And Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, tweeted that Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee Tuesday night. Ben Sasse and former Oklahoma Sen. It ends with Jeb Bush claiming the real estate mogul “needs therapy”.
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“If she wants to go the low road, I’m fine with that and if she wants to go the high road – which I probably prefer – I would be fine with that”, Trump said.
“I’m with her”, said Mark Salter, a top campaign aide to 2008 Repub- lican nominee John McCain. “Our strategy has been and continues to be one that involves winning the nomination at an open convention”.
Still, Kasich had planned to continue his presidential bid as the lone and unlikely alternative to Trump’s candidacy – even though he had won only his home state, had picked up only nine delegates since mid-March and trailed Trump by almost 900 delegates. Other prominent figures, like former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Vice President Dick Cheney, have called on the party to unify behind him to defeat Clinton in the November 8 presidential election. But Clinton already has turned her attention to the general election.
“Mr. Trump is going to have to work hard to bring the party together”, she said. (“We have to make sure that Donald Trump, in his fleeting six months left as a Republican, that he can’t permanently damage the party’s credibility.”) The brand problem is the possibility that associating Trump with Republicanism would cause some voters – especially younger ones new to the political system – to identify as Democrats over the long run. Shots of Trump’s demeaning comments toward women and remarks about one of his ex-wives play as Republican Sen. In the grand scheme of things what the Fed does is likely to be a bigger influence on global capital markets than what economic policies a future United States president might seek to enact. “I just really believe that the Republican Party has been conned here”. Most people assume Clinton is the prohibitive favorite in this contest, and that’s a fair extrapolation of current polling that shows Trump would start the race as a historically unpopular candidate. “The people of our country changed me… with stories of their lives”, he said.
Only about half of Indiana’s Republican primary voters said they were excited or optimistic about any of their remaining candidates becoming president, according to exit polling conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.
Republican Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska made clear she would support the nominee but is not comfortable with Trump, in an interview with Nebraska Radio Network.
Similar responses prevailed among Clinton supporters.
Sanders has conceded his strategy hinges on persuading superdelegates to back him over the former secretary of state.
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Politically this will pit the Republican’s least popular candidate on record against Hilary Clinton – who also happens to be the least popular candidate the Democrat’s have fielded, for job of leader of the free world. And they think Trump would do a better job than Clinton addressing it, by a 50% to 45% margin. “But I couldn’t close the gap in pledged delegates”.
