The New York Times’ Alex Burns explains it’s less about Trump winning and more about minimizing collateral damage if he loses.
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Reason: “Donald Trump was not my first choice before the Iowa caucus”.
Ryan has said he is not yet ready to back Trump.With strong opposition among some in the party to Trump, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus used the term suicide mission to described any effort to entice an independent, anti-Trump candidate.Trump and Ryan said after their meeting Thursday that they were committed to unifying the party despite their difference over immigration, Muslim immigrants, taxes, benefit programs and trade. And he does have a shoot-from-the-hip style.GOP officials are still trying to determine who should be the leading voice for party barely six months before Americans choose their next president in a likely showdown between Trump and Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state.
“Because people are so mad the president and the Congress don’t get together, don’t get anything done”. A source with knowledge of the efforts confirmed them to CNN Sunday.
Sasse, the freshman Republican, has emerged as one of Trump’s foremost critics from the right.
“Romney paid a dear price”, he said.
Priebus was having none of that. “What it means is that you’re throwing down not just eight years of the White House, but potentially 100 years on the Supreme Court and wrecking this country for many generations”, Priebus said. “I think she handles herself well”.
Sen. Deb Fischer told 400 delegates and alternates to the GOP state convention that “the people have spoken” and they are fed up with “the wise men of Washington telling them who to vote for”.
But even as Priebus urged the party to get behind Trump, he acknowledged that Trump “is going to have to answer for” his behavior around women.
Ditto for Lindsay Graham and everyone else in the Never Trump camp who said they’d rather take poison than support the billionaire populist. “He’s going to need to understand really completely. how complex this world is”, said Trump’s top Senate ally and top foreign policy adviser, Sen. “I think it’s very unsafe and there’s other ways to get assurances on the things that they are anxious about, which is what Paul Ryan is doing, and making sure that some things are understood before moving forward with some particular people and I think Paul Ryan’s approach is much better”, Priebus said. And I think Ryan doesn’t have much disagreement with Trump’s deregulation instincts, though this plank has not been fleshed out.
The glass houses defense of Trump came one week after he attacked Clinton as an “enabler” of her husband’s own behavior toward women.
And he said that Trump will ultimately have to address the question with voters about whether his behavior is acceptable. Sessions just gave Hillary Clinton the video she needed for a 30-second television ad about why voters should not even think about voting for Donald Trump. “And that’s why he’s doing so well”, he said. This time, the topic was recordings from a People magazine interview with “John Miller”.
“There is tremendous waste, fraud and abuse, but I’m leaving it the way it is”, Trump recently told Fox Business Network.
“Let me be as clear as I can be, we are in the campaign to win the Democratic nomination”, Sanders said at a campaign event in Salem, Oregon. This comes has a big jump for Trump who scored 35% votes in the last survey conducted in the five days to May 4 while Clinton scored 48%.
“You know, it’s a starting point”, Noem said.
“I’m very disappointed in him”. Manafort cited Trump’s explanation that his returns since 2009 are still the subject of Internal Revenue Service audits.
“This is an issue the media is interested in”. Yet when speaking about the issue, he says he recognizes the difficulty of surviving on the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
But it’s also the sort of story that makes the Washington establishment extremely nervous.
Trump has a similar take on the minimum wage. He didn’t name Trump – but he didn’t have to.
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