Graham said that Trump has “united the party around the idea that we need to all vote to protect the Republican majorities in the House and the Senate”.
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According to a list compiled by The New York Times, Trump had insulted on Twitter 210 individuals, places and things since declaring his presidential candidacy last June.
Trump has “not demonstrated” the necessary “temperament or strength of character”.
Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who in March declared himself part of the #NeverTrump movement in the GOP, made his comments at the American Friends of The Hebrew University dinner Thursday night.
“I’m going to pick a Republican and we’ll have a tremendous victory”, Trump said today, noting he was particularly pleased to have the backing of former 2016 presidential campaign rival Rick Perry of Texas.
“Every candidate, every nominee, needs to subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny”, he said. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t be at the convention either.
Meanwhile, Trump’s advisers commenced conversations with the Republican National Committee on coordinating fundraising and tapping into the committee’s extensive voter data file and nationwide get-out-the-vote operation.
Trump tried to cast Clinton as weak on the economy, which is sure to be one of the main policy issues as the November 8 election approaches.
He is now testing out themes to use against Clinton to persuade disgruntled Republicans to get behind his campaign.
Secretary of State John Kerry also called out Trump on Friday in his commencement address at Northeastern University. “You already see the polls going up rapidly”.
Obama leaves office on January 20 after November’s general election, which is likely to pit Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
Trump hit back as well. Trump has also picked up seven delegates in Louisiana.
Trump’s reaction to the open hostility from within his own party was characteristically cavalier.
He continued: “I hope to, and I want to”.
“I believed he was the most conservative candidate”, Buck said in his statement Friday.
Saying he thinks the Republican Party has been “conned”, Graham told CNN Friday that he and Trump don’t share the same beliefs.
“A smart thing for Donald Trump to do would to release five to 10 names of people that he would pull from: “Here’s 10 folks who I think would make great supreme court justices”, Priebus said during a Politico breakfast discussion in Washington on Friday.
Ryan and leading House Republicans will gather for one meeting, while Ryan and Trump are will meet separately. He’d encouraged Republicans to attend the party’s convention in Cleveland, and said he’d had a “very pleasant conversation” with Trump.
Ryan was previously critical of Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the country, but when pressed on whether or not Trump needed to reverse that position, his opposition to free trade, and his call to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants in order to win Ryan’s support, the Wisconsin Congressman deferred.
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Democrats, buoyed by polls which show Clinton leading Trump head-to-head, seized on the Ryan clash to highlight the GOP turmoil.
