“I’m just not there yet”, Trump said, closely echoing Ryan’s own demurral before eventually endorsing Trump, when he told CNN on May 6, “I’m not there right now”.
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While not a household name, Sally Bradshaw’s decision to leave the GOP rocked those who make politics their profession.
Bradshaw was one of the five senior Republican strategists tasked with identifying the party’s shortcomings and recommending ways it could win the White House after its losing 2012 presidential campaign.
As the blowback to Donald Trump’s public feud with a Gold Star family escalated Monday, the GOP nominee’s campaign sent out talking points to congressional supporters urging them to come to his defense.
“Trump has moved in exactly the opposite direction from our recommendations on how to make the party more inclusive”, said Ari Fleischer, who worked with Bradshaw on the GOP’s so-called post-election autopsy and was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush. Trump has said good things about Ryan’s primary opponent. “My father even said that during the interview, sounds like he’s a really incredible guy”, Eric Trump said.
Yet it was not clear that, even as Trump found another line to cross and another political norm to defy, any Republicans would rescind their support. Yet thus far, McCain, Ryan and other Republicans who’ve reluctantly declared that they plan to back Trump for president appear to be sticking with him. “It’s the principles”, Bevin told The Associated Press.
He likened Trump’s comments to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s remarks about computer equipment kept at her home. John McCain of Arizona in their GOP primaries.
Among the key recommendations of the post-2014 report that Bradshaw helped write was for the party to be more inclusive to racial and ethnic minorities, specifically Latino voters.
Donald Trump’s verbal sparring with a Gold Star Muslim family is causing some friction within the military community; at worst, he could bleed votes from what is otherwise a slam-dunk voter base for Republicans, according to The Atlantic.
Taking on Donald Trump for his criticism of the Muslim couple whose son was killed in Iraq, US President Barack Obama has said he is exhausted of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
The Republican freshman senator is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The group that rebuked him, which includes Congressman Seth Moulton, a democrat from MA who served in Iraq, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, several decorated veterans (including Zach Iscol, founder of the Headstrong Project, and Jake Wood, founder of Team Rubicon), along with Gold Star widows, mothers and fathers, sent a letter to Trump on Monday.
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” Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims”. “There’s no excuse, particularly for his comments about Mrs. Khan”.
