[h=1]Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We’re Sticking With Donald Trump[/h]
From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt over the instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump.
Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCainurged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear.
In interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr. Romney four years ago rebelled against his message and plan. “I personally am disgusted by it — I think it’s disgraceful,” said Lola Butler, 71, a retiree from Mandeville, La., who voted for Mr. Romney in 2012. “You’re telling me who to vote for and who not to vote for? Please.”
“There’s nothing short of Trump shooting my daughter in the street and my grandchildren — there is nothing and nobody that’s going to dissuade me from voting for Trump,” Ms. Butler said.
A fellow Louisiana Republican, Mindy Nettles, 33, accused the party of “using Romney as a puppet” to protect itself from Mr. Trump because its leaders could not control him. “He has a mind of his own,” she said. “He can think.”
The furious campaign now underway to stop Mr. Trump and the equally forceful rebellion against it captured the essence of the party’s breakdown over the past several weeks: Its most prominent guardians, misunderstanding their own voters, antagonize them as they try to reason with them, driving them even more energetically to Mr. Trump’s side.
As Mr. Romney amplified his pleas on Friday, Mr. Trump snubbed a major meeting of Republican activists and leaders after rumblings that protesters were prepared to demonstrate against him there, in the latest sign of Mr. Trump’s break from the apparatus of the party whose nomination he is marching toward.
As polls showed Mr. Trump likely to capture the Louisiana primary on Saturday, the biggest prize among states holding contests this weekend, the party establishment in Washington seemed seized by anxiety and despair. At the Conservative Political Action Conference, a long-running gathering of traditional conservatives, attendees feared that they were witnessing an event that has not occurred in more than a century: the breaking apart of a major American political party.
From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt over the instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump.
Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCainurged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear.
In interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr. Romney four years ago rebelled against his message and plan. “I personally am disgusted by it — I think it’s disgraceful,” said Lola Butler, 71, a retiree from Mandeville, La., who voted for Mr. Romney in 2012. “You’re telling me who to vote for and who not to vote for? Please.”
“There’s nothing short of Trump shooting my daughter in the street and my grandchildren — there is nothing and nobody that’s going to dissuade me from voting for Trump,” Ms. Butler said.
A fellow Louisiana Republican, Mindy Nettles, 33, accused the party of “using Romney as a puppet” to protect itself from Mr. Trump because its leaders could not control him. “He has a mind of his own,” she said. “He can think.”
The furious campaign now underway to stop Mr. Trump and the equally forceful rebellion against it captured the essence of the party’s breakdown over the past several weeks: Its most prominent guardians, misunderstanding their own voters, antagonize them as they try to reason with them, driving them even more energetically to Mr. Trump’s side.
As Mr. Romney amplified his pleas on Friday, Mr. Trump snubbed a major meeting of Republican activists and leaders after rumblings that protesters were prepared to demonstrate against him there, in the latest sign of Mr. Trump’s break from the apparatus of the party whose nomination he is marching toward.
As polls showed Mr. Trump likely to capture the Louisiana primary on Saturday, the biggest prize among states holding contests this weekend, the party establishment in Washington seemed seized by anxiety and despair. At the Conservative Political Action Conference, a long-running gathering of traditional conservatives, attendees feared that they were witnessing an event that has not occurred in more than a century: the breaking apart of a major American political party.
Civil rights activist Charles Evers endorses Trump
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Charles Evers (pictured) said he believed the Republican frontrunner 'first of all because he's a businessman'
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Charles Evers (pictured here in 1968 with Martin Luther King, left) also said he respects Trump's views on immigration and said that he doesn't feel 'the U.S. should be obligated to provide support for undocumented immigrants'
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Evers (center) made made history in 1969 after becoming the first black mayor of a Mississippi town or city since reconstruction
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Charles Evers (pictured) said he believed the Republican frontrunner 'first of all because he's a businessman'
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Charles Evers (pictured here in 1968 with Martin Luther King, left) also said he respects Trump's views on immigration and said that he doesn't feel 'the U.S. should be obligated to provide support for undocumented immigrants'
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Evers (center) made made history in 1969 after becoming the first black mayor of a Mississippi town or city since reconstruction
Joe the Plumber says he's voting for 'winner' Trump because 'he's made billions' and has a model wife
'Joe the Plumber', or Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, 42, said he likes presidential candidate Donald Trump in part because the billionaire dated attractive women.
Joe the Dumber should release his tax returns and see if ever got up into that over $250,000.00 per year demographic he was so worried about 8 years ago.
TRUMPS WALLS ARE NEEDED ACROSS EUROPE.
Macedonia reveals plans to build 200 mile long fence on its border with Greece protected by guards armed with Tasers ahead of EU summit on how to deal with the migrant crisis
PUBLISHED: 21:03, 6 March 2016 | UPDATED: 00:49, 7 March 2016
Dramatic plans to build a 200 mile long fence protected by guards armed with tasers were tonight revealed before a key summit in Brussels to stop the flow of migrants through the continent.
EU leaders will tomorrow pledge to close down the route from Greece through the Balkans where more than 985,000 have travelled since the start of last year.
Ahead of the meeting, Macedonia has requested that neighbouring countries help it seal the thoroughfare by extending the existing 19-mile razor-wire fence on its southern border with Greece and providing extra guards and riot gear.
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Migrants have previously tried to break through the existing fence on the Greek-Macedonia border, pictured
The former Yugoslav republic, which is not a member of the EU, has sent a list of demands including bullet-proof vests, truncheons, handcuffs, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and grenades filled with rubber balls.
Officials in Skopje have also asked for 35 tasers and a sound cannon that would be fitted to an armoured vehicle and used to break up crowds by emitting a pain-inducing noise.
Around 14,000 people are currently stuck on the Greek side of the border at Idomeni after Macedonian authorities started limiting the number of people they would let through to just a few hundred a day.
There have been violent clashes at the crossing in the past week with a crowd of chanting migrants trying to force their way through the border fence using a metal sign post as a battering ram.
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Macedonia today imposed further restrictions only allowing Syrians from parts of the country they consider to be at war to enter.
It means people from cities such as Aleppo could cross, but those from the capital of Damascus would be stopped.
At an emergency summit tomorrow in Brussels, aimed at saving the EU’s passport-free travel zone, Schengen, all 28 leaders, including David Cameron, will sign up to a plan to stop migrants arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey being ‘waved through’ the continent.
Leaked draft conclusions for the meeting seen by the Mail show that they will agree that ‘irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route are coming to an end… this route is now closed’.
They will also pledge to ‘provide further assistance to Greece in managing the external borders, including those with Macedonia and Albania’.
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Macedonian soldiers, pictured, have been used to guard the crossing and the country's government has asked for more Tasers and a sound canon to break up large crowds
The EU’s border agency Frontex will ask for countries to supply more guards and Europol will send officers to screen arrivals on the Greek islands.
The leaders, who will be joined by Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu for part of the meeting, will also sign off a plan agreed on Friday for Turkey to take back all economic migrants that cross the Aegean Sea.
According to the draft conclusions, the leaders will say they ‘stand by Greece in this difficult moment and will do their utmost to help manage the situation that has arisen’.
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras said his country would demand an immediate relocation of some of the 30,000 migrants stranded there and will call for sanctions for countries inside the Schengen Zone that refuse.
With thousands more arriving from Turkey every day, the numbers could swell by 100,000 by the end of this month, EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos projected on Saturday.
Mr Tsipras said that in facing a potential flow of millions of migrants, the EU is feeling the consequences of ‘unreasonable ... imperialistic interventions’ in the Middle East that have destroyed organised states, an apparent reference to Iraq and Syria.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, pictured, has demanded the immediate relocation of some of the 30,000 migrants currently stranded in Greece and wants sanctions for Schengen Zone countries that refuse
He accused Austria and the Balkan countries of ‘ruining Europe’ by slowing the flow of migrants heading north from Greece.
‘Europe is in a nervous crisis,’ Mr Tsipras told his left-wing Syriza party's central committee. ‘Will a Europe of fear and racism overtake a Europe of solidarity?’
He said central European countries with declining populations and low unemployment could benefit in the long term by taking in millions of refugees, but said austerity policies have fed a far-right ‘monster’ opposing the inflows.
‘Europe today is crushed amidst austerity and closed borders. It keeps its border open to austerity but closed for people fleeing war,’ he said. ‘Countries, with Austria in the front, want to impose the logic of fortress Europe.’
Hitting back at criticism by eastern European states over Greece's failure to stem migrant flows, Mr Tsipras questioned the wisdom of admitting these countries into the EU a decade ago.
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Macedonia reveals plans to build 200 mile long fence on its border with Greece protected by guards armed with Tasers ahead of EU summit on how to deal with the migrant crisis
- Macedonia wants to extend 19-mile razor-wire fence on Greek border
- It would be 200 miles long and protected by guards armed with Tasers
- Migrants have previously tried to force their way past existing fence
- Plan seemingly in line with EU agreement to close migrant route
PUBLISHED: 21:03, 6 March 2016 | UPDATED: 00:49, 7 March 2016
Dramatic plans to build a 200 mile long fence protected by guards armed with tasers were tonight revealed before a key summit in Brussels to stop the flow of migrants through the continent.
EU leaders will tomorrow pledge to close down the route from Greece through the Balkans where more than 985,000 have travelled since the start of last year.
Ahead of the meeting, Macedonia has requested that neighbouring countries help it seal the thoroughfare by extending the existing 19-mile razor-wire fence on its southern border with Greece and providing extra guards and riot gear.
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Migrants have previously tried to break through the existing fence on the Greek-Macedonia border, pictured
The former Yugoslav republic, which is not a member of the EU, has sent a list of demands including bullet-proof vests, truncheons, handcuffs, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and grenades filled with rubber balls.
Officials in Skopje have also asked for 35 tasers and a sound cannon that would be fitted to an armoured vehicle and used to break up crowds by emitting a pain-inducing noise.
Around 14,000 people are currently stuck on the Greek side of the border at Idomeni after Macedonian authorities started limiting the number of people they would let through to just a few hundred a day.
There have been violent clashes at the crossing in the past week with a crowd of chanting migrants trying to force their way through the border fence using a metal sign post as a battering ram.
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Macedonia today imposed further restrictions only allowing Syrians from parts of the country they consider to be at war to enter.
It means people from cities such as Aleppo could cross, but those from the capital of Damascus would be stopped.
At an emergency summit tomorrow in Brussels, aimed at saving the EU’s passport-free travel zone, Schengen, all 28 leaders, including David Cameron, will sign up to a plan to stop migrants arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey being ‘waved through’ the continent.
Leaked draft conclusions for the meeting seen by the Mail show that they will agree that ‘irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route are coming to an end… this route is now closed’.
They will also pledge to ‘provide further assistance to Greece in managing the external borders, including those with Macedonia and Albania’.
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Macedonian soldiers, pictured, have been used to guard the crossing and the country's government has asked for more Tasers and a sound canon to break up large crowds
The EU’s border agency Frontex will ask for countries to supply more guards and Europol will send officers to screen arrivals on the Greek islands.
The leaders, who will be joined by Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu for part of the meeting, will also sign off a plan agreed on Friday for Turkey to take back all economic migrants that cross the Aegean Sea.
According to the draft conclusions, the leaders will say they ‘stand by Greece in this difficult moment and will do their utmost to help manage the situation that has arisen’.
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras said his country would demand an immediate relocation of some of the 30,000 migrants stranded there and will call for sanctions for countries inside the Schengen Zone that refuse.
With thousands more arriving from Turkey every day, the numbers could swell by 100,000 by the end of this month, EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos projected on Saturday.
Mr Tsipras said that in facing a potential flow of millions of migrants, the EU is feeling the consequences of ‘unreasonable ... imperialistic interventions’ in the Middle East that have destroyed organised states, an apparent reference to Iraq and Syria.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, pictured, has demanded the immediate relocation of some of the 30,000 migrants currently stranded in Greece and wants sanctions for Schengen Zone countries that refuse
He accused Austria and the Balkan countries of ‘ruining Europe’ by slowing the flow of migrants heading north from Greece.
‘Europe is in a nervous crisis,’ Mr Tsipras told his left-wing Syriza party's central committee. ‘Will a Europe of fear and racism overtake a Europe of solidarity?’
He said central European countries with declining populations and low unemployment could benefit in the long term by taking in millions of refugees, but said austerity policies have fed a far-right ‘monster’ opposing the inflows.
‘Europe today is crushed amidst austerity and closed borders. It keeps its border open to austerity but closed for people fleeing war,’ he said. ‘Countries, with Austria in the front, want to impose the logic of fortress Europe.’
Hitting back at criticism by eastern European states over Greece's failure to stem migrant flows, Mr Tsipras questioned the wisdom of admitting these countries into the EU a decade ago.
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[h=1]New polls show Trump and Clinton trouncing their rivals in Michigan - which holds primary contest in two days[/h]
PUBLISHED: 16:08, 6 March 2016 | UPDATED: 20:01, 6 March 2016
The frontrunners, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, are at the front of the pack in Michigan, two new polls show today.
Trump, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, bests his Republican rivals by 19 points in the state, where voters will head to the polls in two days.
Clinton has a 17 point edge among likely Democratic primary voters when matched up against rival Bernie Sanders.
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Donald Trump is looking good in Michigan - with two polls show him way ahead of the Republican pack, which now only includes three other candidates
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Frontrunner Donald Trump is poised to take Michigan too - with a double-digit lead over rival Ted Cruz in the state, which votes in just two days
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Hillary Clinton has a comfortable lead in Michigan too - though Bernie Sanders is touting the fact that he performs better in Michigan against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz than Clinton does
Following Trump, on the Republican side is Ted Cruz with 22 percent from likely GOP primary voters, compared to Trump's 41 percent support.
Yesterday was a good day for the Texas senator, who bested Trump in Kansas and Maine, while scoring second place in Louisiana and Kentucky.
While The Donald is still ahead in the delegate count, Cruz is slowly chipping away at that lead.
Marco Rubio, who is in third place in Michigan with 17 percent support, had a disappointing Saturday, coming in third place in Kansas, Louisiana and Kentucky, while slipping to fourth place in Maine, where Ohio Gov. John Kasich performed better than the Florida senator.
Kasich earned 13 percent support in the new NBC Michigan poll.
Another poll out this morning, this one a CBS News Battleground Tracker poll, echoes the NBC results in Michigan.
In the CBS poll, Trump receives 39 percent support from Michigan Republican.
Cruz comes in second with 24 points.
Rubio and Kasich are practically tied, with Rubio earning 16 percent support, to Kasich's 15 percent.
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Hillary Clinton has a 17 point lead in Michigan over rival Bernie Sanders, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. The two Democratic candidates will face-off tonight in Flint
Pollsters also looked at why the Republican 'establishment' hasn't been able to derail Trump's run to the nomination thus far.
They found that by four to one, Michigan Republicans say they're less likely to vote for a candidate with establishment backing.
This could spell trouble for Rubio who received a flurry of endorsements from mainstream politicians in recent weeks, in an effort to prop up his struggling bid that could come to an end when Florida votes on March 15, as it will be an embarrassment if the senator can't win his home state.
Republicans not supporting Trump - who on Sunday made an appearance before the start of play during the final round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral Blue Monster Course in Florida - were split on what the party should do about the brash billionaire, who many fear will blow up the GOP.
In the CBS poll, 43 percent said the party should do all it can to keep Trump from winning the nomination, while 37 percent said the party should get behind the frontrunner in an effort to win back the White House in November.
On the Democratic side, both polls shows Clinton leading Sanders in the Wolverine state.
The two will debate in Flint, Michigan tonight on CNN, just days after Republicans held their debate in Detroit.
The NBC poll shows Clinton at 57 percent to Sanders' 40 percent among likely Democratic primary voters.
Trump made an appearance prior to the start of play during the final round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral Blue Monster Course in Florida on Sunday
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The race narrows when the question is asked to Democrats generally, with 52 percent supporting Clinton and 44 percent supporting Sanders.
The CBS poll has Clinton 11 points ahead of Sanders, earning 55 percent support to his 44 percent support.
NBC also looked at hypothetical general election match-ups in the state of Michigan, which hasn't voted for a Republican since 1988.
The poll found that Clinton beats Trump 52 percent to 36 percent. Sanders bests Trump 56 percent to 34 percent.
Sanders grabbed on to this silver lining in the state this morning when being interviewed on CNN's State of the Union.
'We are doing better against Trump than Hillary Clinton is,' Sanders said. 'I think there was a poll that came out where we beat Trump in Michigan by 22 points. So if Democrats want the strongest candidate to beat Trump, I think you're looking at him.'
Both Democrats also beat Cruz in the state, though it's a tighter race, especially if Clinton is the Democratic nominee.
She only beats the Texas senator by 7 points – 48 percent to his 41 percent.
Sanders topples Cruz 54 percent to 36 percent.
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- Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have double-digit leads in Michigan, which votes on March 8
- Ted Cruz, who had great electoral luck this weekend, is second place behind Trump in both news polls
- Republican voters are split on what to do about Trump, some saying the party should stop him and others saying the GOP needs to get behind him
- While Sanders is behind Clinton in Michigan, he is pointing out that he's stronger in the general election in the state
- See more of the latest poll news on the 2016 US presidential elections
PUBLISHED: 16:08, 6 March 2016 | UPDATED: 20:01, 6 March 2016
The frontrunners, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, are at the front of the pack in Michigan, two new polls show today.
Trump, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, bests his Republican rivals by 19 points in the state, where voters will head to the polls in two days.
Clinton has a 17 point edge among likely Democratic primary voters when matched up against rival Bernie Sanders.
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Donald Trump is looking good in Michigan - with two polls show him way ahead of the Republican pack, which now only includes three other candidates
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Frontrunner Donald Trump is poised to take Michigan too - with a double-digit lead over rival Ted Cruz in the state, which votes in just two days
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Hillary Clinton has a comfortable lead in Michigan too - though Bernie Sanders is touting the fact that he performs better in Michigan against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz than Clinton does
Following Trump, on the Republican side is Ted Cruz with 22 percent from likely GOP primary voters, compared to Trump's 41 percent support.
Yesterday was a good day for the Texas senator, who bested Trump in Kansas and Maine, while scoring second place in Louisiana and Kentucky.
While The Donald is still ahead in the delegate count, Cruz is slowly chipping away at that lead.
Marco Rubio, who is in third place in Michigan with 17 percent support, had a disappointing Saturday, coming in third place in Kansas, Louisiana and Kentucky, while slipping to fourth place in Maine, where Ohio Gov. John Kasich performed better than the Florida senator.
Kasich earned 13 percent support in the new NBC Michigan poll.
Another poll out this morning, this one a CBS News Battleground Tracker poll, echoes the NBC results in Michigan.
In the CBS poll, Trump receives 39 percent support from Michigan Republican.
Cruz comes in second with 24 points.
Rubio and Kasich are practically tied, with Rubio earning 16 percent support, to Kasich's 15 percent.
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Hillary Clinton has a 17 point lead in Michigan over rival Bernie Sanders, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. The two Democratic candidates will face-off tonight in Flint
Pollsters also looked at why the Republican 'establishment' hasn't been able to derail Trump's run to the nomination thus far.
They found that by four to one, Michigan Republicans say they're less likely to vote for a candidate with establishment backing.
This could spell trouble for Rubio who received a flurry of endorsements from mainstream politicians in recent weeks, in an effort to prop up his struggling bid that could come to an end when Florida votes on March 15, as it will be an embarrassment if the senator can't win his home state.
Republicans not supporting Trump - who on Sunday made an appearance before the start of play during the final round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral Blue Monster Course in Florida - were split on what the party should do about the brash billionaire, who many fear will blow up the GOP.
In the CBS poll, 43 percent said the party should do all it can to keep Trump from winning the nomination, while 37 percent said the party should get behind the frontrunner in an effort to win back the White House in November.
On the Democratic side, both polls shows Clinton leading Sanders in the Wolverine state.
The two will debate in Flint, Michigan tonight on CNN, just days after Republicans held their debate in Detroit.
The NBC poll shows Clinton at 57 percent to Sanders' 40 percent among likely Democratic primary voters.
Trump made an appearance prior to the start of play during the final round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral Blue Monster Course in Florida on Sunday
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The race narrows when the question is asked to Democrats generally, with 52 percent supporting Clinton and 44 percent supporting Sanders.
The CBS poll has Clinton 11 points ahead of Sanders, earning 55 percent support to his 44 percent support.
NBC also looked at hypothetical general election match-ups in the state of Michigan, which hasn't voted for a Republican since 1988.
The poll found that Clinton beats Trump 52 percent to 36 percent. Sanders bests Trump 56 percent to 34 percent.
Sanders grabbed on to this silver lining in the state this morning when being interviewed on CNN's State of the Union.
'We are doing better against Trump than Hillary Clinton is,' Sanders said. 'I think there was a poll that came out where we beat Trump in Michigan by 22 points. So if Democrats want the strongest candidate to beat Trump, I think you're looking at him.'
Both Democrats also beat Cruz in the state, though it's a tighter race, especially if Clinton is the Democratic nominee.
She only beats the Texas senator by 7 points – 48 percent to his 41 percent.
Sanders topples Cruz 54 percent to 36 percent.
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How Donald Trump's tax-dodging migrant grandpa went from cutting hair to building an empire of brothels where customers could pay in gold dust or nuggets
PUBLISHED: 15:49, 6 March 2016 | UPDATED: 21:47, 6 March 2016
Vowing to turn away immigrants and run America like his own glittering business empire, Donald Trump has become the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
But he has been less vocal about the root of his success: a chain of seedy brothels and restaurants setup by his immigrant grandfather Friedrich Drumpf.
Born in Germany, Friedrich took a boat to New York City at the age of 16 in 1885 to join his older sister and find work.
The move sent him on a wild journey across America into the brothel industry of the Wild West, making him a fortune - and allowing him to dodge army service and taxes back home in Germany.
In fact, he even tried to return home to Kallstadt to marry his neighbor sweetheart and settle down with his wealth, according to German history books. But he was refused repatriation and was forced back to New York to start a family - and ultimately raise a likely contender for the presidency.
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Friedrich Drumpf made his wealth from a chain of seedy brothels and restaurants in the lawless Wild West during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. His businesses ultimately led to the fortune that made Donald Trump
Straight off the boat he met a German-speaking barber who took him on as an apprentice, toiling away for six hapless years while he lived in a tiny box apartment.
At the turn of the decade, however, he heard news of the Klondike gold rush set to hit the North West and Canada.
The shrewd 22-year-old changed his name to a more catchy 'Fred Trump' and headed to Seattle, Washington, in 1891.
He launched a saloon-cum-brothel called The Poodle Dog in the bustling district of opium parlors and liquor stores, where he got a flavor for the industry.
After a few years, Trump shifted his business up a few miles to the mining town of Monte Cristo to be closer to the workers - who showed their gratitude in cash, and plenty of it.
By the time the gold rush hit, he was ready.
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Trump followed the miners up towards with a friend, Ernest Levin.
Together, they started their business in a tent on the perilous and lawless route that all travelers had to take to reach the mine: White Pass, which was also known as the 'Dead Horse Trail'.
A narrow, steep, overcrowded dirt track, it was incredibly difficult for horses to navigate. Around 3,000 horses died from starvation, injuries, getting stuck in mud, or falling over cliffs, according to the University of Washington's Klondike Gold Rush resource page.
Putting the heaps of dead animals to use, and offering some respite for the exhausted travelers, Trump and Levin cooked horse meat for passing businessmen as they came to survey the mines.
Eventually, they moved the business to a two-story building in Bennett Town and named it New Arctic Restaurant and Hotel.
With round-the-clock food, liquor and even women for their clientele, it was a raging success.
'Customers depended on him for food, liquor and women,' Gwenda Blair, the Trumps' biographer, writes - describing Friedrich as 'hard living and hard drinking'.
'In the larder was salmon and an extraordinary variety of meats, including duck, ptarmigan, grouse, goose, and swan, as well as caribou, moose, goat, sheep, rabbit, and squirrel,' Blair writes in her book The Trumps.
'Incredibly, the New Arctic served fresh fruit: red currants, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, even cranberries.
'A small oasis of luxury, the Arctic’s menu was a vast improvement over what the two restaurateurs had been able to offer on the trail.'
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He was born in the sleepy German village of Kallstadt. Today, it has a population of just 1,200 people and the local dish is stuffed pork belly. Local history books say he tried to return aged 32 but was turned away
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Now, Friedrich Drumpf's grandson Donald in the maverick kingpin of the Trump empire (Pictured: Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City)
A local, however, described the business as 'depraved' in a letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper and advised 'respectable women travelling alone' to avoid it.
'For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex,' the letter read.
By 1897, a railroad now linked Skagway and Whitehorse and their Bennett Town location was no longer a thoroughfare, so Trump rebuilt the New Arctic on Whitehorse's Front Street.
According to Canadian magazine Up Here, the premises were open around the clock, serving as many as 3,000 meals a day to the loose-moralled men and women cavorting in its bars and bedrooms.
But trouble was brewing for Trump as Levin, partial to his booze, began running debts up around the town.
After just over three years in the north, Trump, again ahead of the curve, cashed in and shipped out, as stampeders fled the area in droves.
After the Arctic's success, Trump left as a respectable businessman with a enough cash to travel back to Germany.
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This is an advert for Fred Trump's restaurant-cum-brothel near the mines in Bennett, Canada
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Together, they started their business in a tent on the perilous and lawless route that all travelers had to take to reach the mine: White Pass, which was also known as the 'Dead Horse Trail' (archive image pictured)
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By the time he died in Queens at the age of 49, during a Spanish flu epidemic, Fred Sr had built up a fortune worth $31,642.54 - worth around $542,000 today - according to his will, which was published by Ancestry.com
According to Gwenda Blair, Trump married his neighbor Elizabeth Christ and planned to settle with her in Kallstadt with their newfound fortune.
However, having dodged conscription and years of taxes, he was refused repatriation.
The local history books record how Bavaria, the rulers of the town at the time, would not let him settle back in the town because he had forfeited citizenship by emigrating.
And so the newlyweds returned to New York City.
In 1905, his son Fred Jr, Donald's father, was born.
By the time he died in Queens at the age of 49, during a Spanish flu epidemic, Fred Sr had built up a fortune worth $31,642.54 - worth around $542,000 today - according to his will, which was published by Ancestry.com.
He left his small fortune to his wife Elizabeth, who used it to go into business with her eldest son Fred Jr, who was just 15 at the time.
The pair created the Trump empire, which is now headed by Fred Jr's maverick, entrepreneurial son, Donald.
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- Friedrich Drumpf was 16 when he moved to New York in 1885
- After 6 years as a barber, he went west to set up brothels near the mines
- Changed his name to the more catchy 'Fred Trump'
- It made him a fortune offering round-the-clock women, liquor and food
- He stayed in the US until 1901, tried to take his Gold Rush-era fortune home, was refused repatriation because he dodged taxes and army service
- So he and his new wife were sent back to New York to start their family
PUBLISHED: 15:49, 6 March 2016 | UPDATED: 21:47, 6 March 2016
Vowing to turn away immigrants and run America like his own glittering business empire, Donald Trump has become the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
But he has been less vocal about the root of his success: a chain of seedy brothels and restaurants setup by his immigrant grandfather Friedrich Drumpf.
Born in Germany, Friedrich took a boat to New York City at the age of 16 in 1885 to join his older sister and find work.
The move sent him on a wild journey across America into the brothel industry of the Wild West, making him a fortune - and allowing him to dodge army service and taxes back home in Germany.
In fact, he even tried to return home to Kallstadt to marry his neighbor sweetheart and settle down with his wealth, according to German history books. But he was refused repatriation and was forced back to New York to start a family - and ultimately raise a likely contender for the presidency.
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Friedrich Drumpf made his wealth from a chain of seedy brothels and restaurants in the lawless Wild West during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. His businesses ultimately led to the fortune that made Donald Trump
Straight off the boat he met a German-speaking barber who took him on as an apprentice, toiling away for six hapless years while he lived in a tiny box apartment.
At the turn of the decade, however, he heard news of the Klondike gold rush set to hit the North West and Canada.
The shrewd 22-year-old changed his name to a more catchy 'Fred Trump' and headed to Seattle, Washington, in 1891.
He launched a saloon-cum-brothel called The Poodle Dog in the bustling district of opium parlors and liquor stores, where he got a flavor for the industry.
After a few years, Trump shifted his business up a few miles to the mining town of Monte Cristo to be closer to the workers - who showed their gratitude in cash, and plenty of it.
By the time the gold rush hit, he was ready.
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Trump followed the miners up towards with a friend, Ernest Levin.
Together, they started their business in a tent on the perilous and lawless route that all travelers had to take to reach the mine: White Pass, which was also known as the 'Dead Horse Trail'.
A narrow, steep, overcrowded dirt track, it was incredibly difficult for horses to navigate. Around 3,000 horses died from starvation, injuries, getting stuck in mud, or falling over cliffs, according to the University of Washington's Klondike Gold Rush resource page.
Putting the heaps of dead animals to use, and offering some respite for the exhausted travelers, Trump and Levin cooked horse meat for passing businessmen as they came to survey the mines.
Eventually, they moved the business to a two-story building in Bennett Town and named it New Arctic Restaurant and Hotel.
With round-the-clock food, liquor and even women for their clientele, it was a raging success.
'Customers depended on him for food, liquor and women,' Gwenda Blair, the Trumps' biographer, writes - describing Friedrich as 'hard living and hard drinking'.
'In the larder was salmon and an extraordinary variety of meats, including duck, ptarmigan, grouse, goose, and swan, as well as caribou, moose, goat, sheep, rabbit, and squirrel,' Blair writes in her book The Trumps.
'Incredibly, the New Arctic served fresh fruit: red currants, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, even cranberries.
'A small oasis of luxury, the Arctic’s menu was a vast improvement over what the two restaurateurs had been able to offer on the trail.'
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He was born in the sleepy German village of Kallstadt. Today, it has a population of just 1,200 people and the local dish is stuffed pork belly. Local history books say he tried to return aged 32 but was turned away
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Now, Friedrich Drumpf's grandson Donald in the maverick kingpin of the Trump empire (Pictured: Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City)
A local, however, described the business as 'depraved' in a letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper and advised 'respectable women travelling alone' to avoid it.
'For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex,' the letter read.
By 1897, a railroad now linked Skagway and Whitehorse and their Bennett Town location was no longer a thoroughfare, so Trump rebuilt the New Arctic on Whitehorse's Front Street.
According to Canadian magazine Up Here, the premises were open around the clock, serving as many as 3,000 meals a day to the loose-moralled men and women cavorting in its bars and bedrooms.
But trouble was brewing for Trump as Levin, partial to his booze, began running debts up around the town.
After just over three years in the north, Trump, again ahead of the curve, cashed in and shipped out, as stampeders fled the area in droves.
After the Arctic's success, Trump left as a respectable businessman with a enough cash to travel back to Germany.
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This is an advert for Fred Trump's restaurant-cum-brothel near the mines in Bennett, Canada
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Together, they started their business in a tent on the perilous and lawless route that all travelers had to take to reach the mine: White Pass, which was also known as the 'Dead Horse Trail' (archive image pictured)
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By the time he died in Queens at the age of 49, during a Spanish flu epidemic, Fred Sr had built up a fortune worth $31,642.54 - worth around $542,000 today - according to his will, which was published by Ancestry.com
According to Gwenda Blair, Trump married his neighbor Elizabeth Christ and planned to settle with her in Kallstadt with their newfound fortune.
However, having dodged conscription and years of taxes, he was refused repatriation.
The local history books record how Bavaria, the rulers of the town at the time, would not let him settle back in the town because he had forfeited citizenship by emigrating.
And so the newlyweds returned to New York City.
In 1905, his son Fred Jr, Donald's father, was born.
By the time he died in Queens at the age of 49, during a Spanish flu epidemic, Fred Sr had built up a fortune worth $31,642.54 - worth around $542,000 today - according to his will, which was published by Ancestry.com.
He left his small fortune to his wife Elizabeth, who used it to go into business with her eldest son Fred Jr, who was just 15 at the time.
The pair created the Trump empire, which is now headed by Fred Jr's maverick, entrepreneurial son, Donald.
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BREAKING: 27-Year-Old Video Of TRUMP Surfaces, THIS Will Make Liberals Furious!!!
According to Conservative Tribune, the video shows a 1988 interview with Oprah in which Trump does not hold back!
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BREAKING: 27-Year-Old Video Of TRUMP Surfaces, THIS Will Make Liberals Furious!!!
According to Conservative Tribune, the video shows a 1988 interview with Oprah in which Trump does not hold back!
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How Donald Trump's tax-dodging migrant grandpa went from cutting hair to building an empire of brothels where customers could pay in gold dust or nuggets
- Friedrich Drumpf was 16 when he moved to New York in 1885
By MIA DE GRAAF FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
- After 6 years as a barber, he went west to set up brothels near the mines
- Changed his name to the more catchy 'Fred Trump'
- It made him a fortune offering round-the-clock women, liquor and food
- He stayed in the US until 1901, tried to take his Gold Rush-era fortune home, was refused repatriation because he dodged taxes and army service
- So he and his new wife were sent back to New York to start their family
PUBLISHED: 15:49, 6 March 2016 | UPDATED: 21:47, 6 March 2016
Vowing to turn away immigrants and run America like his own glittering business empire, Donald Trump has become the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
But he has been less vocal about the root of his success: a chain of seedy brothels and restaurants setup by his immigrant grandfather Friedrich Drumpf.
Born in Germany, Friedrich took a boat to New York City at the age of 16 in 1885 to join his older sister and find work.
The move sent him on a wild journey across America into the brothel industry of the Wild West, making him a fortune - and allowing him to dodge army service and taxes back home in Germany.
In fact, he even tried to return home to Kallstadt to marry his neighbor sweetheart and settle down with his wealth, according to German history books. But he was refused repatriation and was forced back to New York to start a family - and ultimately raise a likely contender for the presidency.
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Friedrich Drumpf made his wealth from a chain of seedy brothels and restaurants in the lawless Wild West during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. His businesses ultimately led to the fortune that made Donald Trump
Straight off the boat he met a German-speaking barber who took him on as an apprentice, toiling away for six hapless years while he lived in a tiny box apartment.
At the turn of the decade, however, he heard news of the Klondike gold rush set to hit the North West and Canada.
The shrewd 22-year-old changed his name to a more catchy 'Fred Trump' and headed to Seattle, Washington, in 1891.
He launched a saloon-cum-brothel called The Poodle Dog in the bustling district of opium parlors and liquor stores, where he got a flavor for the industry.
After a few years, Trump shifted his business up a few miles to the mining town of Monte Cristo to be closer to the workers - who showed their gratitude in cash, and plenty of it.
By the time the gold rush hit, he was ready.
.
Trump followed the miners up towards with a friend, Ernest Levin.
Together, they started their business in a tent on the perilous and lawless route that all travelers had to take to reach the mine: White Pass, which was also known as the 'Dead Horse Trail'.
A narrow, steep, overcrowded dirt track, it was incredibly difficult for horses to navigate. Around 3,000 horses died from starvation, injuries, getting stuck in mud, or falling over cliffs, according to the University of Washington's Klondike Gold Rush resource page.
Putting the heaps of dead animals to use, and offering some respite for the exhausted travelers, Trump and Levin cooked horse meat for passing businessmen as they came to survey the mines.
Eventually, they moved the business to a two-story building in Bennett Town and named it New Arctic Restaurant and Hotel.
With round-the-clock food, liquor and even women for their clientele, it was a raging success.
'Customers depended on him for food, liquor and women,' Gwenda Blair, the Trumps' biographer, writes - describing Friedrich as 'hard living and hard drinking'.
'In the larder was salmon and an extraordinary variety of meats, including duck, ptarmigan, grouse, goose, and swan, as well as caribou, moose, goat, sheep, rabbit, and squirrel,' Blair writes in her book The Trumps.
'Incredibly, the New Arctic served fresh fruit: red currants, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, even cranberries.
'A small oasis of luxury, the Arctic’s menu was a vast improvement over what the two restaurateurs had been able to offer on the trail.'
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He was born in the sleepy German village of Kallstadt. Today, it has a population of just 1,200 people and the local dish is stuffed pork belly. Local history books say he tried to return aged 32 but was turned away
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Now, Friedrich Drumpf's grandson Donald in the maverick kingpin of the Trump empire (Pictured: Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City)
A local, however, described the business as 'depraved' in a letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper and advised 'respectable women travelling alone' to avoid it.
'For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex,' the letter read.
By 1897, a railroad now linked Skagway and Whitehorse and their Bennett Town location was no longer a thoroughfare, so Trump rebuilt the New Arctic on Whitehorse's Front Street.
According to Canadian magazine Up Here, the premises were open around the clock, serving as many as 3,000 meals a day to the loose-moralled men and women cavorting in its bars and bedrooms.
But trouble was brewing for Trump as Levin, partial to his booze, began running debts up around the town.
After just over three years in the north, Trump, again ahead of the curve, cashed in and shipped out, as stampeders fled the area in droves.
After the Arctic's success, Trump left as a respectable businessman with a enough cash to travel back to Germany.
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This is an advert for Fred Trump's restaurant-cum-brothel near the mines in Bennett, Canada
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Together, they started their business in a tent on the perilous and lawless route that all travelers had to take to reach the mine: White Pass, which was also known as the 'Dead Horse Trail' (archive image pictured)
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By the time he died in Queens at the age of 49, during a Spanish flu epidemic, Fred Sr had built up a fortune worth $31,642.54 - worth around $542,000 today - according to his will, which was published by Ancestry.com
According to Gwenda Blair, Trump married his neighbor Elizabeth Christ and planned to settle with her in Kallstadt with their newfound fortune.
However, having dodged conscription and years of taxes, he was refused repatriation.
The local history books record how Bavaria, the rulers of the town at the time, would not let him settle back in the town because he had forfeited citizenship by emigrating.
And so the newlyweds returned to New York City.
In 1905, his son Fred Jr, Donald's father, was born.
By the time he died in Queens at the age of 49, during a Spanish flu epidemic, Fred Sr had built up a fortune worth $31,642.54 - worth around $542,000 today - according to his will, which was published by Ancestry.com.
He left his small fortune to his wife Elizabeth, who used it to go into business with her eldest son Fred Jr, who was just 15 at the time.
The pair created the Trump empire, which is now headed by Fred Jr's maverick, entrepreneurial son, Donald.
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You consistently publish the most irrelevant, long winded shit of anybody in here. WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT TRUMP'S ANCESTORS??????? Like a critic said, he was born on third base and thinks he hit a home run. Why don't you try publishing things about how he is affecting the GOP?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nald-trump-is-ruining-paul-ryans-speakership/
How Donald Trump is ruining Paul Ryan’s speakership
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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan stepped in front of cameras Tuesday and delivered just the sort of high-minded, clear-eyed, aspirational message that has made him a Republican Party standard-bearer.
”This party does not prey on people’s prejudices; we appeal to their highest ideals,” he said. “We believe all people are created equal in the eyes of God and our government. This is fundamental, and if someone wants to be our nominee, they must understand this.”
Moments later, asked what if that nominee were in fact Donald Trump — who days before had balked at denouncing the Ku Klux Klan — he was forced to retreat from the moral high ground. ”I plan to support the nominee,” he said.
When he was drafted into the speaker’s chair four months ago, Ryan acknowledged the job would be difficult. But, thanks to Trump, it has become much worse than that. He has come to embody the party establishment’s existential conflict: deeply wary of Trump’s divisive antics but reluctant to reject him entirely.
“It’s not nearly as complicated for us as it is for him,” said Peter Wehner, a Ryan friend and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who was among the first conservative thinkers to renounce Trump. “His is a different role, and it’s a trickier role, and it requires a lot of prudence, frankly.”
Prudence, however, has gotten Ryan only so far politically. The expected complications of managing the House Republican majority have only been compounded by Trump’s unexpected endurance. Ryan’s attempts to sail above the presidential fray with an emphasis on big ideas and basic legislating have been undermined both by hard-line House conservatives and by an angry presidential front-runner who all but mocks the reverence for the party’s leading “ideas man.”
”Paul Ryan, I don’t know him well, but I’m sure I’m going to get along great with him,” Trump said Tuesday. “And if I don’t, he’s going to have to pay a big price, okay?”
House conservatives, meanwhile, are making it all but impossible for Ryan to strike a GOP consensus on spending, setting the stage for the same type of contentious year-end budget negotiations that bedeviled his predecessor, John A. Boehner.
Ryan has undoubtedly kept his sunny disposition. He has embraced his role as a leading GOP communicator on cable TV and talk radio, has proved to be a prodigious fundraiser, and continues to enjoy support across the House Republican conference.
“Speaker Ryan is the ultimate optimist, and the job has only energized him,” said Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong.
But well-laid plans for the year ahead are hanging by a thread. For weeks, Ryan has been locked in a standoff with hard-liners who want to back out of the bipartisan spending agreement Boehner struck last year. That deal includes $30 billion in new spending and was supposed to set up a drama-free budget process ahead of the election in November.
Ryan has urged his colleagues to honor the agreement, arguing it will show the GOP-controlled Congress can effectively govern while giving rank-and-file lawmakers the influence they desire over individual spending bills.
But that argument is falling flat with members who are mindful of the anti-establishment fervor stoked by Trump’s success and are balking at boosting spending.
Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.), one of the five congressional Republicans to have endorsed Trump, said conservatives are simply listening to voters. “Overwhelmingly in my district, people are tired of insiders,” he said.
Even members who don’t back Trump say it is impossible to ignore the sense that the voters want to shake up Washington, even if it means discarding Ryan’s plans. “If we dismiss the national sentiment out there, we do it at great peril,” said Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas), who has not endorsed a presidential candidate.
The reprise of the spending fight has forced Ryan to spend weeks trying to keep his conference united on tactics, while his quest to animate Republican voters through policy has been all but overwhelmed by the Trump spectacle. He increasingly finds himself being asked to respond to whatever controversy Trump has stoked that day or week.
“No politician wants to have to be in the position where they have to denounce the comments of a member of their own party,” said Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.). “It’s a terrible position to be in, and with Donald Trump — how many times will you have to do this?”
Addressing reporters Thursday, Ryan said he had laughed off Trump’s “pay a big price” threat and played down his own ability to shape the presidential race. In declining further comment on Trump, he emphasized, as he has previously, his special role as chairman of the Republican National Convention.
”As speaker of the House, what can I do about it, what can I control?” he said. “I can help put substance in this campaign. The way we see our role in this campaign, through our agenda project, is to add a keel and a rudder to this ship of the Republican Party, and give it direction.”
Ryan appointed five task forces last month to develop detailed policy agendas on such issues as national security, health care and federal regulations. But on numerous ideas close to Ryan’s heart — free trade, immigration reform, tax reform, entitlement cuts — Trump holds conflicting, if not opposing views.
Asked what use his agenda will be if Trump is the nominee, Ryan said, “Look, we’re going to speak out for who we are and what we believe; we’re going to run on our beliefs, we’re going to run on our ideas. I’ll just leave it at that.”
Ryan counts himself as a proud “movement conservative,” but that does not describe the bulk of the Trump base. “Trump has Democrats supporting him, and people who are not even anywhere in the same camp about spending,” said Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio), a close Ryan ally.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee highlighted the chasm between Trump’s angry populism and Ryan’s happy-warrior conservatism when it circulated a mock obituary for Ryan’s “Year of Ideas” on Friday.
“It met its untimely and early end at the hands of a Republican electorate that is simply not interested in policy and good governance,” it read.
Wehner said if Trump progresses toward the nomination, he may have no choice but to make amends with Ryan.
“There are going to have to be some people who are going to have to deal with him that are responsible and sane human beings, and Ryan is one of them,” he said. “Trump has zero ideas, he has no governing philosophy, he has no governing agenda, he’s got nothing. And presumably he’s at some point going to figure out that he needs something, and Paul Ryan is probably the best person in the Republican Party to fill that void.”
