GOP frustrations with Trump mount, but endorsements stand

In that interview, Trump also declined to support McCain’s re-election.

Trump also claimed Ryan had asked for his support, something Ryan’s aides denied.

“I like Paul, but these are awful times for our country”, Trump said in the interview.

Key Republicans close to Donald Trump’s orbit are plotting an intervention with the candidate after a disastrous 48 hours led some influential voices in the party to question whether Trump can stay at the top of the Republican ticket without catastrophic consequences for his campaign and the GOP at large. “I’m very confident after Donald Trump is elected president and Paul Ryan is reelected to congress and Speaker of the House, these two will do great things to restore the country”. A Ryan spokesman said the Janesville Republican has never asked for Trump’s endorsement. Kelly Ayotte as weak. My concern, and obviously I’m a supporter and I’m going to be a supporter to the bitter end here, is that since the night he gave his acceptance speech, which is a very fine speech, every single day he’s lost ground. “I think he’s very sensible, very down to earth, and tells it like it is”. We need loyal people in this country.

“I’m just not quite there yet”, Trump said of backing Ryan, who told CNN’s Jake Tapper something similar in May when appearing reluctant to endorse Trump.

According to NBC, “key Republicans” including RNC chair Reince Priebus, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and almost-VP Newt Gingrich, plan to sit Trump down to discuss some of the choices he’s made of late, which include attacks on the father of a dead soldier; attacks on two separate fire marshals doing their jobs; attacks on a baby; attacks on two senior Republicans who endorsed him; and the weird claim that his daughter would never allow herself to be sexually harassed at work, notwithstanding the fact that she still works for him.

Veterans and families of fallen soldiers continue to call on Trump to apologize for his treatment of the Khan family, who spoke out against Trump at last week’s Democratic National Convention.

Trump’s decision not to endorse Ryan on Tuesday sent political ripples across the GOP, casting doubt on party unity just weeks after the Republican National Convention was carefully crafted to project harmony.

A spokeswoman for Donald Trump has blamed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 killing of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan in Iraq – even though the death occurred more than four years before Obama became president. Instead, vulnerable Senate Republicans like Ayotte and McCain are trying to focus on running their own races and hoping voters will make a distinction between them and Trump, something some polls suggest may be happening. “I don’t really stress this stuff too much”.

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