Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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It’s not clear that Ryan is keen to receive Trump’s endorsement. Those comments created a furor within the GOP, and infuriated leading Republicans in Wisconsin, where Trump and Pence are appearing Friday night.
Ryan acknowledged that he has “spoken out a few times” against Trump’s comments on several fronts in recent months, which has irritated Trump and his supporters even though Ryan has given Trump his formal endorsement.
A New Hampshire Republican was stated as saying, “I’d rather take our chances with almost anyone else than continue with this loser who will likely cost the Senate and much more”, referring to Trump.
Sixty-two percent of those who watched the Democratic convention said they were more likely to vote for Clinton while just 40 percent of those who watched the Republican convention felt the same about Trump.
During the April primary, “they put an army into the field and beat this guy”, said Shafer, referring to Trump’s defeat here.
An aide to Ryan said Friday, “He appreciates the gesture and is going to continue to focus on earning the endorsement of the voters in southern Wisconsin”.
Wisconsin is one of the swing states that Trump is hoping to win in November, after losing to Ted Cruz there in the April 5 primary. His decision to endorse Trump almost a month later seemed opportunistically designed as well, since it came the week before he began rolling out the House GOP’s “A Better Way” policy agenda that he is hoping a potential President Trump would support. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called him a bigot.
Eager to change their minds, Trump unleashed a slew of insults at Clinton during his Iowa rally.
Democrats are seeking to increase pressure on Republicans to break with Trump, though their pressure may also make it more hard for Republicans to do so.
“He’s a good man and he’s a good guy”, Trump added.
The charges came soon after Clinton addressed her own political vulnerabilities while facing a group of minority journalists in Washington.
He said he’d voted twice for George W. Bush but was disappointed with his presidency, “and I can see the same people financing him are behind Clinton”.
“What I’ve learned, Matthew- and you’ll learn it when you’re governor of North Carolina”, Pence said as the crowd giggled, “is sometimes things don’t always come out like you mean, right?”
He adds that, “This campaign is not about me or any one candidate”, and says: “We will have disagreements”.
Complicating the Republican Party’s 2016 challenge are fresh signs the nation’s economy is strengthening under a Democratic president.
The U.S. presidential election, starring Donald Trump and a growing cast of antagonists, is now officially stranger than fiction, and more estranged from reality than the most implausible reality TV plot.
Morell, outlining his views in The New York Times, also questioned Trump’s praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump is making a rare admission he was wrong – in claiming he saw a video of a USA cash payment going to Iran.
Critics of the Obama administration have said a $400 million payment in cash to Iran amounted to a ransom in exchange for the freeing of American prisoners in January, but President Barack Obama has defended the payment as a release of frozen funds that followed an worldwide nuclear agreement with Iran.
And reports of $400 million in cash given to Iran could have raised some issues about her years of leadership as Secretary of State, even though the actual clandestine transfer took place well after she left office.
Trump tweeted that all was well, saying Wednesday, “There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before”. He defended himself against her charge that he is temperamentally unfit for the White House.
Republican insiders are now calling for Trump to drop out of the race.
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“My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy”, Trump said, quoting President Ronald Reagan.
