Romney ‘feels he’s putting country over party’

There’s a dilemma that is being faced by a number of delegates in our state that are delegates for the Republican Convention.

And when I say “non-Trump Republican”, I’m not talking about a no-hoper instant punchline like David French. Lindsey Graham of SC. In fact, Trump is not above repeating things he knows will get a rise out of his liberal opponents.

“He played it extremely well”, he said, commenting on the way Trump tapped into voter frustration.

“I don’t understand why we talk about Mexico as a race”.

Romney said had he chose to make a third run for the White House, he’d “have just been another establishment person”.

“If the RNC follows the dominant historical precedent, delegates will be able to vote their consciences”, French wrote. Those included claims that Syrian refugees are admitted into the US without any screening and that neighbors of the perpetrators of December’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, knew about it in advance but said nothing to police.

Tieless in a business suit, and having swapping his usual red “Make America Great Again” cap for a black version, Trump was feeling the heat at the campaign stop at Pittsburgh International Airport, where temperatures reached 88 Fahrenheit (31 degrees Celsius). Reporter: Back on the campaign trail tonight, Donald Trump is back to his old self. “They’re probably somewhere. Maybe they’re in the back, in the back bleachers”.

He also said he’s not concerned about Clinton’s advantage in field staff in battleground states, saying Trump will benefit from the Republican National Committee’s infrastructure.

Instead, the opposite has occurred as the billionaire businessman has stoked one controversy after another and shows no sign of slowing down.

Yet despite the many statements about how ridiculous Trump’s remarks about Curiel were, at midweek his apologists were still sticking their feet in their mouths as they attempted to stay in the presumed Republican presidential nominee’s good graces.

“He was in well after the time there was no possible pathway to becoming the nominee”, Romney said, adding he spoke personally to Kasich during the campaign and urged him to leave the race.

While many Republican lawmakers and pundits initially refused to engage with these comments and their callbacks, they have since begun to, and it has put many of them in odd positions.

Journalists who do receive credentials are penned up in the rear of his events where Trump can conveniently point at them and the crowd in choruses of boos and jeers reminiscent of “Two Minutes Hate” in George Orwell’s dystopian “1984”. After that, Priebus never anxious about Trump leaving the GOP. Trump can run as an Independent if he wants to, that’s his right as an American I guess, but we’re not going to run him, because that’s insane.

Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, also insisted Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that his campaign is “not anxious about fundraising” and won’t be outspent by Hillary Clinton.

The next day, he had to denounce Trump for the comments about Curiel.

“I continue to be discouraged by the direction of the campaign and comments that are made”, said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). Rather than assume the attitude of a mature statesman ready to take the leadership reins of the most powerful country on earth, Mr. Trump has taken great delight in flinging around rhetorical hand grenades hither and yon with a callous disregard for any potential consequences.

A separate report from CNN notes numerous Republican Party apparatchiks are exploring ways in which the delegates pledged to Trump might be pried away for another candidate. “The next five months are going to be painful for all of us, but it’s not about just the next five months.’ It’s much, much more than that”, Matheson said.