Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan late Friday, ending a four-day standoff between the GOP’s most powerful men that exposed deepening concerns about the NY billionaire’s presidential candidacy.
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Trump hopes for a reboot with his Detroit speech, which will talk about “the tepid economy under Obama and Clinton, versus the kind of growth economy that Trump wants to build”, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Sunday on Fox News.
“We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends and never stop working together toward victory”.
“In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”, wrote Morell, who served presidents in both parties over the past three decades. “I understand and embrace the wisdom of Ronald Reagan’s big tent within the party”.
Ryan has been trying to show a unified, on-message GOP; his endorsement of Trump was based around those same ideas, trusting a President Trump will sign off on a conservative agenda. John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, according to NBC News. Just days after Ryan’s endorsement of Trump, Ryan said that Trump’s comments directed toward a federal judge of Mexican descent involving the judge’s impartiality was “textbook racism”.
Trump’s endorsements came more than 10 minutes after he began reading his statement, cutting in several times to offer tangential remarks – from again rehashing an incident involving a crying baby at a recent rally to touting the strength of his fundraising.
Palin endorsed Trump in the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses and emerged as one of his highest-profile surrogates during the Republican primary.
“He’s not a war hero”, Trump said then.
Trump’s second trip to Iowa is as many weeks came amid reports that his GOP allies have been urging him refocus his campaign message on Clinton after a week of dropping opinion poll numbers, a public spat with the parents of a us soldier killed in Iraq and disagreements with some fellow Republicans. “We are going to be the big tent party”.
Ryan faces a primary challenge next week.
Trump has made clear he values Pence, telling a rally on Thursday in Portland, Maine, that he and his running mate have a “great relationship”. “It’s a three-month campaign”, he said.
“We have no knowledge of this and it’s a question for their campaign”, the aide said.
Trump struck a rare conciliatory tone at a Wisconsin rally on Friday, imploring his party to unite behind him and opening a full-throttle attack on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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“Honestly, I don’t care for him much”, Coffman says, speaking directly to the camera.
