Trump Verbal Volleys Leave Jarred GOP Bracing for Convention
“I mean forget about the fact that Republican National Committee put out a statement saying it’s all made up by the press, by these people right here”, Trump said as he pointed to the press as the audience booed. “It’s awfully hard when I won”. But he said Trump won the GOP primaries fair and square so he should be the nominee, barring some extreme or unexpected development.
Earlier this month the Republican majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said he could still rescind his endorsement of Trump, adding that “it’s pretty obvious he doesn’t know a lot about the issues”. He attacked Republicans who said he could not clinch the necessary delegates to win the nomination, adding: “One of the people, who probably hasn’t quite given up yet. was trying to buy up all of the second ballot people”.
Ryan instructs Republicans to follow their “conscience” on Trump: In his interview for “Meet the Press” that will air on Sunday, House Speaker Paul Ryan essentially gave every Republican license to follow their conscience in whether or not to support Donald Trump. Wouldn’t it be amusing if Trump gets record setting votes in the states, and somebody what was beat by me like a drum says our nominee (isn’t me)?’ he said Saturday, according to Yahoo News. “[Trump is] a very unique nominee”.
Priebus is the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Trump denounced those alleged plans as “a hoax” invented by the media.
Luckily, online gambling site Bovada has posted the odds for the Top 10 Republican vice president candidates, featuring everyone from Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin to current Trump rivals such as John Kasich. “You know, life is like a two-way street”.
Still, Trump, who largely funded his primary win, will likely have problems funding his own general election campaign, despite his wealth.
He explained, “Imagine the Speaker of the House not supporting the duly elected nominee of our party, therefore creating a chasm in our party that splits us in half?”
Delegates organizing a last-ditch effort to deny the presidential nomination to Donald Trump argue that there is nothing to stop Republicans from changing rules to “unbind” delegates from primary and caucus results, allowing them to vote their consciences.
“That screamed so loudly to me”, she said, “It went beyond juvenile tactics”. I beat them all, and now a couple of them would like to come in through the backdoor, ‘ he proclaimed.
In March, the New York Times reported that several corporations, including Google, Walmart and Apple were assessing whether they should “scale down” their contributions to this year’s RNC due to Trump’s raging bigotry. Unruh, who is leading the campaign, also said that nobody has any idea who is going to step in and be the nominee, but that they are not anxious about that.