“It’s not how I act, feel, behave”. We agree with Ryan that being up front and laying out the agenda is the honest way to campaign.
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As the GOP’s “Never Trump” movement struggled to identify a viable alternative, many believed it was only a matter of time before Ryan fell in line. He was under pressure from both wings of his party to make a decision. He also went further in one television interview saying he’d also have concerns about a Muslim judge showing some type of bias towards him. “He has many others, but he has that one solved”.
Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, who is up for reelection, said he disagrees with Trump’s comments but added that Republicans are “spending a lot of time talking about our differences with our nominee”.
After the candidate’s attack on Martinez, Team Trump decided it would be a good idea to send Sam Clovis, the dubiously credentialed self-described “economist” and Trump’s chief policy advisor, to explain their man’s position.
And for vulnerable Republicans up for House and Senate elections this November, the outlook is even worse. They can embrace Trump wholeheartedly, denounce him or offer tepid support as Ryan has.
The Senate’s top Republican says he “couldn’t disagree more” with Donald Trump’s personal attacks on the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit against Trump University. But the Democrats will be gleefully cataloging every offensive and weird thing that Trump has said and will say going forward, and demanding that Republican House and Senate candidates respond to them. But his comments during an exclusive interview with the AP exposed lingering reservations, suggesting that Ryan’s shift was driven more by a deep desire to defeat leading Democrat Hillary Clinton than to support Trump.
“Because now there doesn’t appear to be any daylight between Donald Trump and Senator McConnell”.
Trump told CNN Friday that Curiel should recuse himself from the Trump University case because of his ancestry will bias him. “This is not where I wanted us to be”.
However, Sykes said, Ryan may have had no choice.
In the November 8 general election match-up, likely to be between Trump and Clinton, job creation plans are expected to be a priority, particularly in states that have been hit hard by manufacturing-sector job losses.
When host Chuck Todd asked McConnell if he could work with Clinton should she be elected president, the GOP leader replied that “I would rather be working with Donald Trump”, in large part because “I know he’s going to appoint the right kind of person to the Supreme Court”.
“We can only hope he’s wrong about that”, Sykes wrote.
Other Wisconsin Republicans were less grim about the announcement.
When asked how he would vote if the election were held today, Rakolta quipped: “I would plead the Fifth Amendment”.
He’s still not quite there, but is beginning to see it as a sort of inevitability. “That we would continue to be faced with this very hard choice, as we are, as many of us have been, between Hillary Clinton and Donald”.
During a Friday conference panel discussion on national politics, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga said he is continuing to withhold his support of Trump and likened the GOP nominee’s views on presidential powers to those of outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama.
“I’m not going to turn the keys to America over to Hillary Clinton”, Schuette said.
McConnell made his comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, while Corker spoke on ABC’s “This Week”.
The GOP pushback against Trump comes two days before presidential primaries in California, home to more Latinos than whites.
And most say Trump is capable of standing up to special interests, at 52 percent – more so than for Clinton, at 44 percent, Gallup found.
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“Maybe it would be more accurate to say ‘Question Mark Trump, ‘” he said.
