His critics say he’s the least prepared candidate for president in modern American history; a man whose isolationist and xenophobic rhetoric is alarming to many at home and overseas.
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One of those endangered Republicans, Rob Portman of OH, has said for months he would support whoever is the GOP nominee.
“Their standard-bearer at the moment is Donald Trump”, Obama said in a hastily scheduled appearance in the White House briefing room, ostensibly to discuss the economy. He unleashed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which have led to the deaths of over a million people and whose effects are still with the world today.
Dole, who was his party’s nominee in 1996, will also attend the Republican convention in Cleveland in July, where Trump is expected to be nominated.
Trump spokeswoman Elizabeth Emken downplayed the tension on CNN, arguing that it’s “going to take more than 24 hours” to calm “frayed nerves” from the primary race.
And that is what’s really going on here.
Gingrich said he was disappointed in what Ryan said and encouraged him to recognize that in spite of his shortcomings, Trump is who Republican voters have chosen as the man they want as the next president.
“I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan’s agenda”.
“So many people, different people, have different feelings”, Knight said.
“Not just Republican officials, but more importantly, Republican voters are going to have to make a decision as to whether this is the guy who speaks for them and represents their values”, he said. “It’s something the party should get solved quickly”, Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends”.
Clinton has a higher probability than Trump of becoming the next president, but the gap between them narrowed this week, according to the online political stock market PredictIt.
“This is scary. Trump is risky for Arizona families”, she said in an email to supporters that added, “This is our chance to defeat McCain”.
The Wisconsin state Senate’s top Republican is calling for the party to coalesce around Donald Trump. People loved it. And you know what? I’m voting for Donald Trump because I don’t think we can afford four more years of liberal incompetence. Some even worry that a Democratic landslide could endanger the GOP’s majority in the House of Representatives. “That’s hard to do”. McConnell has been a leader of what has been referred to as the Republican “establishment”, and has previously told Republican Congressional candidates that they should avoid tying themselves to Trump if need be.
Ryan isn’t the only one who has refused to endorse the businessman-turned-presidential hopeful.
One of his objectives will be to provide political cover for his 246 House Republicans so they can choose to embrace or run away from Trump, depending on their home districts’ politics, with the goal of preserving control of the House, analysts said.
The Trump campaign will be looking for other endorsements in the coming days from Republican stalwarts. “They have been treated so badly for so long that it is about time for politicians to put them first”.
“Everybody writes off a party after it has a bad election”, Winston said.
“Republicans are committed to preventing what would be a third term of Barack Obama and restoring economic and national security after eight years of a Democrat in the White House”, McConnell said.
But never again will I underestimate Trump, having done this a month ago, rashly predicting he would lose the Republican nomination.
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The greater dilemma – the fear they won’t acknowledge, at least in public – is that Trump might actually win.
