For Wall Street, Clinton has also proved to be the candidate-of-choice remaining in the presidential race after heavily-favored Republican candidates such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio fell prey to Donald Trump’s campaign earlier this year.
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And they say it’s unlikely to make a bit of difference in swaying Trump.
Eric Fehrnstrom, who was a senior adviser to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, said a Quinnipiac University poll showing Trump running even with Clinton in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, all critical swing states, would boost his standing with Republicans and said the party’s July 18-21 national convention in Cleveland would give him a chance to reset perceptions.
While Trump has discussed investing significant sums of his personal fortune to help elect fellow Republicans to Congress, he had previously left the door open to paying for his own campaign using the public financing system, which provides major party presidential nominees a lump sum grant of roughly $94.14 million in the general election.
And still that would not be enough for Donald Trump to extend the olive branch to Paul Ryan to secure his endorsement.
Speaker Ryan’s gimmick to be the reluctant hero of the right. “I will do whatever I can to support our Republican nominee”.
“Donald Trump has a great deal of work to do to convince many Americans, including myself, that he’s prepared and able to lead this great country”, said Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., another congressman from a closely divided district. I intend to live up to the pledge that we made. “If that changes we will certainly respond accordingly”, Cruz said before boarding a flight to return to the Capitol, where Senate Republicans were warily awaiting the return of a colleague who’s spent months denouncing them as the “Washington cartel”. “And the two candidates are about where their party predecessors were at this point in OH and Florida”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, in a memo accompanying the poll results.
He’s scheduled to meet first with Ryan and the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, then have a second meeting with Ryan, this time with his House leadership team.
Last month, Trump’s chief strategist, Paul Manafort, assured members of the Republican National Committee that the candidate would adopt a more small-c conservative persona for the fall campaign.
“I think this is a time for unity”. McConnell and others have decided that the best approach is to get behind Trump. “His lack of appreciation for constitutional limits on executive powers is deeply concerning”, Toomey wrote of Trump. “Look at Chris Christie”.
Another former opponent, Sen.
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On Monday, Rubio released a statement saying that he would not accept an offer to become Trump’s running mate and that Trump would be “best served” by a running mate who could “fully embrace” his campaign.
