Donald Trump Clashes With Arizona GOP Senator in Closed-Door Meeting

Instead, he burned some to the ground. “Nothing has changed”, Sasse spokesman James Wegmann said. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has been vocal in his concerns about the business mogul’s candidacy, especially his rhetoric and policies on immigration that the senator argues alienate many Latino voters and others in Arizona….

“Obviously I’m very familiar with Donald and his positions, I just came off an 11-month campaign where he was one of my opponents”, said Rubio, a former Trump rival who was often mocked by Trump as “Little Marco”. John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Trump and Cruz began the primary season largely aligned, with both declining to attack the other.

The presumptive Republican nominee predicted Flake would lose his reelection bid, to which Flake shot back that he’s not on the ballot until 2018. According to a news release, they will talk about building a stronger America and stress why “Donald Trump’s divisive agenda would be unsafe for America”. Ted Cruz of Texas. “But given some of the statements that have been made, I’m finding it hard”, Flake said.

“Today was extremely positive”, said New York Republican Peter King, another representative who has criticized Trump. He has had time as the presumptive nominee to retool his act and school himself on leadership, but we’ve seen nothing to convince us he’s ready to be president.

For Trump and his party, the timing could hardly be worse. Unfurling lines about the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s email practices, he painted Bill and Hillary Clinton as a couple who have for years evaded legal scrutiny, one day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation director offered a scathing review of Clinton’s email practices but did not recommend prosecution.

In an op-edappearing July 1 in the Washington Post and Thursday in the Independent Record, the two-term Republican governor and former head of the Republican National Committee under George W. Bush said he could neither endorse nor support Trump.

“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.

Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign’s chairman and senior strategist, attended the meeting and disputed the portrayal of it as contentious.

Hardy said he was satisfied with Trump’s response. The only risk to her is not from Trump, but from Bernie Sanders supporters who for the moment are unsure of how to respond to their leader’s impending betrayal. There remains a chance Republican delegates to the convention in Cleveland will be freed of their obligation to support Trump and permitted – as conservative writer William Kristol put it – to vote their conscience.

Emerging from the Thursday morning meeting, Price said Trump talked about repealing the health care law, reducing regulatory burdens, tax reform and getting the Supreme Court to “be one that is more reflective of the values of the country”.

First reported by The Washington Post, Mr. Flake’s office verified the exchange. “Eastern, privileged, wealthy bully”, Kirk said later.

“I’m going to be back many, many, many times”, he said, adding later, “I love Ohio”. Ben Sasse, who’s advocated for a third-party candidate in the presidential race.

More than a dozen senators skipped the meeting.

Disaffected Republicans do have choices, said Jeremy Johnson, a professor of political science at Carroll College.

Several North Carolina lawmakers were slated to have a backstage audience with Trump before his Raleigh rally Tuesday night-and hoped to chat veep with him-but the candidate arrived late because of a rainstorm.

Donald Trump is blaming the media for the uproar over his comments complimenting former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a killer of terrorists. He said he thinks it was the only thing that was good about a “bad guy, really bad guy”.