Trump paying first visit to GOP rank-and-file in Congress
Gingrich and Christie are the two top names being highly speculated as Trump’s running mate.
Across the street from where the meeting took place at the Capitol Hill Club, several dozen demonstrators gathered to protest Trump, chanting, “Donald Trump is a fraud, he likes to send our jobs overseas!” John McCain (R-Ariz.) last summer, when he questioned whether McCain was a war hero because he was captured while serving in Vietnam. “But things like the Saddam Hussein comment are not helping me get there”, Kinzinger added. “I remain one of them based on tone and tenor”. “But shouldn’t they really be standing up to the bully?”
Hardy said Trump told him that “Hispanics love me”, and referenced polling that shows him improving among Hispanics over former GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s performance in 2012.
Donald Trump visited Washington D.C. today to meet with rank-and-file Republicans in both the House and Senate.
“There was no talk of pivoting”.
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Corker, 63, said his decision to withdraw from consideration as vice president prompted “a candid conversation” with Trump and his team about other roles he might play.
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Trump’s message to a packed room at the Republican National Committee building was, “We all need to stick together”. Flake referenced Trump’s criticism previous year of his colleague, Sen.
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According to the Post’s account of Thursday’s meeting, Flake asked Trump to stop attacking Mexicans. “I like a lot of what he says, but not how he says it”. “Nothing has changed”, Sasse spokesman James Wegmann said. Tim Kaine, a popular lawmaker and foreign policy expert who is among the candidates under consideration to be her vice presidential pick.
But Trump has struggled to keep the focus on his Democratic rival.
It came on the heels of a fiery Trump speech Wednesday night in which he defended his retweet of the image of a six-pointed star alongside a picture of Clinton on a field of hundred-dollar bills. Many saw the symbol as a Star of David and condemned the tweet as anti-Semitic.
But some Republicans left the meeting still feeling unsure about Trump.
Democrats sough to capitalize on Trump’s appearance on the Hill. “Police lead a life that is as much on the front line of saving civilization as our military but we don’t quite have the same sense of awe sense of respect, and yet they put their life on the line every day”.
That explanation was well-received.
Despite that inauspicious start, Flake assured the presumptive nominee that he wants to support him and has never been a Never Trumper.
He cast himself as a free trader but said he believes the USA has made awful deals and warned that China has taken a one-sided approach to trade that has hurt the nation.
“I like a lot of what he says, but not how he says it”, Rep. Mark Sanford of SC said. In fact, there are only seven articles.
‘I think it is so profoundly dishonest that it sickens me and makes me very angry, ‘ Gingrich said.