Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is still all-in with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, even after Trump falsely accused President Barack Obama of being the founder of ISIS and suggested that Hillary Clinton would be assassinated if she were to pick Supreme Court justices.
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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus reportedly told GOP nominee Donald Trump last week if he didn’t change the direction of his presidential campaign, the party would instead pivot to focus more on down-ballot races, Time reported.
Following a private meeting between Trump’s campaign and the RNC, which Trump himself was not slated to attend, Priebus took the stage in Erie, Pa., to introduce his party’s nominee – an unusual cameo in any election cycle.
Both Trump and a spokesman for Priebus say it’s not true.
“These were the people that have been there a long time”, Trump added. But this means calling a man chosen by more than 10 million party members insane – a bold move.
We’ll have new CBS News Battleground tracker poll numbers to provide a glimpse of the state of the race in the key states of Georgia, Florida and New Hampshire. In most recent elections, third- or fourth-party candidates do much better months before November than they do as the election nears and voters focus on choosing a potential victor.
Donald Trump’s awful secret? “What they want to do is try to fake it through”.
You have a new presidential candidate, an independent conservative, Evan McMullin, come from Utah. Last month, the Republican National Convention sought to ease concerns about a fractured party by making a concerted effort to show unity, with some establishment figures like House Speaker Paul Ryan in attendance, but in only a few short weeks, that image appears to be disintegrating.
“They’re going to do it sooner or later”.
Trump fired back at Romney saying he “understand losers, you can make a lot of money with losers”, adding that Romney’s 2012 presidential run was a failure because the former MA governor “choked like a dog, he’s a choker”. Shays has said he will vote for Clinton while Humphrey and Weber have said they would vote for her if the election was close.
That’s how Republicans ended up with Trump.
And although Trump had a history of controversy on issues of race, it wasn’t that insane to think he could at least outperform the GOP’s last two presidential nominees, John McCain and Mitt Romney, with black voters.
Following the controversial speech, Cruz said he is “not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”.
He said Clinton’s email scandal wouldn’t top his list of issues, but pointed to issues with the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as Secretary of State as “a major sort of ethical blind spot”. She urged Mr Trump to stick with his playbook.
“The premise about President Obama and Hillary Clinton destabilizing the Middle East, I think, is an important one”, said Jason Miller, the campaign’s senior communications adviser.
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Sean Spicer, RNC communications director, said in a telephone interview that abandoning Trump with almost three months to go to the November 8 election “doesn’t make logical sense”.
