Trump’s comments were widely criticized as racist, with Ryan calling them “the textbook definition of a racist comment”. “The opposite of hopeful is Hillary Clinton”.
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“I don’t know what’s in his heart”, he added. “The criticism I have is that people seem to brandish their principles and then turn right around and can’t do enough to undermine and attack and get after people”. Trump also said he thought it was “absolutely” possible that a Muslim judge also would treat him unfairly. “Made easier by fact Trump only won minority of total primary votes anyway”.
Many major GOP donors have so far remained on the sidelines, unsure of whether they are willing and ready to support a candidate who has repeatedly courted controversy, including as recently as last week when Trump attached an Indiana-born federal judge as inherently biased against him because of his Mexican heritage.
Trump said in a statement Tuesday that his comments had been “misconstrued” by the media.
Trump was introduced by Florida’s top Republicans, Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Lewandowski pushed back against the notion that Republicans are looking for Trump to tone down his rhetoric and stressed the candidate is not going to change.
“They ought to get together and let the convention decide”, he went on.
“Kirk, you may think in your own words that Donald Trump would be a “net positive” for the Republican Party (and) that you are looking forward to becoming a steady hand to advise a President Donald Trump”, she said, using some of Kirk’s previous comments about Trump. “He has, no doubt, missed an incredible opportunity. But the pivot has to happen, and it’s not”, said John Rakolta Jr., a former fundraiser and family friend of Romney who lives in MI. “Time is running short, but he has time to do that”. Smearing and intimidating nominees who do not pledge allegiance to the financial interests of the rich and powerful. “Since he has the 1,237 votes he needs to be the nominee”, she said. There shouldn’t be any sort of ethnicity or religious or racial test for what kinds of judges should hear what kinds of cases. “I had hoped Obama would be a good cheerleader for the country”.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told NBC that it’s “obviously inappropriate to attack a judge’s race or ethnicity”.
“I mean, I’ve had more opposition from the Republican Party than I do from the Democrats”, Trump said during a rally here, drawing boos from the crowd.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday defended the actions, saying that Obama has had many more judicial nominees confirmed than President Bush did at the same point in his presidency. GOP strategists and vocal Trump skeptics Stuart Stevens, Ana Navarro and Kristen Soltis Anderson told attendees to brace for a Clinton White House because Trump doesn’t appeal to growing voter blocs, including Latinos.
There is no doubt that this has been a bad week in the Trump camp. The judge is presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University. He is an American – period.
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Warren’s ardent base of liberal supporters includes many who also backed Vermont Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, vowed never to do so. But in conversations with members, aides and people close to Ryan, the speaker’s confidants insist he’s played the Trump endorsement as best he could – future of our republic be damned. Trump, who has several fundraisers scheduled for the coming weeks, also said he planned to compete in Democrat-friendly states like New Jersey, California, Maryland and Pennsylvania this fall.
