“I may just pass, I may write somebody in, I don’t know, but I’m going to be enthusiastically behind the South Carolina Republican team”, he said.
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Mulcair pointed to Trump’s pledge to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States and to build a wall along the Mexican border to crack down on illegal immigration.
The meetings are aimed at beginning “a discussion about the kind of Republican principles and ideas that can win the support of the American people this November”, Ryan’s political office said in a statement.
Gardner noted four “critical” issues on which Trump and the GOP must agree: “Less government, more freedom, strong national defense”.
The House Speaker on Thursday said he was not ready to back the party’s new standard-bearer. The speaker and Trump will hold a separate meeting with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
Making his first remarks on the Republican race since Mr Trump emerged as the presumptive nominee, Mr Obama told the reporters that deeper reporting of the billionaire and his positions had now become paramount, implicitly criticising them for have fallen short thus far.
“The voters of our country have turned out in record numbers to support Trump”. The presumptive nominee said Friday he was surprised by Ryan’s stance. “This is America. If both choices stink, we reject them and go bigger”, Sasse said.
“There are certain conservatives who view themselves as the brains and leadership of the movement who are somewhat offended that their call to action to stop Trump failed”, says Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, the oldest and largest conservative grassroots organization. “I just really believe that the Republican party has been conned here”.
“I think there needs to be a great effort on the part of Donald Trump as well as the Republican Party to come together and start talking about what goals they would have in his administration and it has to be a cohesive message”, she said.
Ryan said on May 5 that he was not ready to endorse Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and said the party needed a “standard-bearer” who embodied its ideals.
Republican Party platforms rarely matter, and this year’s version is unlikely to be a road map for a Donald Trump White House. Neither of the last two Republican Presidents – George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush – will attend the Republican convention in Cleveland.
“With millions of people coming into the party, obviously I’m saying the right thing”, Trump said on Fox News Channel. That was reported, and nobody talks about it. But I think it’s awful.
Ryan has made a point to be seen working in tandem with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, barnstorming California with him in early March, making stops in several cities over 72 hours to raise money for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
“This is not entertainment”, Obama said, a reference to Trump’s television background.
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who previous year described Trump as a “cancer on conservatism” while running against him for the Republican nomination, supported him as well.
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The problem with this approach is that around 16 million Republicans (and independents who voted in open primaries) have voted against Trump in the Republican primaries, while around 11 million have voted for him.
