Since launching his campaign, Trump has pushed back against calls by some of his closest aides and family members to adopt a more “presidential tone”.
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Earlier Tuesday, a seemingly chastened Trump gave a scripted speech in which he sought to reassure party colleagues that his remarks in recent days, branded by many of those colleagues as racist, did not represent the candidate he was about to become.
On the other hand, Republicans (or what pass for Republicans today) have anointed Trump, a businessman of questionable ethics, suspect personal beliefs and an unapologetic bully, who has never served in public office and who seems to revel in his ignorance of national policy and global affairs.
She said “Whether you can change anything from a simple majority to a super majority, I don’t think that’s legal”.
One by one, Harrison on Wednesday called out more than half a dozen elected Republicans in SC, some of whom have offered lukewarm endorsements of Trump as other GOP candidates left the race. “We welcome Sanders supporters with open arms” he said. He said the Trump campaign opposes any rules changes that would affect the Cleveland convention. “It’s totally off the wall, and I don’t even have words to explain it”.
“We got the job done in New Hampshire and took 36% in the first-in-the-nation primary with everyone on the planet saying we didn’t have a ground game”, he said.
Black District Republicans aren’t excited about their presumptive presidential nominee and don’t plan to push District statehood at their national convention next month.
Trump tried to turn his combative reputation into a positive, pledging to fight against special interests and a rigged system and in favor of American values.
Donald Trump stuck to the script during his victory speech Tuesday night and, in doing so, delivered some devastating blows to rival Hillary Clinton. Like many of Mr. Trump’s claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked.
In San Diego, Republicans Denise Gitsham, a businesswoman, and Jacquie Atkinson, a defense consultant and former Marine, are fighting to advance against Democrat Scott Peters, who upset labor for supporting Obama on trade and has amassed more than $2 million for his campaign.
One hopeful scenario envisions a third-party candidate winning Utah, where Trump was trounced in the Republican primary. “As soon as you get somebody out of their comfort zone, then the public kind of goes, ‘What’s this?’ You need to keep Trump in his comfort zone”.
Several Republicans who have been approached by the campaign say the organization has struggled to hire even for some of the most basic functions – like communications and advance.
And Trump’s birtherism? Hey, who hasn’t harbored suspicions that the president might have been born in Kenya and covered up his secret with a fraudulent birth certificate?
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“We’re just waiting to hear from them”, said North Carolina GOP Chairman Robin Hayes, who points out that the state party has a field organization that’s prepared to plug into the campaign once they reach out. I’ve spent years telling everyone I know that America is going down the tubes: That all this accumulated ignorance and stupidity will finally destroy us.
