“Donald Trump has not demonstrated that temperament or strength of character”.
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“I would bet if he had that decision to do again, he would have done it the simple way: I endorse Trump”, he said.
Bush said on Friday he doesn’t believe Trump or Clinton will “put us on a better course”, adding that he will not vote for either one. “Because I think we can all agree that from the start, he’s gotten the appropriate amount of coverage befitting the seriousness of his candidacy”. He reacted with fury to another statement of rejection, from senator Lindsey Graham.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a sheet of talking points and notes as he speaks during a rally in Eugene, Ore., Friday, May 6, 2016. “Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews I ask why the media never questions how I single-handedly destroyed his hapless run for President”. Still, Trump assured the thousands gathered that “we’re going to be a unified party”. Trump’s problems with his own party are, like so much in his nontraditional campaign, untried ground. Trump’s belittling attack poses a fresh challenge for a party already riven by frustration and indecision over his campaign. Aides said that, far from seeking to helm an anti-Trump movement, he hopes to exert a positive influence for the general election campaign after a nominating contest that has alienated women, minorities and other voter groups. “And I think that will be true for, I think, for the next six months”, Obama said. “But the important thing to remember is the national titular head of the party is the nominee of the Republican Party”.
At a rally on Friday night in Eugene, Oregon, Trump said he and Ryan had had a positive phone conversation three weeks ago but that “all of a sudden, he wants to be cute”. “But now they’re talking to 120 or 130 million voters, not a few million in a few states”.
POLITICO is reporting that “two prominent House allies of Paul Ryan broke with the speaker Friday over his decision to withhold support from Donald Trump”. He was “not ready to support Speaker Ryan’s agenda”, he said in a statement.
“In November, I will not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, but I will support principled conservatives at the state and federal levels, just as I have done my entire life”.
Priebus said Trump is “trying” and knows “building and unifying and growing the party” is the only way to win in November.
With the Democratic nomination in sight, Clinton has broadened her economic message, devoted days to apologising for a comment she previously made that angered working-class whites, and pledged that her husband, former president Bill Clinton, who remains widely popular among the blue-collar voters drawn to Trump, would “come out of retirement and be in charge” of creating jobs in places that have been particularly hard hit.
He said it will take time for party members to come to grips with Trump as their candidate, and described some of his efforts to make peace between Trump and Ryan. Earlier in the primary he blasted Trump as “a phony, a fraud”. Most Republican campaign contributors face less immediate pressure to count themselves as with or against Trump, but strategists expect Trump to face considerable skepticism. John McCain, who said he would support the nominee.
Ryan has invited Trump for a meeting next week.
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Jeanne Zaino, a political scientist at Iona College in NY state, said she expected calls for a third party candidate to intensify even though they would have little chance of winning, and would probably split the conservative vote.
