Ryan’s backing of Trump comes a day after he blasted the businessman’s remarks about a federal judge as a “textbook definition of a racist comment”.
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Local Latino and community leaders Wednesday denounced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about a Mexican-American judge, calling them offensive and derogatory.
Haslam has also continually declined to say whether or not he supports Trump but on Wednesday reiterated his desire to sit down with the real estate mogul before next month’s Republican National Convention.
When Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump, I cut him some slack by virtue of his position as House Speaker. “Suggesting that a person can’t do their job because of their race or ethnicity, that’s not a politically incorrect thing to do”. “But I do absolutely disavow those comments, I think they’re wrong, I think they’re wrongheaded, and the thinking behind it is something I don’t even personally relate to”.
“If you want to thank somebody for Donald Trump, thank John Boehner and Mitch McConnell”.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Trump has said that Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University, has a conflict of interest in the case because of his “Mexican heritage”, due to Trump’s immigration policies.
But Warren, D-Mass., says McConnell and Ryan are really no better than Trump on the issue of judges. I think you’re going to find it very informative and very, very interesting.
But McConnell told CNN ” s Erin Burnett on “OutFront” he saw a glimmer of hope on primary night.
Ryan and other Republican leaders were well-aware of Trump’s xenophobia before he became their party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
Trump’s candidacy has done irreversible damage on American culture and morale, but it has done so much worse to the party from which the Frankenstein’s monster emerged.
Graham has not been alone in rebuking Trump, although no politician has gone further so far to condemn the presumptive nominee.
“Recent polls have shown that I’m beating Hillary Clinton. It’s been like that for many years”, Randolph said.
“I will not stand silent if the party of Lincoln and the end of slavery buckles under the racial bias of a bigot”, Johnson said, referring to Trump.
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More recently Martinez has pushed to hear more from Trump about how he might protect federal support of New Mexico military bases and federal research laboratories.
