Trump calls for GOP unity; says party risks losing Senate

In a departure from his usual freewheeling style, Trump read a carefully scripted speech from a teleprompter as part of a new push by his campaign to tone down the outspoken New Yorker’s harsh rhetoric.

FILE – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives at a primary election night rally in New York, June 7, 2016.

Also on Saturday, Romney, who this weekend is holding an ideas summit in Utah, suggested that Trump’s misogynistic and racially insensitive remarks have opened the door for generations of Americans to engage in similar behavior. Trump said Saturday that he’d be willing to apologize – but not to Warren. “Right now, we have a very divided nation”.

FILE – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has taken heat for endorsing candidate Donald Trump.

Trump warned that losing control of the Senate would be “bad” and urged Republicans to “stick together” to prevent that outcome.

For more than 45 rambling minutes, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee repeatedly mocked “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, calling her “a total mess” and “unstable”.

Trump said the Republican Party “has got to get their act together, come together to win”.

The former Republican presidential candidate blinked back tears.

In an email to supporters Saturday, he said, “I thank you for everything you’ve shared with me and all the support you’ve given our campaign”.

On Thursday, Warren endorsed Clinton and accused Trump of “race baiting” and using “racism” toward the federal judge of Mexican heritage who is presiding over a civil fraud suit against his Trump University real estate school.

Trump said Bush’s low popularity numbers among Republican voters throughout the contest placed him at the edge of the stage at GOP debates.

A Fox News poll had Clinton ahead by 3 points, while Reuters gave an 8-point advantage to the Democratic candidate. She was secretary of state.

He stopped short of repeating his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, a proposal that has drawn heavy fire from Republicans and Democrats.

Romney famously alienated large cross-sections of the American public during his failed 2012 presidential run, in which he insulted 47 percent of his countrymen, challenged a primary opponent to a ten-thousand dollar bet, spoke of evaluating “binders full of women” when hiring people, and in general came across as indifferent to and unaware of the concerns of lower-class Americans.

At the funeral on Friday of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, a convert to Islam, one speaker, a rabbi, inveighed against politicians promoting intolerance of Muslims.

“Now we have kids in elementary schools joking about the size of their hands”, Romney said about one Trump comment, in a question-and-answer session with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“The Republican Party has to be tough, has to be smart”.