Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on Super Tuesday primary election night at the White and Gold Ballroom at The Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 1, 2016, as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens. They can embrace Trump wholeheartedly, denounce him or offer tepid support as Ryan has. Or the Trump who submitted an application in May to build a sea wall to protect his golf course in County Clare, Ireland, from the effects of global warming, explicitly citing rising sea levels and extreme weather?
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She said she imagined Mr Trump “composing nasty tweets” about her as she spoke, seeking to turn Mr Trump’s prolific Twitter habit into an additional bullet point demonstrating that he was unfit for the presidency.
“What he ought to be doing now is trying to unify the party and I think attacking people once you have won – it’s a time, if you can, to be gracious and to try and bring the party together”, McConnell added. “I can tell you I’m not voting for Hilary Clinton”, Martinez said. “It’s going the wrong way”, Trump told a rally in Redding, California.
If there existed an organization called “People Named Donald Trump”, Trump wouldn’t be cognitively stable enough to serve as its president.
Ryan announced his endorsement of Trump, vowing to for the NY mogul in the fall, in an opinion piece in his hometown newspaper, the Janesville Gazette.
Despite i360 having turned down Trump’s attempt to use its data services during the primary season, and Americans for Prosperity’s denial of a speaking slot to Trump at its annual confab last summer, don’t be surprised if both entities buy a ticket on the Trump train.
House Speaker Paul Ryan disavowed Donald Trump’s accusations of bias against the judge in the Trump University case. He criticized Trump following the candidate’s bigoted comments about Latinos, women and disabled people, and openly disagreed with him on key Republican policies.
Ryan’s holdout wasn’t even long enough to earn him credit in the footnotes of future history books. Trump has yet to retract or apologize for those comments.
On the other side, the social conservatives and economic conservatives are probably the part of the coalition that is most dubious about Trump, because in the past his positions weren’t that different from Hillary Clinton’s. The Trump who favored the visas during a debate in October? Even I think Obama’s “waters of the United States” approach on the environment, his drone assassinations, domestic spying and war-making powers are all out of control. One of the GOP preeminent voices on foreign policy, senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has derided his foreign policy platform as “nonsensical”.
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Trump, by the way, has said he’s not sure whether he would have authorized internment camps because he wasn’t “there at the time”. “And Hillary Clinton will fight for ALL Americans”, Praeli wrote. In the general election campaign, job creation plans are expected to be a priority, particularly in states that have been hit hard by manufacturing-sector job losses.
