“You don’t sit there jealous and sick to your stomach”, he said.
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So, while many in the party are speaking out against Trump (some of it is well deserved and warranted), I wish these same people would be just as vehement in fighting against the radical liberal agenda that President Obama and Hillary Clinton have been promoting. SCOTUS too important to lose for generations.
Blinking back tears as he spoke, an impassioned Romney said many have asked him to get off his “high horse” and back Trump, seeing presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as unacceptable.
Because, you know, running Donald Trump won’t just lose us the presidency, it will make our party more of a laughingstock than it already is. Ms. Whitman could not immediately be reached for comment. There are none within the Republican National Committee (RNC), National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), nor any of the presidential campaigns. Taking a long time to distance himself from a leader of the KKK.
Whitman also gave $100,000 in March to a conservative super-PAC that opposes Trump. She has been explicit about her disdain for him. “Look at the comments he’s made about women, about Muslims, about reporters”.
Mitt Romney on Saturday torched Donald Trump and the Republicans who failed to stop his climb to the party’s presidential nomination, saying the current fortunes of the GOP are “breaking my heart”.
In an emailed statement, Mr. Trump dismissed Ms. Whitman’s comments.
Add Paul Singer’s name to the list of prominent Republican donors and officials who won’t take part in the party convention next month, where Donald Trump is expected to be annointed the presidential nominee.
“It wasn’t the kind of response that I would expect when 50 people have perished”, Corker said, according to NBC News. “But I do not anticipate voting for her this fall”.
He was forced to respond Friday when pressed by Ms. He’s now attacking this past weekend all the other Republican who ran for president as well, saying they should have done a better job. Turning to him at the panel discussion, Brown told Ryan that one morning, one of her sons had asked why he had endorsed Trump, expressing his disappointment.
The attendee present for the exchange said Ryan appeared slightly rattled, but handled the question well.
Ryan, addressing the 300 attendees of the session, explained the difficulty he had with the decision to endorse, the Post said, including weathering pressure from House Republicans to lend his backing to Trump.
Trump has sought to unify Republicans around his candidacy since clinching the party’s nomination in early May, but the billionaire businessman has grown frustrated in recent weeks with the pace of that coalescing – and the heavy fire he sustained from his own party amid his racial comments about the judge.
In light of the controversy, conservative pundit and radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt called on the Republican Party last week to change the rules of the convention and nominate another candidate. “Just please be quiet”, Trump said. “Tone down for what?”
In an interview with CNN, Romney said he will not vote for either Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, or Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November 8 election.
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Mr. Ryan, in one of his appearances at the retreat, tried to infuse what little humor he could into the situation.
