Trump accuses Bush of trying to oust him at convention
Though the usual band of protesters chanted outside Donald Trump’s rally at the Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona, Saturday, Trump focused instead on a threat from within the party.
Corporations are not the only ones voicing their disapproval of Trump’s controversial comments, with several key GOP leaders having jumped shipped and announcing they will not support the bombastic real estate mogul. We need your contribution by 11:59 P.M. Tonight…
‘It’s not legal, can’t do it, ‘ Trump warned. “But we’re preparing to fight back”. But he said he expects Trump forces to win a convention floor showdown “pretty comfortably”.
When Trump first began running for president, he stated that he would self-fund his campaign.
Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have all said they will provide some support to this year’s GOP event, despite general reservations within the tech industry about where the party is headed under Trump’s candidacy.
“As we carefully consider not only the presidential nominee but the rules of the convention, the platform of the Republican Party and the vice presidential nominee, remember that this is true reality TV – it is not entertainment”, Regina Thomson, co-founder of the group now calling itself “Free the Delegates”, said Sunday. Although an urgent request for donations is not out of the ordinary in presidential races, this emergency request from Trump reaffirms this concern among Republican leaders. On Saturday, Trump called these efforts “illegal” and a “hoax”.
He may be the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, but one Colorado delegate says she’ll never vote for Donald Trump. Otherwise, he will just keep doing what he has been doing so far; he will just keep funding his campaign. That’s the easy way.
“For me, that’s the easy way”, he said. “I’m going to reach out to us and see if there seems to be momentum for this”.
While Trump largely self-funded his primary campaign, he is now primarily raising money for a joint fundraising committee in agreement with the Republican National Committee.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., while he has endorsed Trump, told NBC’s Meet The Press that he wouldn’t force GOP lawmakers to go against their consciences when it comes to support of the volatile nominee. The Hill quotes his statement on the matter. “I think because I’m a different kind of candidate, and, you know, Paul Ryan said that – I’m a different kind of a candidate”. He added, “I do believe that we can win either way, but it would be nice if we stuck together”.