He dismissed nay-sayers such as long-time critic and leader of the house Paul Ryan, saying that he would take the White House in November regardless of whether he had the backing of the Republican Party.
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“As far as I know there have not been in-depth policy discussions with the campaign as to what this means”, said Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), who chairs the Financial Services subcommittee on monetary policy and trade, and was in NY with Hensarling. This is too tough to do it alone.
Asked about Trump’s comments on Wednesday in which he said Republican congressional leaders should “be quiet”, Ryan said, “You can’t make this up sometimes”. If it is, and this isn’t the real Trump, then who is he and what, if anything, does he stand for?
Referring specifically to the comments Trump made about Judge Curiel who presided over the Trump University case in which the candidate openly accused the judge of bias based on his ethnicity, Ingraham said that GOP leadership should sit down and shut up. “That’s never happened before and I think it would be a hard, heavy lift”.
Most Republicans are merely holding out on one hope or another.
In light of the Republican Party’s claim to be the standard-bearer of traditional Christian values, it is incredibly hypocritical to see this drama unfold with the support of powerful Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
Asked how many more times he would be called on to do so, Ryan said: “I don’t know the answer to that question either”.
Trump on Wednesday said at a rally in Atlanta that “we have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques and we have to check other places because this is a problem that, if we don’t solve it, it’s going to eat our country alive”.
And while Republicans have been plenty critical of President Obama’s use of executive orders and agency rulemakings to advance his environmental, labor, immigration and civil rights agendas, Ryan has also betrayed some anxiety about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his my-way-or-the-highway approach to politics. Trump would continue, telling the GOP leaders, “Just please be quiet”.
The mixed Republican reactions to Trump’s proposals are unsurprising given their stances at the start of the campaign season. They are working on a robust effort to convince delegates that they have the authority and the ability to vote for whomever they want.
In recent days, RNC chairman Reince Priebus has privately grumbled that his advice doesn’t seem welcome with Trump, according to one RNC insider.
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Tuesday that “we can not continue to be politically correct”. Meanwhile, anti-Trumpers of various stripes across the party have been whispering to reporters for months that they fear Trump is out on a self-promoting lark here and either doesn’t care if he becomes president or doesn’t want to win because he doesn’t want the responsibility of governing.
