, he has given more policy-driven speeches using a teleprompter. “Get over it! We were just having fun”. “We’re going to make them happy”.
Dillon said Republicans who back an “unhinged” Trump not only are putting at risk their personal reputations but also the GOP’s future.
Whatever the meeting’s outcome, in the conspiracy-obsessed minds of many Trump supporters, the letter from the Republican operatives and former elected officials will no doubt be seen as evidence of one of Trump’s favorite incitements: his assertion that “the system is rigged” against him. “If the team doesn’t win, we get four more years of Obama, basically – or worse”. He weakens US moral authority as the leader of the free world. But Trump initially doubled down on this remarks, repeating the claim several times without any sense he was joking.
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The RNC this week announced Ashley Bell as the senior strategist and national director of African-American political engagement, Shannon Reeves as the senior adviser to the RNC’s political department, and Elroy Sailor as a senior adviser to the chairman.
