House Republicans report positive meeting with Donald Trump
The former House speaker, who is one of the top candidates to be Trump’s vice presidential nominee on the Republican ticket, said in a phone interview with CNN Thursday that he was “very angry” about what he considered to be “the media’s deliberate distortion”.
Flores, a Texan who heads the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative grouping in Congress, had also criticized Trump, including for having questioned a USA judge’s motives because of his Mexican ethnicity. “Things will all work out in November”, according to Rep. Ken Calvert of California. “He looks forward to defeating Hillary Clinton in the fall and doing everything he can to accomplish that”.
It wasn’t enough for others.
Trump delivered a “great unifying speech”, Price said, and his listeners were “very receptive”.
Trump’s former rival, Texas Sen. Senator Sasse introduced himself to Mr. Trump, and the two had a gracious exchange. Mark Kirk of IL says Donald Trump is an “Eastern, privileged, wealthy bully”. John McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War.
Representative Bill Flores said Trump told lawmakers there had been a few times when “I said this, and Paul had to react this way”.
‘I just want to remind everybody: Chicago a week ago had two people shot every hour for 15 hours, ‘ he said, jabbing at a city that hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1931.
“The only people who are not interested in being the VP pick are the people who have not been asked!” the nominee said in a tweet last Monday, just days before Corker said no, publicly.
Jeff Flake declined to address reports that Trump threatened to attack him politically during a testy exchange that Sen.
Gingrich, who campaigned with Trump in Cincinnati Wednesday, also confirmed Thursday that he was being vetted for the position, though he qualified the remark by saying, “I have no idea what that means in terms of Donald Trump”.
‘My argument is the policies that have driven us apart, the policies that have trapped African-Americans in all too large numbers in poverty and in hopelessness [are] the ideological policies that say, “Black lives matter”‘. Eastern, privileged, wealthy bully.
But he also has a background in business (he founded a successful construction company) and served as mayor of Chattanooga and as Tennessee’s finance commissioner – roles that make him a good fit for a number of Cabinet positions, including treasury secretary or secretary of commerce, said Tom Ingram, a veteran political consultant in Tennessee.
Sanford told reporters on his way out of House Republicans’ meeting he continues to be concerned about Trump’s often inflammatory “tenor and tone”, but said it was important the party leader made the time to address lawmakers and take questions.
Caught Cruz in his motorcade leaving NRSC meeting with Trump.
“It wasn’t a deposition, it was more like a family reunion where you don’t know all your cousins”, said Rep.
A group of protesters and Hillary Clinton supporters also held signs and spoke to reporters from across the street of the venue before the doors opened, calling Trump a “Job Creator in Mexico, China, India [and] Singapore”. “And I understand it, I get it”.