Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., described Trump’s separate meeting with Republican senators as “cordial” and “meaty” on policy and said he thought it had been effective in swaying some senators to be less skeptical of Trump’s candidacy.
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According to the Washington Post, the most tense exchange Trump had with a member occurred with Sen.
First reported by The Washington Post, Mr. Flake’s office verified the exchange.
“My position remains, I want to support the nomination”.
Gingrich, who campaigned with Trump in Cincinnati Wednesday, also confirmed Thursday that he was being vetted for the position, though he qualified the remark by saying, “I have no idea what that means in terms of Donald Trump”.
Kirk said later, “We haven’t seen a personality like his too much in the Midwest”.
During a campaign event in OH on Wednesday night, For Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich introduced the Republican nominee Donald Trump, marking the first time Gingrich has opened for the businessman, just days before Trump said he would announce his vice presidential pick.
“There was no talk of pivoting”.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., echoed Ryan’s sentiment, telling ABC News it was an “extremely positive” meeting. “I remain one of them based on tone and tenor”.
Trump won grassroots support during months of state-by-state nominating contests for the November 8 election with a pledge to ban Muslims temporarily from entering the United States and to build a wall on the US border with Mexico.
Trump’s former rival, Texas Sen.
Donald Trump may find he hasn’t quite gotten Ted Cruz out of his hair yet. But now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is being turned down by some whom he may have asked. Rice, like Sanford, plans to attend the convention. “It’s clear that our party is committed to defeating Hillary Clinton and Democrats this fall”.
On NBC’s “Today” show, Chaffetz said he “absolutely” would have had the Federal Bureau of Investigation director before his committee even if the decision had been to move toward an indictment. “Otherwise we’re just wasting everyone’s time and money”.
At one point, Trump turned directly to Ryan and seemed to acknowledge the lingering concerns.
That explanation was well-received. Article I, the one asked about by Sanford’s colleague, lays out to powers of Congress. One of the articles Trump vowed to protect is defunct: Article VII laid out how the Constitution would be ratified by the thirteen original states.
Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said Trump repeatedly said “we need to stick together”.
Outside the meeting, a small group of protesters chanted and waved signs accusing Trump of sending jobs overseas.
But while he’s not interested in becoming vice president, Corker said he expects to continue acting as an adviser to Trump during the campaign and that he would be open to serving in Trump’s administration. “And in the middle of this, you get this kind of smear?” he said.
Trump supporters who were present said they welcomed the reassurance. “I’m not planning on attending the convention”, Dent told reporters. But the news site’s source for the story added that given Trump’s personality, “I doubt anyone really fully knows what he’s going to do”. He was referring to Trump having praised the late Iraqi dictator’s terrorist-killing prowess.
Trump defended himself against some of his harshest Senate critics.
Trump delivered a “great unifying speech”, Price said, and his listeners were “very receptive”.
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Cramer paraphrased what Trump said: “Here I was very critical of Saddam Hussein, saying he’s a very very bad guy, evil guy”. Many saw the symbol as a Star of David and considered the image to be anti-Semitic, and Ryan and others criticized the retweet. Trump argues the star in his tweet was a regular star that a sheriff might use.
