Clinton and her allies are already on the air in battleground states with TV ads meant to frame Trump negatively, and the Republican National Convention – one of his biggest chances of make a positive impression on voters – is just a month away.
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Other top Republicans, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Rep. Fred Upton, said this week that they will not back Trump.
Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer’s party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP nominee. I get that this is a very odd situation.
“As far as I know there have not been in-depth policy discussions with the campaign as to what this means”, said Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), who chairs the Financial Services subcommittee on monetary policy and trade, and was in NY with Hensarling. However, I’m more interested to see how the Democrat convention goes considering Sen. Trump plans instead to depend upon the national Republican Party to lead state-based efforts on his behalf, while Democrat Hillary Clinton has had an army of staff dedicated specifically to her campaign in general election battlegrounds for months.
And while Republicans have been plenty critical of President Obama’s use of executive orders and agency rulemakings to advance his environmental, labor, immigration and civil rights agendas, Ryan has also betrayed some anxiety about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his my-way-or-the-highway approach to politics. But I, along with most Democratic members of Congress I know, respect him for his civility, his decency and his moral principles. “I think that’s a new one”, Ryan said, before pointedly offering the last question to a reporter from the Post. Since then, Ryan has been critical of Trump, calling the candidate’s complaints about the impartiality of a judge of Mexican heritage a “textbook definition of a racist comment” and reiterating his opposition to Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban all foreign Muslims from entering the United States.
Reince Priebus says GOP is happy with Trump [Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images]”I’m glad for him to come and to interact with more Texans”.
Bill Kristol, longtime foe of Trump and editor of The Weekly Standard, is urging the party to “cut the thread” with the still-presumptive nominee.
The official committee tasked with electing Republicans to the Senate wants you to endorse Donald Trump for president – even though several of its own members refuse to do so. “Sanders’ supporters don’t have a lick of loyalty to the Party or the Clintons”, Gidley challenged.
“It seems to a lot of us that the train is off the track”, said Upton.
Trump’s dismissal of Congress has been going on for a while.
GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak said that “there really is a kind of panic setting in” about Trump within the ranks.
Republican leaders rushed to condemn their presumptive leader’s words.
One can nearly see the Republican Party backroom boys gathering in a smoky den and reading their candidate the riot act: “If you want to be president, You have to lie to the American people”.
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“You can’t make this up sometimes”, Ryan said.
