“Even opponents of equality in the United States, especially among Republican opponents of equality, are on notice that they can not vilify the LGBT community as they have in the past”. Senior party officials are anxious that would essentially leave Trump out to dry, exacerbating a fundraising gap with Hillary Clinton that is already likely to eclipse $500 million. He later noted that Senate Republicans had offered Trump advice on improving his tone: “We tried to offer words of public encouragement at times that were important, but were discouraged by the results”.
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Currently Johnson is polling at 13% with Trump and Clinton at 35% each (which leaves 17% not accounted for in those numbers).
But the critics overlook the “historic” nature of Trump’s speech, said Gregory Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, which advocates in the party for LGBT issues. Only 29 percent of adults had a positive view of Trump. Ted Cruz, Trump’s former GOP presidential primary rival, who underscored in a statement Sunday that radical Islamist groups like ISIS “target the gay and lesbian community” and accused Democrats of insufficiently speaking out against radical Islam.
Most Republicans are merely holding out on one hope or another.
“Mr. Trump seems to be suggesting that the president is one of them, I find that highly offensive, I find that whole line of reasoning way off-base”, said Sen. Obama said Monday that the Orlando attacker appeared to fall into that category. As Brian Beutler points out in New Republic, by ratcheting up the demagoguery and xenophobia, Trump revealed that he fully believes, and fully intends to continue campaigning on, precisely the things that had given Republicans grave doubts about his candidacy.
“If I am asked a question, I am going to give an honest answer”, said Ryan.
But, in politics, even the unthinkable allows for some wiggle room – and veteran Republican Sen. “If there’s any campaign in the future, it’s going to be running for re-election in 2018, which is a decision that we’ll make in the months ahead following the next state budget”.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) waits to meet India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (not pictured), before Modi speaks at a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber in Capitol Hill, Washington, U.S., June 8, 2016. “It’s just too late in the process and obviously there are a lot of dedicated supporters out there that would object”. (The claim that Trump isn’t bothering to call donors won’t change any minds about that either.) To put that another way, you’ve got the Republican nominee for president and the Republican National Committee seemingly mutually suspicious that their electoral partner is actively trying to lose. He also revoked the press credentials for The Washington Post, said that he would allow North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to visit the USA for a chat, and, in a move that completely broke with the G.O.P.’s longtime position on gun control, announced that he would meet with the National Rifle Association to propose banning people suspected of terrorist ties from purchasing firearms. “And we do have a lot of common ground on a lot of things that we think will move us in a better way in this country”.
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On June 11 Politico reported that a number of media organizations asked Judge Gonzalo Curiel to release video of Trump’s testimony in the Trump U. case. That senior Republicans now are forced to take issue with Trump’s characterizations of Obama annoys them to no end.
