Donald Trump waves after speaking at a campaign victory party after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nominee following the results of the IN state primary.
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But for now national polls, most of which have given Clinton a big lead, “do not deserve your attention”.
On Wednesday, the morning after Trump emerged as the presumptive presidential nominee, phones at the office of Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson were ringing off the hook with calls from small-government Republicans who feel they can not get behind Trump.
Prior to his IN primary win that secured his path to the nomination, only 15 governors, senators, and representatives had publicly backed his candidacy.
When the former secretary of State was asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday whether she was ready for Trump’s unconventional campaign style – which often gets down to personal attacks – in a general election, she pointed to her years of experience in politics and said she was prepared and planned to stick to the issues. But with Trump the de facto nominee, Baker says he will divert his attention away from the national race.
That strategy won’t change now, campaign officials say, even as the primary technically continues for another five weeks. His clear and decisive victory tamped down any belief that Republicans would eventually coalesce around an alternative candidate, and left Trump as the presumptive nominee.
Trump’s opposition to free trade is at odds with the views of many Republicans, especially in the party’s business wing. And voters don’t appear thrilled at the prospect: Clinton and Trump are both more strongly disliked than any nominee at this point in the past 10 presidential cycles.
But the wounds from a brutal primary battle were still raw among many Republican loyalists who simply cannot bear to support Trump because they worry he could spell disaster for the party in November. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse tweeted Tuesday night that his earlier statement that he would never support Trump stands. “And I think we should perhaps have more than three, if you want to know the truth, because there is a lot going on”.
“Mr Trump is going to have to work hard to bring the party together”, she said. She will need the party establishment to drag her across the line.
“Nobody in our organisation supported Trump from the outset”.
Since launching his White House bid last summer as a long shot amid a crowded field that included governors, former governors and U.S. senators, Trump repeatedly defied predictions that his campaign would implode.
The New York businessman’s immediate challenge is to mend deep fissures within the Republican Party, easing tensions with party loyalists who are appalled by his bombastic, bullying style, his denigrating comments about women and his proposals to build a wall on the border with Mexico and deport 11 million illegal immigrants.
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“I am confident that I can unite much of it, some of it I don’t want”, Trump said on NBC’s Today show. Ryan added he did not want “to underplay what he accomplished” but said he hoped “our nominee aspires to be Lincoln and Reagan-esque-that that person advances the principles of our party and appeals to a wide, vast majority of Americans”.
