“These are highly sophisticated killers, and when they give $5 million, or $2 million or $1 million to Jeb [Bush], they have him just like a puppet”, Trump said at the Iowa State Fair previous year.
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Trump has consistently declined to release his tax returns, which would offer a fuller portrait of exactly how much money the billionaire has earned.
Democrat Hillary Clinton created a similar fund previous year that links her campaign with the Democratic National Committee and 32 state party committees.
OK, the election is over and Donald Trump won. “In the last days of his life this was an issue that was pressing in his mind. disgust for Donald Trump’s xenophobia”, his son Jim said.
The establishment Republicans who were rankled by his fiery rhetoric on trade, immigration and Muslims in a primary election campaign would eventually line up behind him in the general election, they predicted.
Up for re-election as national committeewoman from IL is Demetra DeMonte from Pekin, who doesn’t view Trump’s candidacy as creating controversy.
Political veteran Paul Manafort is running the convention operation; RNC Finance Chairman Lew Eisenberg will head up the joint fundraising project.
Sheldon Adelson, the casino owner who is among the GOP’s biggest donors, could give more than $100 million to back Trump.
Perry has changed his position dramatically since the early Republican primaries. Ted Cruz (R-TX), also doesn’t buy that Trump is a true conservative.
In November, in all of Richland and Lexington counties, we will have those two not-really competitive County Council races, three House races and three Senate races – not all of which will be even remotely competitive – and token opposition for our congressional offices. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who sits on the armed services committee, said Trump is “going to need to learn”. The central divide in the race among Democrats has been whether the political realities of Washington or the material needs of the nation and the world should prevail. This seems true in ME, too, where a March poll from Critical Insights found that 64 percent of those surveyed found Trump untrustworthy with Clinton not far behind at 55 percent.
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Trump, who has alarmed many with a call for barring all Muslims from entering the United States, demoted his proposed ban last week, saying it was “just a suggestion”. And his aides, including Manafort, are shuttling between meetings with members of Congress and policy think tanks taking suggestions for policy papers. “The (Republicans) I beat are still giving me advice”.
