Senator Corker withdraws as potential Trump running mate

Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, personally contributed $3.8 million in June, the campaign said, bringing the total contributions for the month to about $55 million.

The moves by Bob Corker of Tennessee and Joni Ernst of Iowa could complicate Trump’s efforts to rally establishment Republicans behind his presidential bid.

“He gets it. And he says I’m the biggest thing he’s ever seen in the history of politics”, Trump said. “And I’m not saying anything, and I’m not telling even Newt anything, but I can tell you, in one form or another, Newt Gingrich is going to be involved with our government”, he said.

“He won’t lay out an actual plan, and, of course, he’s going to skip over his track record as outsourcer-in-chief”, said the Cincinnati city councilman and former U.S. Senate candidate.

Yet another potential running mate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, appeared with Trump Wednesday night in Ohio. “Lots of support! Win”.

“I’m not saying it’s Newt, but if it is Newt, nobody’s going to be beating him in those debates”, Trump said.

For June, fundraising emails circulated by the Trump campaign attracted $26 million, in addition to more than $25 million raised in conjunction with the RNC through joint fundraising events in June and the last week of May.

He bragged that his campaign has raised $51 million in the latest reporting period.

“I can not imagine a more vivid proof of corruption than the steps that go from the Bill Clinton accidental airport meeting to the Saturday of the 4th of July weekend interview …to the attorney general this afternoon announcing with great surprise that she accepts the Federal Bureau of Investigation director’s total sellout of the American system”, Gingrich said.

Clinton already has extensive staff operations in the most important battleground states and has begun to run paid advertising.

The Clinton Campaign has outspent Trump Campaign to the tune of 15-to-1, claims Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser with the campaign’s polling team.

The question is whether Trump – known to bristle at criticism – could stomach another strong personality in his running mate. While he is now expected to announce his choice before the convention, the public appearances with possible choices seem a bit like the high-stakes competition he fostered in previous careers as reality television star and beauty pageant owner.

Trump told Fox News he has 10 candidates on his vice presidential list, including two generals.

Trump is perceived as divisive only “in the sense that the establishment is faced with a popular uprising and the establishment doesn’t want to give up all of its perks and all of its power”, Gingrich said.

Corker stood at least a foot shorter and spoke in slow, deliberate phrases instead of Trump’s rapid-fire braggadocio. “That I can tell you”.

Trump did say that Gingrich would have some role in his administration.

At one point, when Trump was interrupted by a fly that flew near him, he bellowed: “I don’t like mosquitoes!”

It was a pivotal part of Gingrich’s introduction to Trump – and the beginning of an nearly scholarly undertaking to understand the making of the man who would go on to seize his party’s nomination for president. They dispatched an aide’s son to pick up Ryan, who wore a baseball hat and sunglasses to disguise his identity. “So it’s fair for the voters to look hard at both how a VP is selected as well as who is selected”. Bykowicz reported from Washington.