“So today what I heard in his call for unity is that we will go through a process”.
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The flamboyant billionaire’s rise poses a direct threat to Ryan’s life’s work: the placing of conservative fiscal and social ideology at the center of USA government while broadening the party’s reach to more diverse economic, ethnic and cultural audiences needed to assure the GOP’s viability in an increasingly diverse nation.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign seized on Ryan’s refusal to answer the question, with her Deputy Communications Director tweeting out: “This should not be a hard question”.
Sessions appeared at the convention as a representative of Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee who is busy convincing Republican leaders that he can be the party’s standard bearer.
“I didn’t support Donald Trump in the primary”.
Unfortunately for Romney and Co, their advances have apparently been consistently rebuffed, with the prevalent accepted notion being that any Republican that runs against Trump in the general election will be committing career suicide.
Trump, for years a registered Democrat, has offended women, Hispanics, and others while violating establishment party orthodoxy on numerous issues Ryan holds dear, from trade to wages to religious freedom.
“I’ve always said I will support the Republican nominee”, said Rep. Joe Heck, who is running for the open Nevada Senate seat long occupied by the retiring Democratic leader, Harry Reid.
However, with Trump set to top the GOP ticket, will those same politicians keep to their word and stick with the rhetoric of the primary election or shift their stance to focus on the Democrats for the good of their party?
But he choreographed his re-entry into Washington politics carefully nonetheless, highlighting his interest in foreign policy after returning from a trip to Iraq, Turkey and Qatar with a major foreign policy speech in Washington and a CNN interview.
“Rep Tom Cole of Oklahoma, an ally of GOP leadership, said Thursday his biggest worry about Trump is that he is “‘unpredictable”. [Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images]That said, those involved concede that they don’t think an independent candidate has any chance of winning the election.
Any relaunch of Rubio’s political career will likely be anchored in his interest in national security issues – so a sign that he is continuing to deepen his expertise is likely to be viewed as politically significant. The Washington Post says that Mitt Romney has recently met with both of them lately, but there aren’t any other details about him managing to convince them to confront Trump. Trump also listened and was receptive to concerns about “respect”.
“There’s a large group of conservatives who aren’t sold on Trump”, he said.
“The next president is going to inherit a recession that this president has largely been able to avoid due to the timings of things”.
“To my friend Jeb Bush and to others: You have to live up to your pledge”, Florida Republican National Committeeman Peter Feaman of Boynton Beach told GOP faithful at a Thursday dinner.
“The good news coming out of this is that everybody understands we have to beat Hillary Clinton”.
Yet her choice of vice presidential nominee could elevate a fresh face for the future.
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Asked whom he would vote for in November, Rep. Carlos Curbelo – one of the most endangered House Republicans in the country – said it wouldn’t be Trump or Clinton. We absolutely must elect a commander in chief who will destroy ISIS.
