Ted Cruz to speak at the Republican National Convention

Donald Trump met with Republican members of Congress on Thursday with blunt exchanges and encouraging words. “Donald Trump has done a very good job… of being the force that people coalesce around”, he said, adding that while Trump can be controversial and “at times prickly”, many Americans think he’s better than the alternative. These scenarios range from the current RCP average to a historic landslide.

Hundreds of delegates who oppose Trump are set to propose a convention change to the Rules Committee. “Clinton and Trump both are less popular than most major party nominees, but the problem appears to be more acute for Trump”.

(AP Photo/Cliff Owen). Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to meet with Republican House members at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2016. In every case a clear majority – about two-thirds – give a definite “no” answer to switching nominees.

Donald Trump (R) is greeted on stage by fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz before speaking at a rally organized by the Tea Party Patriots in Washington, DC, on September 9, 2015.

According to the Washington Post’s account, Trump was the one who picked the fight, complaining about Flake’s criticisms. There’s nothing in the polling data to suggest that Republicans want an open convention.

Flake spokesman Jason Samuels confirmed that the Post’s story was accurate, but did not comment further on the exchange.

And some have continued to insist that Trump is more interested in winning – now by defeating presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton – than in actually serving as president of the United States and commander in chief, with all its tremendous power and responsibility.

“My position remains, I want to support the nomination”.

“Sen. Sasse went to today’s meeting ready to listen”, Wegmann said in the statement.

The meetings came as Trump continues to raise anxiety among Republicans about his temperament less than two weeks before the party holds its national convention in Cleveland.

“Nah. I’ll just leave it”, Flake said. The New York business tycoon asked Sasse if he preferred to have Hillary Clinton as president. “When he (Trump) refers to a judge born in IN as a Mexican in a pejorative way, when he calls those crossing the border rapists or when he goes after McCain, somebody has to stand up and say, ‘This is not the Republican Party'”.

Trump says in a statement “we must restore law and order in our country” and “we must restore the confidence of people to be safe and secure in their homes and on the street”.

Kirk, who is facing a tough reelection, last month ripped Trump last month, saying, ‘I think he’s too bigoted and racist for the Land of Lincoln’.

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