Trump Threatens Third-Party Run

Meanwhile, the Bush people are tentatively happy since a Trump third party candidacy would have killed him in the general, and ushered the Clintons back into the White House.

“I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party and in the American people that Donald Trump is a political vehicle wreck”, Graham reiterated.

“They’re not mostly rapists”, Graham said.

Trump is leading a few national polls for the Republican presidential nomination. He said agents had intended to give Trump and the accompanying press a “boots-on-the-ground perspective” at the border.

Bernie Sanders’s presidential platform, he saved most of his speech – and vitriol – for Trump.

Mr. Saenz said it was an opportunity to show Mr. Trump and his entourage “what Laredo’s all about”.

A union representing federal employees has reversed course on giving a tour of its work area to Donald Trump, saying it does not want to give the appearance of an endorsement. He snapped, “I hope he can find the border because I’m not sure he’s ever been there before”.

Ben Carson, another of the 16 Republicans seeking the presidency, said there was too much focus on Trump.

“I’m disappointed in what he’s done”, she said.

Trump has inspired a slice of the American public that is disillusioned by politics and politicians and some told Camerota that they can not see themselves voting for anyone else but Trump. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island came up behind Graham, clapped a hand on his back and said, “I’ve been trying to call you, but I haven’t been able to get through!”

For a glorious hot-air-filled hour or so Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump and his hat paraded around the border town of Laredo, Tex., and pretended to seriously study how President Trump would fix the problem of “the illegals”.

The South Carolina Senator angered Mr Trump when he criticised his attack on veteran John McCain.

I imagine many in the party will say they intended to legislate on “sanctuary cities” anyway, so it’s not like they’re taking orders from the bombastic presidential candidate.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a day earlier, addressed the Trump feud nearly serenely, expressing confidence the primary campaign would “get beyond the novelty of a reality TV star”. “OK, you can have – I believe perhaps he is a war hero”. “And I don’t know if that’s good for the United States, but it’s good for Mexico”, Trump said, adding later “There’s great danger with the illegals”.

McCain sparked Trump’s temper last week when the senator said the businessman’s inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants had brought out the “crazies”.

Trump is also expected to encounter protests when he arrives in Texas, following remarks on the campaign trail that many Hispanics have found deeply insulting. He said Graham had given him the number several years ago.

“It’s wrong”, Haley said Tuesday during a Republican governors forum at the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado.