U.S. Representative Renee Ellmers, a Republican from North Carolina who has endorsed Trump, told Reuters the campaign would begin raising money for the party. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich ending their campaigns after big losses in Indiana’s primary Tuesday.
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Does he hope to persuade Trump that the GOP is the party of the open door?
Just days into his tenure as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump is brushing off a stinging rebuke from the GOP’s top elected official while vowing to unite a fractured party.
Their reluctance to embrace Trump sends an unmistakable signal to their extensive fundraising networks, which include most of the GOP’s best-connected donors.
Graham joined Bush among other Republican leaders refusing to support Trump and announced on Friday that he will also skip the Republican convention in July. She says Trump can argue about the “peace and prosperity” in the 1990s and she’s going to talk about the future. “And we don’t always nominate a Lincoln or a Reagan every four years, but we hope that our nominee aspires to be Lincoln- or Reagan-esque – that that person advances the principles of our party and appeals to a wide, vast majority of Americans”.
“We have repeatedly called on Pat Toomey to distance himself from those and other comments of Donald Trump’s and he’s refused”, said Katie McGinty, Democrats’ Senate nominee in Pennsylvania.
“As a result, normal Americans don’t like either party”, Sasse says, and “young people despise the two parties even more than the general electorate”.
He said Thursday in a statement that he would be “putting up substantial money toward the general election”, following the $36 million in loans he previously made. But it’s also clear that many voters in this election will simply really, really dislike the other party.
And while Clinton is still engaged in a primary election battle, with Sanders’ vowing to soldier on until the last of the Democratic primary voters have cast their votes, despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the delegate count, Fallon said that’s not a distraction from preparations underway for the general election.
Maybe Trump’s critics are right that he will lead the party to a major defeat.
Trump’s statement has backfired on him, though, resulting in renewed excitement over the prospect of a woman holding office. Trump, as of Wednesday night, had not a single fundraising event on the books. And a new poll suggests that a Trump-Clinton contest would be an overwhelmingly negative fight.
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“Ryan champions free-trade agreements, worldwide military engagement, and sweeping overhauls of Social Security and Medicare, whereas Trump is an avowed opponent of recent trade deals, foreign interventions and proposed changes to entitlement programs”, the Post reported. Trump’s campaign said it will be coordinating with the RNC, ramping up battleground state plans and deliberating and vetting potential runningmates. She’s also backed up by several well-funded political action committees.
