With Trump seizing the mantle of presumptive Republican nominee this week after his rivals exited the race, debate has turned to whether he will be able to rally party faithful behind him between now and November. Clinton will also target working-class white women who tend to vote Republican but who have been disenchanted by Trump’s reputation for sexism. He said that the presidency is a very serious job and that it is not “entertainment” or a “reality show”. “What that means is that every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny”.
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Last month, Trump floated Walker as a possible vice presidential pick. The head of a grassroots conservative group in Texas wishes he could wake up from a dream and discover the Trump-as-nominee notion is nothing more than the product of indigestion from a bad burrito. “We’ve had tremendous endorsements from a lot of people”, he said.
He grudgingly agreed to next week meet Paul Ryan, the Republican House speaker whose statement a day earlier that he was not ready to embrace Mr Trump’s nomination set off the fireworks.
“I think it would be better if it were unified, I think it would be – there would be something good about it”, Trump said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week” airing Sunday.
Latest reports suggest that Ryan has called Trump to meet him and other congressional leaders on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu). Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at her campaign field office in Oakland, Calif., Friday, May 6, 2016.
Trump shrugs off the high-profile Republicans who have stated they aren’t voting for him, among them former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen.
But two former Republican presidents George H W Bush and George W Bush along with the 2008 presidential nominee Senator John McCain have announced that they would not attend the Cleveland convention. He said in some areas Trump is “absolutely” a conservative, but said he expects to disagree with him on some issues.
Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, has stressed the burden is on Trump to begin the healing process within his fractured party.
“I want to see a verification that our conservative principles will be championed”, Ryan added.
The Juneau Republican, who didn’t endorse in the primary, said Wednesday he thinks having Trump on the ticket will help Republicans throughout the state, noting Trump’s populist appeal.
Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren took to the gladiator arena of our modern age-Twitter-to do battle Friday night.
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“He was impeached for lying about what happened with a woman, and she’s going to take ads about little Donald Trump?”.
