Benny is silent, so the mugger says again, “Your money or your life!”.
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After months of denial that the billionaire businessman could swipe the nomination from more establishment candidates, senators faced reality on Wednesday, a day after Trump’s wins in seven states cemented his Republican front-runner status. But given his polling lead there could be only two ways Republicans can stop him now: One is a sudden, mass movement toward another candidate – which was complicated Tuesday as everyone else vowed to keep campaigning.
The most consequential night of voting so far in the presidential campaign crystallized, in jarring and powerful fashion, the remarkably divergent fortunes of the two major parties vying for the White House.
Previewing her line of attack against Trump, Packer said: “This guy isn’t a conservative”. I’m sure I’m going to get along great with him. “He’s gonna have to pay a big price, OK?” Barring a stunning transformation by Trump, that won’t be the case.
Duke says in the video, “specifically, I have said clearly… that I am not endorsing Donald Trump”.
“It’s becoming obvious that supporting or not supporting (Trump) isn’t a political choice”. One of the names frequently mentioned in this hypothetical is Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, even though he has shown no desire to run another campaign but has shown a zest for attacking Trump.
Yes, there are now woefully belated efforts to block his nomination. So today I want to be very clear about something: If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican party there can be no evasion and no games. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), explaining why he couldn’t fail to support Trump in the general election, despite the risks.
Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, was pushing for Rubio and Cruz to come up with a unity ticket to counter Trump. “And to be candid, I think the American people should be angrier than they are”.
This would be a stronger argument if Trump’s record were not one of doing whatever he needs to do at any given moment to serve his own needs.
Rep. Scott Garrett, who represents a competitive northern New Jersey district, told CNN his constituents know Trump better than most others across the country. Maybe he would appoint someone who favored changing US libel laws or had a conveniently expansive view of presidential powers.
“I signed up for the party of Abraham Lincoln – not the party of David Duke and Donald Trump…” And yes, the other party suffers from that ailment, too. But most political analysts don’t expect it to be much of a Democratic race once it gets to California. Even if he’s winning states, he might be kept short of the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination. His heated rhetoric about minority groups and immigrants is deeply troubling to party leaders who have spent years trying to make inroads with Latino and other minority constituencies. Can party leaders now rise above the party to save it?
“It may be necessary for men and women of principle within the party to set the self-detonation sequence as they escape the ship to a new party”.
Trump: “Well, you’ve got David Duke just joined – a bigot, a racist, a problem”. “If the Republican Party were an airplane and you’re looking out the window, you’d see some pieces of the surface flying off. And you’d be wondering whether the engine or a wing is next”.
Republican operatives, party leaders and conservative thinkers are increasingly warning that Trump is not a true conservative, and that his penchant for offensive language proves that he’s an entertainer who should have no role shaping the future of the Republican Party.
Reuters reports U.S. Republicans are split as they elect a candidate for this year’s presidential elections, with some members unhappy that Trump is now leading the race for delegates.
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“The establishment Republicans are all bed-wetting over this and they don’t seem to understand that we have an election”, the former Arkansas governor said on Fox News.
