The Harvard Republican Club, the nation’s oldest College Republicans chapter, will not endorse Donald Trump – the first time in its 128 years the club has not supported the GOP nominee.
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The endorsement of Ryan is unlikely to assuage some Republicans who are concerned by the combative and provocative Trump campaign and have grown frustrated that the almost daily controversies have made it more hard to focus on the perceived weaknesses of the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. “But we will disagree as friends and never stop working together toward victory”.
One online betting site, William Hill, is offering 10/1 odds that Trump won’t be the official Republican nominee on the November ballot, company spokesman Graham Sharpe told the SFGate.
Former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.), a Republican operative and advisor to the Romney 2012 campaign, appeared on MSNBC Friday morning to criticize Donald Trump.
The moves came after many Republicans urged Trump to correct course following a tumultuous week that has seen falling opinion poll numbers.
Trump earlier this week refused to endorse Ryan, telling The Washington Post he was “not quite there yet” – almost the same phrase Ryan had used about Trump before finally endorsing him. Ryan noted that when he endorsed Trump he wasn’t giving him a “blank check”.
On Friday Trump also expressed support for McCain, saying he holds him “in the highest esteem” and praised his lengthy service to the United States, a further effort at damage control.
On Friday, Trump also read out endorsements of senators John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.
“This is truly one of the most important elections in my lifetime”, Trump said at an election rally in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin. “So in our shared mission, to make America great again, I support and endorse our speaker of the House, Paul Ryan”.
Nehlen insisted it wasn’t awkward to stand in a sea of people cheering and applauding as Trump announced his endorsement of the House speaker. Probably not since Trump really isn’t a Republican.
Clinton now has an 81% chance of winning the election compared to Trump, who has a 19% chance of winning, which is compared to a July 30 analysis that had Trump in the lead by a 0.2 percentage point over Clinton.
Trump called his Democratic opponent “a risky liar”, “an unbalanced person”, “pretty close to unhinged”, “totally unfit to lead”, and lacking “the judgment, temperament and moral character to lead the country”.
Trump alarmed American voters and his own supporters when he urged Russian Federation to find and release emails that disappeared from Clinton’s private server while she was secretary of state. “She’s weak. She’s a weak person. She’s actually not strong enough to be president”.
Looming over Clinton’s appearance in front of a ballroom full of journalists in Washington, D.C., was her relative lack of interactions with reporters.
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Clinton started the week with a hefty flub Sunday when she told Fox News’s host Chris Wallace that Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey had agreed that her answers about her emails were truthful. Schricker told Pence in front of more than 300 people in the audience.
