Let me say this, the man deserves a ton of credit for an incredible achievement, which is to bring millions of people into this party and to have a very impressive victory.
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The pledge, Rubio said, puts him in a different position than House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said last week he’s not ready to support Trump.
Still, ahead of the meeting, Ryan’s negative stance appeared to be providing cover for some vulnerable Republicans who are anxious to distance themselves from Trump and his controversial comments about women, Latinos, prisoners of war and others. Anne Ashley says she thinks Trump is “becoming more aware of the gravity of becoming president and becoming more composed”.
Cruz’s supporters will also try to exert their influence on the Rules Committee, though a close adviser to the senator said yesterday that there would be no effort to attempt to engineer Cruz’s nomination through procedural maneuvering at the convention.
Johnny Isakson of Georgia said: “The only thing I can do is get re-elected so we have a Republican majority in the Senate”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has so far withheld his support for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, offered yesterday to bow out of the Republican National Convention if Trump requests it. I would remind Mr. Scott that Mr. Trump did win the Republican primary in the state of Vermont, but then, perhaps Mr. Scott does not care what Republicans think. Meanwhile white voters said they would vote for him 49 to 32 percent while non-white voters said they would vote for Clinton 76 to 14 percent. If I really wanted to run for president, I could have run in 2012 and 2016.
Trump quickly cut him off, saying that Haley was not on that list (she’s also said she didn’t want to be on it anyway). Ryan said last week that the bulk of the burden is on Trump to unify the party, but that he wants to help in that process, and is open to supporting him. “And the two candidates are about where their party predecessors were at this point in OH and Florida”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, in a memo accompanying the poll results.
“And that’s certainly not me”, he later added. “In short I find his candidacy highly problematic”, Toomey wrote of Trump.
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“I think this is a time for unity”.
