Ted Cruz thing or a Donald Trump thing.
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Yet the body language of the OH delegation during Trump’s speech spoke volumes. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Susanna Martinez of New Mexico and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, and Sen. “And I will live in Arizona to make sure he gets reelected to the U.S. Senate”.
Efforts to coordinate the Trump campaign with the Ohio Republican Party have been challenging.
Both Kasich and Cruz have refused to back the blustery real estate mogul, citing his proclivity for insults and lack of policy experience.
The discord in those first two days, followed by Cruz’s refusal to endorse Trump during his speech Wednesday, stood at odds with the RNC’s push to unify the fractured party ahead of November. “As for what I do in the end, I don’t know”.
“John Kasich is our leader, and we are going to stand beside and behind him all the way”. Portman has told reporters that he would defend the trade agreements that he supported.
So far, it’s unclear how effective Strickland’s tactics have been.
And Portman stoutly defends his record of accomplishment in Congress and as US trade representative in 2005 and 2006 to curb China’s unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. “When I look around the world, what is it that I see, I see growing nationalism”.
That’s a compelling argument for Ohio Republicans who can’t stomach a victory from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. He jousted with Chinese trade officials over software and movie piracy and textile exports, which the Commerce Department limited because of market disruption. New York Congressman Peter King called the Texas senator an anatomical expletive. Former Ohio House Speaker JoAnn Davidson said, that Trump gave a solid address and outlined his concerns about the economy, education, immigration, trade and security pretty well.
On Thursday morning, Mr Trump took to Twitter to respond to Mr Cruz’s speech and the signs of strain his party was seemingly showing.
Portman backed Gov. John Kasich in the Republican primary, but endorsed Trump when Kasich left the race.
The Ohio delegates at the convention in Cleveland didn’t get what THEY wanted – their governor John Kasich, who won Ohio’s primary and all 66 of its delegates. “People in OH want to see a positive agenda, a positive way to move forward”, Kasich said Friday in an interview at the Union League of Philadelphia. Frank LaRose says, given his feelings, Kasich went the right way. “Ohio’s a iffy state, it’s really hard to walk that line”.
“The party’s together”, said Gingrich.
Portman is running on the 2016 ticket. And he acknowledged it’s made him unpopular among some Republicans.
Melnick paid a couple thousand dollars to join Kasich supporters as an “honorary” delegate. Ohioans who attended said they heard a message of hope from a man changed personally by months of empathetic listening on the presidential campaign trail. “And frankly, I don’t think he understands the points of view of people who have been out their toiling and working and volunteering” for the party and its candidates.
“I ship tile to China and I pay a 26 percent tariff, they ship to America duty free” he said.
Still, Johnson said he held a fundraiser recently for Portman in his hometown of Salem, Ohio. So “even if I didn’t completely support him on trade, there would be so many other issues I would agree with him on”.
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“Our challenges are not with each other; our challenge is against Hillary Clinton”, Borges said he told Trump. Ryan said he “helps tremendously” in solidifying support from social conservatives.
