But in a sign of the work he has to do, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he is not ready to support Trump as the nominee.
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Mark Kirk is considered one of the most endangered Republicans running, his Democratic opponent, Rep. Tammy Duckworth, highlighted an interview Kirk did with a local TV station in which he appears to say he would support Trump if he were the nominee.
But one of the nation’s top Republican lawmakers from right here in Tennessee, is not declaring his support for Donald Trump just yet.
A Trump victory in IN on Tuesday will put his winning streak at seven in a row, and will solidify his position further, putting him on the glide path into the nomination.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan, N.Y., on May 3. Ryan added that Trump needs to “do more to unify this party, to bring all wings of the Republican Party together”.
Trump, a billionaire who paid for most of his primary campaign by himself, acknowledges he would have to sell some of his holdings to muster the hundreds of millions of dollars for a general election bid, something he says he doesn’t necessarily want to do.
“I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is”, Trump said at the time.
Trump became the GOP’s presumptive nominee this week after both of his remaining rivals dropped out of the race.
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Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told reporters Tuesday night before election results in IN drove Cruz out of the race that the campaign had yet to start vetting vice presidential candidates. Already on Wednesday, Ohio’s Rob Portman, New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte and North Carolina’s Richard Burr said they’d support Trump.
In a Facebook post just before the Utah GOP caucus announcing he would vote for Cruz, Romney said the choice was between Republicanism and what his called “Trumpism”.
But with sky-high unfavorability ratings, and concern within his own party about his temperament, the real estate mogul sought to assuage concerns about how a President Trump would govern. Others-including the last Republican president-said they won’t help Trump.
“And we’ve got a ways to go from here to there”, Ryan said.
Presidents George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush have signalled they will not endorse, while Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, is reportedly declining to attend the Republican convention.
It turns out that Trump voters aren’t the disillusioned poor Americans that we picture them to be. However, many prominent activists, journalists and elected officials in his own party have figured out what Hillary Clinton has argued all along: Donald Trump is too big a risk for America.
Democrats seized on the Trump-Ryan clash to highlight the divisions and turmoil within the GOP. It’s fewer than Clinton’s 12.4 million votes and not many more than the 9.3 million Bernie Sanders has received.
The Republican National Committee, under pressure to unify the party or face an electoral rout in the November 8 election, said Ryan and Trump were expected to meet soon.
Now, I believe Republican primary voters are protecting their party.
Donald Trump is tapping private investor Steven Mnuchin to lead his presidential fundraising.
When Trump proposed indefinitely banning Muslims from the United States in December, Ryan responded that such a move is “not who we are as a party” and in violation of the Constitution.
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Sasse, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, doesn’t offer a preferred candidate -although over Twitter he’s mentioned former Oklahoma Sen. Conservative opposition could deepen a popular revulsion against Trump that in turn could help Democrats take over the Senate and gain House seats. “You know…an adult?”
