Donald Trump tries to reassure Republicans after tough day

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump brought his campaign to Westchester Tuesday.

Many have wondered how it can be that the delegates may choose anyone they want at the convention when there has been so much talk about delegates being “bound” to the results of primaries. But with party leaders already flashing mixed messages about the billionaire’s candidacy – House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., belatedly endorsed him but labeled his comments “racist” – any more rhetorical bombs that Trump tosses could cause opposition to him to snowball. Trump told The New York Times in April that he was not sure it would be “a bad thing” for the United States if Japan had nuclear weapons, and has said the same about South Korea and Saudi Arabia.

For a while it seemed that Republicans figured they had no choice but to fall in behind the presidential candidate who hijacked their party – that would be Donald Trump.

“There’s a lot of anger, I guess”, Trump said.

Trump questioned the impartiality of the district court judge overseeing a lawsuit related to his venture Trump University, saying the Indiana-born judge’s Mexican ancestry could bias him against Trump.

Asked about Trump’s shift in tone and whether it would allay concerns of Republicans opposed to Trump, Republican strategist John Weaver said that was unlikely.

Trump responded to Warren’s broadside on Twitter Friday morning when he mockingly called her “Pocahontas”, reviving a 2012 controversy how the MA senator described her Native American heritage.

“It’s just not going to happen”, said Randy Evans, a GOP national committeeman from Georgia. Bernie Sanders went decidedly more negative against her in the final days of his campaign, while 72 percent of his supporters say they do not trust her, leading him to conclude that her political reputation is not intact.

Neither Trump nor RNC chairman Reince Priebus, who also attended the meetings, spoke to reporters. Try to get the delegates on the first ballot to abstain, so they can vote for Scott Walker on the second ballot.

“This election isn’t about Republican or Democrat, it’s about who runs this country: the special interests or the people”, he said.

“Manafort won”, one source said, referring to the reports of an ongoing power struggle within the campaign between Manafort and Lewandowski, who has hued to a motto of “let Trump be Trump”. Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination Monday, CBS News reported.

Now, heading into what is expected to be a tough general election with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump appears to be getting serious about raising campaign cash. Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote in the Washington Post Thursday that “it is dawning on Republican candidates and elected officials that condemning racist remarks while supporting the racist candidate requires an unsustainable level of cognitive dissonance”.

“Far too many republicans share this kind of racism…Trump has just dispensed with dog whistles and revels in his bigotry instead”, he writes on the Times opinion page.

Trump has 1,290 delegates. He outlined some of his key talking points on the stump – that he would fight for “the American worker” and that in regards to his foreign policy, the “we will never enter into any conflict unless it makes us safer as a nation”.