Meanwhile, Jeb Bush’s father and brother, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, said they will not endorse Trump.
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“It’s hard to believe that in a nation of more than 300 million Americans, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be our choices for president”, he said.
Earlier this week, the Louisiana GOP released a statement congratulating Trump and urging Republicans to “now unite in order to defeat Hillary Clinton in November”.
“The thing that matters most are the millions of people that have come out to vote for me and give me a landslide victory in nearly every state”, Trump said moments after Ryan, the nation’s highest-ranking Republican officeholder, announced their planned meeting.
Priebus continued: “It’s going to take some time in some cases for people to work through differences”.
FILE – In this April 19, 2016 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks in Washington. Aides said that, far from seeking to helm an anti-Trump movement, Ryan hopes to exert a positive influence for the general election campaign after a nominating contest that has alienated women, minorities and other voter groups.
Trump, Dole said, “is our party’s presumptive nominee and our best chance at taking back the White House this November”. That he castigates as many Republicans as Democrats is another sign of the fractures within the GOP.
More than half of the registered voters who said they would vote for Clinton planned to do so in opposition to Trump, rather than in support of her candidacy, the poll said.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a former 2016 presidential candidate, became the latest establishment Republican to opt out, announcing yesterday that he would not vote for him or Clinton.
We can not take Hillary Clinton anymore.
“I just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a really serious job”, Obama said. He has giddily seized on a comment she made to CNN in March that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”. Kennedy, who is running to fill David Vitter’s U.S. Senate seat, praised Trump’s controversial stance on immigration. This week, he is reported to have met William Kristol, who is pushing for a third-party alternative to Trump and Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner.
Slamming Democrats was to be expected, but Trump’s problems within the GOP itself remained an unusual spectacle of Republican vs.
The statement from Jeb and Graham came a day after Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan said that he is not ready yet to support Trump. Trump said he had “no idea” if they would patch things up and it wasn’t all that important anyway.
Trump said past year that American wages are too high, though he told CNN on Wednesday that he is “open” to raising the minimum wage.
Trump has raised howls of protest even within his party with his harsh, free-wheeling speech and proposals ranging from banning Muslims from entering the United States to building a wall on the southern border to keep out Mexican migrants to slashing USA funding for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation so allies have to pay more.
“There are certain conservatives who view themselves as the brains and leadership of the movement who are somewhat offended that their call to action to stop Trump failed”, says Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, the oldest and largest conservative grassroots organization.
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However, President Barack Obama did say when questioned about it at the White House: “This is not entertainment”. This is not a reality show.Secretary of State John F. Kerry joined in the Trump criticism Friday while delivering the commencement address at Northeastern University in Boston.
