Trump backers sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to presumptive nominee

“I don’t know what’s in his heart”, he added.

Mook charged Trump with a history of “erratic behaviour”, the same language levelled by the Obama campaign in its defeat of Republican nominee John McCain in 2008.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he has narrowed the list of potential vice presidential picks to four or five people with Washington experience, something two top Republicans say he needs in order to balance the ticket. A source familiar with the meeting said the pair discussed how best to work together to put forward a progressive agenda and stop Trump.

Flake said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that Trump would have to change some of his views to get his endorsement, including his proposed ban on Muslims. In his statement on the matter earlier, he said he’d been “misconstrued” and that he was “justified in questioning” treatment by the judge.

Many Republicans didn’t see it that way, and the desire of his party to unify behind him looked at risk of unraveling. Snyder also started IKON, a public affairs firm, with Trump supporter Roger Stone.

Many believe Donald J. Trump’s criticism of a federal judge of Hispanic origin is racist and inappropriate.

“A primary campaign against 16 opponents is very different and combative in a different way than a general election against a well-organized, well-funded Clinton machine”, said Rep. Chris Collins, who has been helping to coordinate Trump’s outreach to Congress.

Kirk suffered a stroke in 2012 and often uses a wheelchair. A new ad released last week features the parents of a disabled child criticizing Trump for appearing to mock a reporter’s disability. Hillary Clinton has, finally, made the shift to attacking Trump vigorously over his instability.

Stanley Hubbard, a Minnesota broadcast company billionaire, recently gave $100,000 to a pro-Trump group and describes himself as a reluctant Trump backer. He’s out of line. The former House speaker, a frequent Trump defender, emailed The Washington Post’s Dan Balz to say Trump’s claim that a federal judge had a conflict of interest because the Indiana-born jurist is “Mexican” was “completely unacceptable”. “It’s totally off the wall, and I don’t even have words to explain it”. “He choked”, Trump said.

The desire to win in the fall served as a way for even those denouncing Trump to explain their continued backing of him.

As a growing number of Republicans publicly distance themselves from Trump for his recent comments that a “Mexican” judge isn’t qualified to rule on the fraud case against Trump University, some in the “Never Trump” crowd are gleefully trumpeting the situation.

Ryan said Trump had won enough delegates to be nominated.

Short of fomenting a move to impeach Judge Gonzalo Curiel, Trump can’t touch him.

He saved his most vicious broadsides for Romney, who speaking Saturday at a GOP retreat in Utah, said that in a race between Clinton and Trump, “either choice is destructive”.

Trump’s remarks included a wide-ranging attack on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and he said money aimed at resettling Syrian refugees in the United States should instead be spent on tackling poverty in U.S. cities.

But conference organizer Ralph Reed was adamant in his support for Trump, saying the New Yorker has energized the evangelical vote in a way that past Republican presidential nominees failed to do.

The reference to the judge’s Mexican heritage cuts through that, however, because “most people who aren’t pro-Trump people intuitively understand having an ethnic background isn’t sufficient to be taken off a case”, Caldeira said. But when a party nominee can’t get support from his or her own rivals, it suggests a deeper ailment.