“While Republican voters have chosen Donald Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee, my previously stated reservations about his campaign and concerns with many of his policies remain unchanged”, he said. “If we’re going to be in the era of celebrities, we could get Clint Eastwood or Kurt Russell”, Mair says.
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Rubio’s remarks follow his announcement that he has no interest in serving as Trump’s running mate.
“Jeb Bush dishonored his pledge, I mean he dishonored his pledge”, Trump said on the Mike Gallagher Show.
In short, voters in increasing numbers are coming to the conclusion that we effectively have a one-party system wherein Democratic politicians are vigorously driving the worldwide socialist agenda, with Republican politicians simply providing a face-saving foil (which I have referred to previously in this space as “token resistance”) against Democrats.
Palin was the vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket in 2008 and now is a prominent Trump supporter.
Trump’s marriage to Ivana Trump was ending that year and he was with Marla Maples, who would become his second wife.
Some, such as former Senator Norm Coleman, historian Daniel Pipes and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, have declared they will support neither Mr Trump nor Mrs Clinton. “I think Marco has moved on”, he added.
Ballard said fundraisers are coming aboard, even if the candidates they once backed are not. “He should be true to what he believes in and continue to campaign on those things and make his case to the American people”, Rubio said.
Then there’s Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who represents western Miami-Dade, the only county that didn’t go for Trump in the March 15 Florida primary. “He could run a substantially stronger campaign than he did last time”, Mair says.
“As a candidate for president I signed a pledge to support our nominee, and so that’s what I intend to do, ” he said.
Republican National Committee officials downplay the dissent and say they expect Republicans to come around.
Republican leaders in the Senate and at the RNC are urging members to get behind the billionaire and turn their energy toward battling Clinton.
They assume that more immigration puts more people in their pews, and most churches have a mission to bring the faith to people of all nations. He insisted, “I really won’t be asking for money for myself; I’ll be asking money for the party”.
Even Norman Braman, the auto magnate who singlehandedly funded Rubio’s campaign in the early stages, tells New Times there’s zero chance he’ll vote for Trump.
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“I’m not interested in doing that [being VP] for a number of reasons”, the former GOP presidential candidate said on May 5. “I want to help keep the majority in the Senate”, Georgia Republican Sen. “He’s the guy to do it”.
