GOP insiders pressure Trump to steer clear of controversy

“Anybody who thinks that whoever the next president is – and God willing, in my view, it will be Secretary Clinton”, Biden said.

Not every Republican is as encouraged by Trump’s explanation, however-most notably Scott’s fellow SC senator.

“They need to figure out their message and then stay on their message, and I think when Trump spends day after day talking about Trump University, and the judge, and civil lawsuits, I don’t think that is winning him any votes anywhere in the country, I think it’s wildly off message”, he said.

Biden called Trump comments about the judge “reprehensible” and “racist”.

He said he intends to remain in Washington D.C., a rare move for an outgoing president, as he wants to will for his youngest daughter Sasha to finish her secondary education.

He saved his most vicious broadsides for Romney, who speaking Saturday at a GOP retreat in Utah, said that in a race between Clinton and Trump, “either choice is destructive”.

The back-and-forth has been one-sided, since Judge Curiel is bound by a federal code of ethics, a dynamic that Warren noted in her speech.

Though the presumptive nominee has repeatedly stood behind and doubled down on the comments, his stance has drawn outrage from the likes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who called the remarks “the textbook definition of a racist comment”.

He tweeted “Pocahontas is at it again!”

Under Dickerson’s persistent questioning, Trump revised his long-expressed claim that he opposed USA intervention in Libya after the moderator showed a 2011 video blog in which he said, “We should go in”. As the Democratic Party’s heaviest hitters, including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s rival in the Democratic race.

The speeches reflect the unusually prominent role the judiciary is playing this election at a time when an eight-member Supreme Court is rushing to issue opinions that could reverberate on the campaign trail on issues such as affirmative action, abortion and immigration.

Kristol, who is an ABC contributor, pondered that the new party could be called the “New Whigs”, noting that many Republicans in Lincoln’s time came out of the Whig Party.

Republicans have a four-seat majority in the House of Representatives, and some are concerned that majority is in jeopardy because of Trump’s effect on other Republicans. “We will put America first”, Trump said.

“For that sin”, she continued, “he faces a nonstop, national campaign of slime”.

The back-and-forth between Trump and Warren is nothing new.

Sessions, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Trump, now chairs Trump’s group of foreign policy advisers and has been Trump’s most vocal supporter in Washington.

The survey asked the Republican insiders this question: “Would you like to see an organized effort to change the rules of the Republican convention to stop Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination?”