John Kasich on Wednesday officially announced that he is ending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, leaving the way clear for magnate Donald Trump to become the GOP candidate for the White House in November. “I’m just not ready to do that at this point”. NBC News reports that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said this afternoon that he just “not ready” to throw his backing to Trump. “Our nominee has work to do”.
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Among the D.C. representatives of a deeply Republican state that handed the businessman a resounding primary win in February, there was no acknowledgment on social media that their party had for all intents decided on a presidential candidate, no statements of support.
Mr Trump, a former reality television star who has never held public office and who has honed an outsider image, suggested he might make a more conventional choice as his running mate. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young, all Republicans, was anyone but presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Bader is not a fan of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
For their part, all three of Alaska’s congressional delegation said they’d support Trump in the general election, even though they had some reluctance given the real estate mogul’s incendiary comments about minorities, religion and women. “I said it repeatedly since then, and I’ll be supporting the Republican nominee once that’s officially set at the convention against Hillary Clinton”. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich withdrew from the race.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was far less reserved, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that if party leaders oppose Trump, it would put other races for Congress and the state Legislature in jeopardy. “If he picks up the phone and calls and asks me to do something that I can do, to help his cause to be elected president, I’ll do it. But it has to be consistent with my responsibilities here”.
Wisconsin’s junior senator already faced a tough re-election bid before Trump rose to the top of the GOP field.
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He continued: “And so, I think what is necessary to make this work, for this to unify, is to actually take our principles and advance them”. “Another failed candidacy. It seems like I’m doing this all the time”. “Because I mean, while I’ve been in the world of politics all my life, the business, I will handle so well, we will bring our jobs back and we’ll bring our economy back”, he said in an interview to ABC News.
