“What could help Donald Trump move more people in the Republican Party to his side is to pick a vice president, and have more people around him, who are conservative”, said Joe Phelon, 44.
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Trump adviser Paul Manafort suggested the Republican establishment was surprised by the candidate’s rapid rise and therefore has been slow to rally behind him.
Successful presidential candidates typically count on overwhelming support from their party’s voters.
The soul-searching over what to do with the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee includes a broader debate over who gets to define conservatism.
Paul Ryan and Donald Trump, the top Republicans in the United States, plan to meet next week to try to unite their party, with both men focused on the November 8 presidential election, but the Wisconsin congressman also perhaps looking further ahead.
“I think it would be better if it were unified”, Trump said, adding that “I don’t think it actually has to be unified” in the more traditional sense. “I think it’s important for us to take seriously the statements he’s made in the past”.
While speaking at a pair of rallies in Washington state on Saturday, Trump repeatedly assailed the woman he’s dubbed “Crooked Hillary” while hardly sparing former Republicans rivals Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham repulsed by his chokehold on their party’s presidential nomination.
Sen. Jeff Flake, a Trump critic, said Republicans must figure out something fast because Trump’s ability to win primary contests by relying on hard-line policies such as banning Muslims from entering the United States might not translate into general election success against the Democrats.
Trump appeared to be responding to news that Priorities USA, the lead super PAC backing Clinton, has already reserved $91 million in television advertising that will start next month.
Ken Blackwell, a spokesman for Our Principles, told MSNBC on Saturday the group would shift its focus to assisting Republicans in hard down-ballot races in the event Trump’s presence at the top of the ticket makes matters more challenging.
Trump declared Saturday, “Two can play that game”. And what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful. “Even though he’s rich, and he’s always been rich, he’s just like Bob in the country”, she says.
“Look”, he says, “Donald Trump is not on trial to determine whether or not he is an award-winning conservative”. Otherwise, Ryan is standing by the phone to hear that Trump will unify the party. She added, “I believe this took place in late March”.
Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is a “nasty, mean enabler” and calls liberal Sen. He said some were made in the name of entertainment, while others, like his criticism of actress and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell, were warranted. “The only reason I speak badly about him is that he speaks badly about me”. “I feel sorry for you”, she said, “because you (given your job) can’t ignore the collapse of Western civilization”.
Trump also continued a line of attack he rolled out on Friday evening in OR and on Twitter aimed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and favorite of the left whom some would like to see as Clinton’s running mate, repeatedly calling her a “goofus”.
In his NBC interview, Trump said Romney is “ungrateful” for his support in 2012, and that the former MA governor “choked” on his chance to beat President Obama. Trump said he had “no idea” if he and Ryan would patch things up.
“Bill Clinton was the worst in history and I have to listen to her talking about it?”
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