A look at what GOP governors, senators say about Trump

The rebuke of Trump came as GOP voters went to the polls in 11 states in a “Super Tuesday” of balloting that many Republicans fear could give the combative and controversial New Yorker unstoppable momentum toward claiming the GOP presidential nod. We believe his speeches and manner have created a climate that contributed to the stabbing incidents this weekend at a Klu Klux Klan rally in California and his being endorsed by KKK Leader David Duke, and on his being the favorite candidate of white supremacist groups.

But after Trump racked up impressive victories in New Hampshire, Nevada, and SC, and after the once-presumed strong candidacies of establishment candidates such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fell by the wayside, more mainstream Republicans grew alarmed. He said that voting for a third-party candidate is not a reasonable thing for Republicans to do, even if they don’t like Trump.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called Trump’s comments “Really sad”.

But the businessman’s penchant for making off-color and stunning remarks – the latest when he initially refused to repudiate David Duke on CNN’s “State of the Union with Jake Tapper” – have made top Republicans downright fearful that he could be detrimental to their hopes of retaking the White House, keeping the Senate and effectively filling the ninth spot on the Supreme Court.

“The reality is, Donald Trump is just being more candid about the agenda of discrimination House Republicans have been advancing for years”, Pelosi said in a statement. “So I don’t know”.

“I’m going to eagerly and enthusiastically support whoever gets the Republican nomination”, said U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., a Knoxville Republican. “Not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable”.

Appearing with Rubio on stage, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said she would not “stop until we fight a man who chooses not to disavow the KKK, that is not a part of our party, that is not who we want as president”.

Trump was asked Friday by journalists how he felt about Duke’s support. “But I can not support Donald Trump”, Sasse wrote.

I have long vocally opposed third parties as irrational in our two-party system. “That is not company I wish to keep”. I’m a movement conservative who was elected over the objections of the GOP establishment.

On the Democratic side, polls show Hillary Clinton likely to win at least seven states Tuesday to extend her already sizable delegate lead over Sen.

For this reason, millions of patriotic Americans who would ordinarily vote GOP – including most conservatives and all constitutionalists – will never vote for him. Although Trump also got his first Senate endorsement from Alabama lawmaker Jeff Sessions over the weekend, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has reportedly given his conference the green light to “drop [Trump] like a hot rock” if he gets the nomination.

The real estate mogul’s nontraditional campaign has traditional Republicans anxious he will rend the GOP apart.

He later complained he didn’t hear the questions in the interview because of a “bad earpiece”.