“The biggest signal will be the sort of (Supreme Court) justice he picks”, said Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s former secretary of state who sits on the board of the fiscally conservative Club for Growth and is a fellow for the socially conservative Family Research Council.
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Another: “My heart stopped …” Outsider candidates like Trump and Bernie Sanders have thrived in states where independents and non-party members were permitted to vote.
Commentator Pat Buchanan, a populist precursor to Trump who ran for president three times, sees a GOP with three wings: the “Trump folks”, who are populist and nationalist; tea-party and other hard-line conservatives, in the mold of Sen.
Hunter and another Trump backer – Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Tom Marino – said that in a mark of how Trump’s backing in Congress is growing, only a small number of Republican lawmakers attended a previous meeting of Trump’s House supporters just a few weeks ago.
“We discussed the core principles that tie us all together – principles like the Constitution, the separation of powers, the fact that we have an executive that has gone way beyond the boundaries of the Constitution, and how it’s important to us that we restore Article I of the Constitution”, Ryan said, referring to the constitutional provision on the powers and limits of Congress. Does he draw in enough new or non-Republican voters to make up for the millions of Republican voters he will surely lose?
Longtime voters might find such suggestions jarring, but a Trump nomination could be a rule-changer. Guy St. Onge, a controversial pastor, told The Guardian newspaper he was stepping down to “take one for the team”.
I’m trying to unify the party to a point.
Barnett said he is “less and less concerned” about party unity after a reported detente between Trump and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who met on Thursday.
Donald Trump has been trying hard lately to act more presidential and should keep meeting individually with Republican leaders to win the party’s trust, the GOP chairman said Friday. “I know Mexico, and I know where the people come from and where they live”.
The sudden demise of the Cruz campaign, leaving Trump as the presumptive nominee, happened so quickly it hit many in the party like a flash grenade with their proverbial ears still ringing, in the aftermath.
“A lot of members don’t know him”, said McCarthy, the newspaper reported. You can wish the Titanic bon voyage without getting on board.
In tweets and interviews going back to past year, Reps.
The overwhelming focus on Thursday, however, was personality.
Trump will likely need that unity if he wants to win in November. His counterpart in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, is already on board with Trump. “If the delegates ratify this madness in Cleveland, many of us will look elsewhere for a credible candidate to oppose both Trump and Clinton”.
And indeed, the roiling civil war between the Republican Party’s elites and a huge swath of its base has prompted an unusually candid public grappling with whiteness. Simply sitting it out is respectable for Jeb Bush or Lindsey Graham, who have said they’re putting conservative principle ahead of party. “It’s really our duty as Republican Party officials”. He plans to unite the Republican party behind his campaign and select his Vice Presidential candidate. But the working class today is almost 40 percent people of color – and among people of color, Trump is profoundly unpopular. More than two-thirds of Downey’s residents are Latino, according to the most recent census data. “And I think this was a first, very encouraging meeting”. But he appeared to have little choice.
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I know Hillary Clinton does not share my values, and I know she is a menace to constitutional liberty; what I don’t know is whether or not Donald Trump is a menace as well.
