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President Trump @DJTrump16 2h2 hours ago@realDonaldTrump will have the most primary votes!!! UNDENIABLE!!!
President Trump @DJTrump16 2h2 hours ago@realDonaldTrump will have the most primary votes!!! UNDENIABLE!!!
A little common sense if Republicans want to win the WH.
“Trump is on track to receive more votes than any Republican nominee ever,” Carlson said. “He’s already surpassed Mitt Romney’s number in 2012. It doesn’t mean he’s a great guy or that he’ll be a great president. It does mean that he is the choice of Republican voters and give them the finger at your peril.”
Carlson added Trump’s appeal to voters was an economic one and that it was time for the put those voters ahead of “donors and think tank intellectuals.”
“Trump is on track to receive more votes than any Republican nominee ever,” Carlson said. “He’s already surpassed Mitt Romney’s number in 2012. It doesn’t mean he’s a great guy or that he’ll be a great president. It does mean that he is the choice of Republican voters and give them the finger at your peril.”
Carlson added Trump’s appeal to voters was an economic one and that it was time for the put those voters ahead of “donors and think tank intellectuals.”
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[h=6]- APRIL 28, 2016 -[/h][h=1]THIS IS THE DONALD TRUMP THAT COULD WIN 40 STATES[/h]Breitbart
Trump’s speech today to the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI), an old-line “realist” think tank in DC, was well received. CFTNI was once known as the Nixon Center, as in, the 37th president, and it still includes on its board such legendary Nixon foreign-policy hands as Henry Kissinger.
Not surprisingly, Trump’s hard-nosed policy ideas were a tonic to grizzled Nixonian realpolitikers. Yet at the same time, his ideas were cheering to a younger generation, weary of the endless wars-for-democracy of the Bush 43 administration, as well as the foolishly sovereignty-smiting policies of the Clinton and Obama administrations.
Indeed, in choosing to speak before CFTNI, as opposed to, say, AEI or Heritage, Trump was sending a clear signal to the neocons who dominated the Bush 43 administration:Your days of costly nation-building are done. (And yet interestingly, Trump was introduced by Zalmay Khalilzad, Bush 43’s ambassador to the United Nations.)
So when Trump puts his mind to it, he can be not only entertaining but also effective. His CFTNI speech, on top of his March 21 speech to the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), proves that Trump can operate smoothly at the presidential level.
In his 38-minute address, Trump got right down to it: “It’s time to shake the rust off America’s foreign policy. It’s time to invite new voices and new visions into the fold, something we have to do.”
That is, indeed, the sort of new broom that the voters have been looking for; it has animated not only the Trump campaign but also, we can observe, the Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign.
Yes, we’ve had quite enough of “experts” who get their “genius” thoughts published in The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, thereby shaping the failed foreign policies of the last three presidents.
As Trump said, under his leadership, “If America fights, it will only fight to win… victory with a capital ‘V.’” In the preceding sentence, we might note, first, the “if” and, second, the “V” for “Victory.” It’s thus easy to see Trump sewing up the military vote, which is generally Republican. So sorry, Huffington Post, your attempt to stir the politico-military pot is not going to succeed.
Yet at the same time, Trump made it clear that he was going to be not only careful but also judicious. He quoted the realist wisdom of John Quincy Adams from 1821: “We do not go abroad in search of enemies.”
Thus, in Trump’s words, we can see something that’s simultaneously both new and old: “The direction I will outline today will also return us to a timeless principle. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else… That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make.”
Yet Trump, being Trump, was never going to let a speech be nothing but airy abstractions; he dug right in on familiar specifics: “We must stop importing extremism through senseless immigration policies.”
Thus in one sentence Trump staked out of his opposition to the borderless immigration policies of the last three presidents, going back to the early ’90s. None of them—not Clinton, not Bush 43, not Obama—have adequately defended the interests of the United States and its citizens. And some haven’t even tried.
Indeed, Trump went further, sharply separating himself from the giddy utopianism that inspired Barack Obama to travel to Europe and try to prop up the faltering European Union:
During his administration, Trump said, “No American citizen will ever again feel that their needs come second to the citizens of foreign countries.” Again, that’s how a rookie at politics goes right to the top job on his first try.
Completing his survey of the world, Trump reiterated his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, and then paused to meditate over our “complicated relationships with Russia and China.” He added, “We are not bound to be adversaries; we should seek common ground.”
Addressing Russia first, Trump declared his belief that “an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia–from a position of strength—is possible.” Continuing, he laid out this game plan, straight from the Nixon-Kissinger-Reagan playbook: “Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end. Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t make a good deal for America, then we will quickly walk from the table.”
Moving to China, Trump declared, “A strong and smart America is an America that will find a better friend in China. We can both benefit or we can both go our separate ways.”
Yet at the same time, he didn’t minimize the challenge with China: “We have allowed China to steal government secrets and engage in massive industrial espionage.” And then, of course, there’s the issue of trade—Trump didn’t back a bit from his hawkishness.
Not every American will agree with his words, but most will. So Trump’s political challenge is to keep it up for the next seven months: Keep making the case for a center-right realism—while the Democrats poison themselves with crime-friendly political correctness and multiculturalism.
To be sure, Trump still has his quirks: He likes to say, for example, that a president should be “unpredictable.” Without a doubt, unpredictability is a virtue in a deal-making business executive, but it’s less of a virtue in a commander-in-chief.
Also, Trump likes to use the historically loaded phrase, “America First.” As he told the CFTNI, “America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration, one that replaces randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy and chaos with peace.”
America First, of course, was the name of the isolationist movement just prior to World War Two. Many of the America Firsters were perfectly sincere patriots, although not all were. And in any case, the good ones and the bad ones were all deeply discredited by Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, followed by Nazi Germany’s declaration of war against the US four days later.
These quibbles over “unpredictable” and “America First” might seem like the mere parsing of words, and perhaps so—but that’s politics.
Meanwhile, even as Trump was speaking, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was gearing up to respond, putting former secretary of state Madeleine Albright—holding, of course, a harshly opposing view—on the phone with reporters.
And then, to make it a one-two punch,
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina—every Democrat’s favorite Republican-bashing Republican—was busy tweeting out his latest anti-Trump tantrum for the “high church” neocons. Whereupon David Brock, the ex-conservative who has became Hillary’s best friend, was on the case, eagerly echoing Graham’s tweets, among others.
So Trump has his work cut out for him. The Clinton attack machine—bolstered, of course, by the likes of Lindsey Graham—is indeed formidable.
Yet Hillary must overcome the not-so-dry rot of the last eight years. Only once since World War Two has a party managed to win a third consecutive term in the White House, as Hillary is trying to do in 2016.
And as for Trump, if he can stick to his center-right message—that is, saving America from the globalists of the right as well as of the left—and if he can offer a vision of broad prosperity, while not jumping into military quagmires, well, there’s a word for that: WINNING.
Trump’s speech today to the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI), an old-line “realist” think tank in DC, was well received. CFTNI was once known as the Nixon Center, as in, the 37th president, and it still includes on its board such legendary Nixon foreign-policy hands as Henry Kissinger.
Not surprisingly, Trump’s hard-nosed policy ideas were a tonic to grizzled Nixonian realpolitikers. Yet at the same time, his ideas were cheering to a younger generation, weary of the endless wars-for-democracy of the Bush 43 administration, as well as the foolishly sovereignty-smiting policies of the Clinton and Obama administrations.
Indeed, in choosing to speak before CFTNI, as opposed to, say, AEI or Heritage, Trump was sending a clear signal to the neocons who dominated the Bush 43 administration:Your days of costly nation-building are done. (And yet interestingly, Trump was introduced by Zalmay Khalilzad, Bush 43’s ambassador to the United Nations.)
So when Trump puts his mind to it, he can be not only entertaining but also effective. His CFTNI speech, on top of his March 21 speech to the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), proves that Trump can operate smoothly at the presidential level.
In his 38-minute address, Trump got right down to it: “It’s time to shake the rust off America’s foreign policy. It’s time to invite new voices and new visions into the fold, something we have to do.”
That is, indeed, the sort of new broom that the voters have been looking for; it has animated not only the Trump campaign but also, we can observe, the Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign.
Yes, we’ve had quite enough of “experts” who get their “genius” thoughts published in The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, thereby shaping the failed foreign policies of the last three presidents.
As Trump said, under his leadership, “If America fights, it will only fight to win… victory with a capital ‘V.’” In the preceding sentence, we might note, first, the “if” and, second, the “V” for “Victory.” It’s thus easy to see Trump sewing up the military vote, which is generally Republican. So sorry, Huffington Post, your attempt to stir the politico-military pot is not going to succeed.
Yet at the same time, Trump made it clear that he was going to be not only careful but also judicious. He quoted the realist wisdom of John Quincy Adams from 1821: “We do not go abroad in search of enemies.”
Thus, in Trump’s words, we can see something that’s simultaneously both new and old: “The direction I will outline today will also return us to a timeless principle. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else… That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make.”
Yet Trump, being Trump, was never going to let a speech be nothing but airy abstractions; he dug right in on familiar specifics: “We must stop importing extremism through senseless immigration policies.”
Thus in one sentence Trump staked out of his opposition to the borderless immigration policies of the last three presidents, going back to the early ’90s. None of them—not Clinton, not Bush 43, not Obama—have adequately defended the interests of the United States and its citizens. And some haven’t even tried.
Indeed, Trump went further, sharply separating himself from the giddy utopianism that inspired Barack Obama to travel to Europe and try to prop up the faltering European Union:
The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down… Under my administration, we will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs.
And then he singled out, as examples of what not to do, NAFTA and policies obsessed with “global warming.”
During his administration, Trump said, “No American citizen will ever again feel that their needs come second to the citizens of foreign countries.” Again, that’s how a rookie at politics goes right to the top job on his first try.
Completing his survey of the world, Trump reiterated his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, and then paused to meditate over our “complicated relationships with Russia and China.” He added, “We are not bound to be adversaries; we should seek common ground.”
Addressing Russia first, Trump declared his belief that “an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia–from a position of strength—is possible.” Continuing, he laid out this game plan, straight from the Nixon-Kissinger-Reagan playbook: “Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end. Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t make a good deal for America, then we will quickly walk from the table.”
Moving to China, Trump declared, “A strong and smart America is an America that will find a better friend in China. We can both benefit or we can both go our separate ways.”
Yet at the same time, he didn’t minimize the challenge with China: “We have allowed China to steal government secrets and engage in massive industrial espionage.” And then, of course, there’s the issue of trade—Trump didn’t back a bit from his hawkishness.
Not every American will agree with his words, but most will. So Trump’s political challenge is to keep it up for the next seven months: Keep making the case for a center-right realism—while the Democrats poison themselves with crime-friendly political correctness and multiculturalism.
To be sure, Trump still has his quirks: He likes to say, for example, that a president should be “unpredictable.” Without a doubt, unpredictability is a virtue in a deal-making business executive, but it’s less of a virtue in a commander-in-chief.
Also, Trump likes to use the historically loaded phrase, “America First.” As he told the CFTNI, “America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration, one that replaces randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy and chaos with peace.”
America First, of course, was the name of the isolationist movement just prior to World War Two. Many of the America Firsters were perfectly sincere patriots, although not all were. And in any case, the good ones and the bad ones were all deeply discredited by Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, followed by Nazi Germany’s declaration of war against the US four days later.
These quibbles over “unpredictable” and “America First” might seem like the mere parsing of words, and perhaps so—but that’s politics.
Meanwhile, even as Trump was speaking, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was gearing up to respond, putting former secretary of state Madeleine Albright—holding, of course, a harshly opposing view—on the phone with reporters.
And then, to make it a one-two punch,
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina—every Democrat’s favorite Republican-bashing Republican—was busy tweeting out his latest anti-Trump tantrum for the “high church” neocons. Whereupon David Brock, the ex-conservative who has became Hillary’s best friend, was on the case, eagerly echoing Graham’s tweets, among others.
So Trump has his work cut out for him. The Clinton attack machine—bolstered, of course, by the likes of Lindsey Graham—is indeed formidable.
Yet Hillary must overcome the not-so-dry rot of the last eight years. Only once since World War Two has a party managed to win a third consecutive term in the White House, as Hillary is trying to do in 2016.
And as for Trump, if he can stick to his center-right message—that is, saving America from the globalists of the right as well as of the left—and if he can offer a vision of broad prosperity, while not jumping into military quagmires, well, there’s a word for that: WINNING.
- APRIL 28, 2016 -
BOBBY KNIGHT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP: ‘THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MORE HONEST POLITICIAN’
Breitbart
"You folks are taking a look at the most prepared man in history to step in as President of the United States, that man right there,” Knight said of Trump.“There has never been a presidential candidate prepared to the length that this man is.”
Knight asked all former military members stand up and be recognized.
“There will be no president who has ever had a better relationship with our military nor they with them,” Knight told them. “This man will see that that group of people that we so depend on is really taken care of and treated in the best way possible.”
Knight commented on how many pundits say Trump should act more presidential. “I don’t know what the hell that means,” Knight joked. “To me, I think of Harry Truman. They said Harry Truman wasn’t presidential and damn he went on to be one of the three best presidents in United States’ history.”
“Under his administration, there will never be another thing like what happened in Benghazi,” Knight added. “That will never happen in a Trump administration.”
“There has never been a more honest politician than Donald Trump,” Knight declared. “You will be responsible for the shift that America will make into what we want America to be,” he added, telling everyone to vote for Trump on Tuesday.
BOBBY KNIGHT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP: ‘THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MORE HONEST POLITICIAN’
Breitbart
"You folks are taking a look at the most prepared man in history to step in as President of the United States, that man right there,” Knight said of Trump.“There has never been a presidential candidate prepared to the length that this man is.”
Knight asked all former military members stand up and be recognized.
“There will be no president who has ever had a better relationship with our military nor they with them,” Knight told them. “This man will see that that group of people that we so depend on is really taken care of and treated in the best way possible.”
Knight commented on how many pundits say Trump should act more presidential. “I don’t know what the hell that means,” Knight joked. “To me, I think of Harry Truman. They said Harry Truman wasn’t presidential and damn he went on to be one of the three best presidents in United States’ history.”
“Under his administration, there will never be another thing like what happened in Benghazi,” Knight added. “That will never happen in a Trump administration.”
“There has never been a more honest politician than Donald Trump,” Knight declared. “You will be responsible for the shift that America will make into what we want America to be,” he added, telling everyone to vote for Trump on Tuesday.
[h=6]- APRIL 28, 2016 -[/h][h=1]CONGRESSMAN SHUSTER ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT[/h](Hollidaysburg, PA) April 28th, 2016 – Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and delegate for the 9th Congressional District has announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for President:
"The people of the 9th Congressional District, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and states across the nation have made their voices heard, and I join them in supporting Donald Trump for President,” said Congressman Shuster. “Donald is a private sector business leader who knows what it takes to get things done - and that is something that Washington desperately needs. Donald also shares my passion for economic development, including making sure our nation’s infrastructure meets the needs of our citizens. It’s time for our party to unite behind Donald Trump and focus our time and energy on defeating Hillary Clinton.”
“I am proud today to have the endorsement of Congressman Bill Shuster," said Donald Trump. "As the Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Bill Shuster knows what it takes to make our economy work again. As one of the leaders of the Pennsylvania Delegation, I welcome Bill’s leadership and vision to our team. Bill is a strong conservative voice in Congress, and together we will rebuild our infrastructure and deliver on the promise to Make America Great Again.”
Congressman Bill Shuster will also be serving as a delegate at the Republican Convention after being elected as one of the three delegates for the 9th Congressional District earlier this week.
"The people of the 9th Congressional District, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and states across the nation have made their voices heard, and I join them in supporting Donald Trump for President,” said Congressman Shuster. “Donald is a private sector business leader who knows what it takes to get things done - and that is something that Washington desperately needs. Donald also shares my passion for economic development, including making sure our nation’s infrastructure meets the needs of our citizens. It’s time for our party to unite behind Donald Trump and focus our time and energy on defeating Hillary Clinton.”
“I am proud today to have the endorsement of Congressman Bill Shuster," said Donald Trump. "As the Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Bill Shuster knows what it takes to make our economy work again. As one of the leaders of the Pennsylvania Delegation, I welcome Bill’s leadership and vision to our team. Bill is a strong conservative voice in Congress, and together we will rebuild our infrastructure and deliver on the promise to Make America Great Again.”
Congressman Bill Shuster will also be serving as a delegate at the Republican Convention after being elected as one of the three delegates for the 9th Congressional District earlier this week.
Donald has 10.1 MILLION votes with 10 primaries left to go:
Trump is on track to smash the modern record for most votes in a Republican primary season
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:48, 28 April 2016 | UPDATED: 20:44, 28 April 2016
Donald Trump could end the presidential primary season with more individual votes than any other Republican candidate in modern history, according to an analysis of the results so far.
Nearly 10.1 million Americans have voted for the real estate tycoon in GOP primaries so far, including the results from Tuesday's five Northeastern contests.
That's already about 200,000 more than 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney had at the end of the entire primary season four years ago.
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YUUUGE: Donald Trump is collecting primary votes on a record-breaking pace this year
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MISUNDERESTIMATED: President George W. Bush has the modern record for primary votes but Trump could eclipse him this year
The modern record is 10.8 million votes, set by President George W. Bush in 2000, according to University of Minnesota political science professor Eric Ostermeier, who writes the Smart Politics blog.
TEN TO GO: THE REMAINING REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES
May 3: Indiana
May 10: Nebraska, West Virginia
May 17: Oregon
May 24: Washington
June 7: California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota
There are still 10 Republican primaries to come, including the mega-population center of California.
And as the nail-biter contest between Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich comes down to the wire, voter participation rates are climbing with each new statewide election.
Ostermeier told the New York Post that with so many contests left to be fought, Trump should easily break Bush's record.
'In an election cycle with a high Republican turnout, his numbers are rising, even more so now that there's only three candidates' left, he said.
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EATING TRUMP'S DUST: Mitt Romney got fewer primary votes in the entire 2012 campaign than Trump has with 10 primary elections left to go
There's some disagreement about exactly how many votes Bush got in 2000, with some estimates ranging as high as 12 million.
But Ostermeier says Trump will likely exceed even that number because of his celebrity and the white-hot light of publicity that has turned the GOP presidential race into a political cage match.
Indiana's primary is next, coming in just five days. Nebraska and West Virginia come a week later, followed by Oregon the week after that.
The big prize is California, where Republicans will head to the polls on June 7.
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Trump is on track to smash the modern record for most votes in a Republican primary season
- Trump has about 10.1 million votes so far in the GOP primary season
- The record is 10.8 million, the number George W. Bush collected in 2000
- Political science professor says Trump will get far more by the time Californians vote on June 7
- There are still 10 Republican primary elections left to come, beginning with Indiana next Tuesday
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:48, 28 April 2016 | UPDATED: 20:44, 28 April 2016
Donald Trump could end the presidential primary season with more individual votes than any other Republican candidate in modern history, according to an analysis of the results so far.
Nearly 10.1 million Americans have voted for the real estate tycoon in GOP primaries so far, including the results from Tuesday's five Northeastern contests.
That's already about 200,000 more than 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney had at the end of the entire primary season four years ago.
+3
YUUUGE: Donald Trump is collecting primary votes on a record-breaking pace this year
+3
MISUNDERESTIMATED: President George W. Bush has the modern record for primary votes but Trump could eclipse him this year
The modern record is 10.8 million votes, set by President George W. Bush in 2000, according to University of Minnesota political science professor Eric Ostermeier, who writes the Smart Politics blog.
TEN TO GO: THE REMAINING REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES
May 3: Indiana
May 10: Nebraska, West Virginia
May 17: Oregon
May 24: Washington
June 7: California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota
There are still 10 Republican primaries to come, including the mega-population center of California.
And as the nail-biter contest between Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich comes down to the wire, voter participation rates are climbing with each new statewide election.
Ostermeier told the New York Post that with so many contests left to be fought, Trump should easily break Bush's record.
'In an election cycle with a high Republican turnout, his numbers are rising, even more so now that there's only three candidates' left, he said.
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EATING TRUMP'S DUST: Mitt Romney got fewer primary votes in the entire 2012 campaign than Trump has with 10 primary elections left to go
There's some disagreement about exactly how many votes Bush got in 2000, with some estimates ranging as high as 12 million.
But Ostermeier says Trump will likely exceed even that number because of his celebrity and the white-hot light of publicity that has turned the GOP presidential race into a political cage match.
Indiana's primary is next, coming in just five days. Nebraska and West Virginia come a week later, followed by Oregon the week after that.
The big prize is California, where Republicans will head to the polls on June 7.
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'Maybe it won't be that bad': Establishment GOP begins to warm to Trump as it comes to terms with the inevitable
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 20:39, 28 April 2016 | UPDATED: 21:36, 28 April 2016
Republican Party elites are beginning to warm to the idea of Donald Trump as their presidential nominee, including some establishment figures who just months ago were painting it as a harbinger of doom for the GOP.
'I think he could change the electoral map in ways we haven't seen before,' Texas Sen. John Cornyn said hopefully on Thursday.
Cornyn had previously predicted that a Trump nomination would be an 'albatross' around the party's neck, generating Democratic turnout numbers large enough to crush Republican congressional candidates.
But now he's telling CNN it could work out.
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TOLD YOU SO: Trump has claimed on the campaign trail that establishment Republicans will come out of the woodwork to support him, and the first trickle of a flood appears to be forming
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DON'T FREAK OUT: Texas Sen. John Cornyn said GOP elites 'don't need to despair' about a Trump nomination dragging the Republican Party down in November
'This disrupts the usual Republican vs. Democrat, conservative vs. liberal paradigm, and I think we don't know how this will all play out. I think it will be OK,' he said, laughing: 'You don't need to despair.'
Trump said Tuesday night after his five-state primary sweep that Republicans who have publicly disparaged him are now calling and asking 'if they can join our team.'
'I'm a unifier. I unify people,' he claimed.
'We will have people that are backing this party and backing my candidacy that you folks will not even believe,' he told reporters gathered at Trump Tower in New York City.
'We will have such unity. Now, I'm not saying everybody. Because some people have gone over the edge. But we will have people backing the party and backing [me for] the presidency. And we're going to win, and we're going to beat Hillary Clinton. And it's not even going to be hard.'
Many of the Johnny-come-latelies are Ted Cruz supporters, but with his campaign struggling and Trump's skating to the finish line, they've come around.
'Many of us who have expressed concerns are reconciling ourselves to the fact that in all likelihood he will be the eventual nominee,' South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a Cruz partisan, told CNN.
And Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker of Tennessee gave Trump's foreign policy address on Wednesday high marks, calling it 'very thoughtful.'
He said it could be a good thing for the U.S. if some world leaders were scared of Trump moving into the Oval Office.
'I did say to my staff that is somewhat of a welcome change,' Corker said. 'There is some good that comes with that.'
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SHAKE IT UP: Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said world leaders fearing Trump wouldn't be such a bad thing
.'If he's the nominee, we get creamed,' said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a former presidential candidate who now backs Cruz.
'We're going to get killed with women and Hispanics. It's going to be a wipeout.'
But Graham acknowledges that if Trump wins Indiana, the next winner-take-all primary state, 'it's over' and Cruz will be sent home packing.
Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, another Cruz supporter, said he can't support Trump in the general election.
'Some of his ideas are fine,' Amash said. 'Others are terrible.'
But Minnesota Rep. John Kline seemed resigned to the idea of a brash billionaire leading the charge in November.
'Certainly his tone, I find annoying to the very least,' he told CNN. 'He's not my choice, but I'm going to support the nominee.
Read more:
- Members of Congress who have scoffed at the idea of Trump as their presidential nominee are now ready to embrace him
- Trump claimed Tuesday night that former naysayers have come out of the woodwork to ask about helping him
- One senator who called the Trump campaign an 'albatross' around the GOP's neck now says he could shake up the election in a good way
- Another said it would be great if some world leaders were scared of Trump shaking up the world order from the Oval Office
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 20:39, 28 April 2016 | UPDATED: 21:36, 28 April 2016
Republican Party elites are beginning to warm to the idea of Donald Trump as their presidential nominee, including some establishment figures who just months ago were painting it as a harbinger of doom for the GOP.
'I think he could change the electoral map in ways we haven't seen before,' Texas Sen. John Cornyn said hopefully on Thursday.
Cornyn had previously predicted that a Trump nomination would be an 'albatross' around the party's neck, generating Democratic turnout numbers large enough to crush Republican congressional candidates.
But now he's telling CNN it could work out.
+5
TOLD YOU SO: Trump has claimed on the campaign trail that establishment Republicans will come out of the woodwork to support him, and the first trickle of a flood appears to be forming
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DON'T FREAK OUT: Texas Sen. John Cornyn said GOP elites 'don't need to despair' about a Trump nomination dragging the Republican Party down in November
'This disrupts the usual Republican vs. Democrat, conservative vs. liberal paradigm, and I think we don't know how this will all play out. I think it will be OK,' he said, laughing: 'You don't need to despair.'
Trump said Tuesday night after his five-state primary sweep that Republicans who have publicly disparaged him are now calling and asking 'if they can join our team.'
'I'm a unifier. I unify people,' he claimed.
'We will have people that are backing this party and backing my candidacy that you folks will not even believe,' he told reporters gathered at Trump Tower in New York City.
'We will have such unity. Now, I'm not saying everybody. Because some people have gone over the edge. But we will have people backing the party and backing [me for] the presidency. And we're going to win, and we're going to beat Hillary Clinton. And it's not even going to be hard.'
Many of the Johnny-come-latelies are Ted Cruz supporters, but with his campaign struggling and Trump's skating to the finish line, they've come around.
'Many of us who have expressed concerns are reconciling ourselves to the fact that in all likelihood he will be the eventual nominee,' South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a Cruz partisan, told CNN.
And Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker of Tennessee gave Trump's foreign policy address on Wednesday high marks, calling it 'very thoughtful.'
He said it could be a good thing for the U.S. if some world leaders were scared of Trump moving into the Oval Office.
'I did say to my staff that is somewhat of a welcome change,' Corker said. 'There is some good that comes with that.'
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SHAKE IT UP: Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said world leaders fearing Trump wouldn't be such a bad thing
.'If he's the nominee, we get creamed,' said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a former presidential candidate who now backs Cruz.
'We're going to get killed with women and Hispanics. It's going to be a wipeout.'
But Graham acknowledges that if Trump wins Indiana, the next winner-take-all primary state, 'it's over' and Cruz will be sent home packing.
Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, another Cruz supporter, said he can't support Trump in the general election.
'Some of his ideas are fine,' Amash said. 'Others are terrible.'
But Minnesota Rep. John Kline seemed resigned to the idea of a brash billionaire leading the charge in November.
'Certainly his tone, I find annoying to the very least,' he told CNN. 'He's not my choice, but I'm going to support the nominee.
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[h=6]- APRIL 29, 2016 -[/h][h=1]GOP WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT BEGINS WARMING TO TRUMP[/h]CNN
In February, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn bluntly said that a Donald Trump nomination could be an "albatross" to his Republican Party.
Wednesday, with Trump barreling toward the GOP nomination, Cornyn was singing a different tune.
"I think he could change the electoral map in ways we haven't seen before," Cornyn said when asked if he was worried about the Trump impact down-ticket. "This disrupts the usual Republican vs. Democrat, conservative vs. liberal paradigm, and I think we don't know how this will all play out. I think it will be OK."
"You don't need to despair," the Texas Republican added with a laugh.
Cornyn isn't alone. House and Senate Republicans are reluctantly coming to terms with the reality that the real estate mogul -- a man many feared given his unpredictability, questionable policy positions and lack of discipline on the campaign trail -- will likely be their party's standard bearer. Rather than fight it, a number of Republicans say, it may be time to embrace it.
"Many of us who have expressed concerns are reconciling ourselves to the fact that in all likelihood he will be the eventual nominee," said Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, who backs Sen. Ted Cruz for president.
After Trump delivered a foreign policy speech in Washington on Wednesday, some top Republicans were highly laudatory of the billionaire's positions, including Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, who called the speech "very thoughtful."
Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a close ally of Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, said with a chuckle that the fact that Trump scares some world leaders could be a good thing for the United States.
"I did say to my staff that is somewhat of a welcome change," Corker said. "There is some good that comes with that."
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Senate Republican, said Thursday he'd do "everything in my power" to help Trump if he's the nominee.
"I think he can be great if he'll get serious about being president -- and I think he will," Hatch said. "He's a clever, smart guy who will want to be remembered for doing great things. I have a feeling he can make that transition."
Behind the scenes, the Trump campaign is trying to broaden support on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, senior Trump adviser Paul Manafort continued the latest in a round of weekly outreach meetings, sitting down with roughly 16 House Republicans just steps from the Capitol. Afterward, Rep. Mike Kelly, who voted for Trump in Pennsylvania's primary on Tuesday, said he has been hearing more favorable reviews of the businessman in recent days.
"I think on the floor, there's a lot stronger support for Donald Trump then people possibly imagine," Kelly said.
While many conservatives aren't ready to publicly endorse Trump, some privately admit that they don't want to criticize him and antagonize his supporters, whom they will need to turn out in November to retain control of Congress.
Rep. Raul Labrador, an Idaho Republican who has endorsed Cruz, told reporters Wednesday that he's sympathetic to the concerns about Washington voiced by Trump backers.
"This is a way to give Congress and the Republican Party the middle finger," Labrador, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said of voting for Trump.
The comments reflect the hardening reality among Republicans on Capitol Hill that despite how unnerved many are about Trump, they realize they must recognize the will of GOP voters and get behind the businessman -- or risk seeing Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, as the next president. Moreover, many Republicans frankly fear that a messy nominating convention could be far worse than choosing Trump as their nominee.
And also, a number of Senate Republicans simply refuse to support Cruz because they don't think he has much of a chance to win the nomination and are irked at the way he's treated his colleagues.
With Trump as their likely nominee, Rep. Thomas Massie, a libertarian Kentucky Republican, said many Republicans will need "counseling."
"These folks should start enrolling today," Massie said.
In February, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn bluntly said that a Donald Trump nomination could be an "albatross" to his Republican Party.
Wednesday, with Trump barreling toward the GOP nomination, Cornyn was singing a different tune.
"I think he could change the electoral map in ways we haven't seen before," Cornyn said when asked if he was worried about the Trump impact down-ticket. "This disrupts the usual Republican vs. Democrat, conservative vs. liberal paradigm, and I think we don't know how this will all play out. I think it will be OK."
"You don't need to despair," the Texas Republican added with a laugh.
Cornyn isn't alone. House and Senate Republicans are reluctantly coming to terms with the reality that the real estate mogul -- a man many feared given his unpredictability, questionable policy positions and lack of discipline on the campaign trail -- will likely be their party's standard bearer. Rather than fight it, a number of Republicans say, it may be time to embrace it.
"Many of us who have expressed concerns are reconciling ourselves to the fact that in all likelihood he will be the eventual nominee," said Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, who backs Sen. Ted Cruz for president.
After Trump delivered a foreign policy speech in Washington on Wednesday, some top Republicans were highly laudatory of the billionaire's positions, including Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, who called the speech "very thoughtful."
Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a close ally of Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, said with a chuckle that the fact that Trump scares some world leaders could be a good thing for the United States.
"I did say to my staff that is somewhat of a welcome change," Corker said. "There is some good that comes with that."
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Senate Republican, said Thursday he'd do "everything in my power" to help Trump if he's the nominee.
"I think he can be great if he'll get serious about being president -- and I think he will," Hatch said. "He's a clever, smart guy who will want to be remembered for doing great things. I have a feeling he can make that transition."
Behind the scenes, the Trump campaign is trying to broaden support on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, senior Trump adviser Paul Manafort continued the latest in a round of weekly outreach meetings, sitting down with roughly 16 House Republicans just steps from the Capitol. Afterward, Rep. Mike Kelly, who voted for Trump in Pennsylvania's primary on Tuesday, said he has been hearing more favorable reviews of the businessman in recent days.
"I think on the floor, there's a lot stronger support for Donald Trump then people possibly imagine," Kelly said.
While many conservatives aren't ready to publicly endorse Trump, some privately admit that they don't want to criticize him and antagonize his supporters, whom they will need to turn out in November to retain control of Congress.
Rep. Raul Labrador, an Idaho Republican who has endorsed Cruz, told reporters Wednesday that he's sympathetic to the concerns about Washington voiced by Trump backers.
"This is a way to give Congress and the Republican Party the middle finger," Labrador, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said of voting for Trump.
The comments reflect the hardening reality among Republicans on Capitol Hill that despite how unnerved many are about Trump, they realize they must recognize the will of GOP voters and get behind the businessman -- or risk seeing Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, as the next president. Moreover, many Republicans frankly fear that a messy nominating convention could be far worse than choosing Trump as their nominee.
And also, a number of Senate Republicans simply refuse to support Cruz because they don't think he has much of a chance to win the nomination and are irked at the way he's treated his colleagues.
With Trump as their likely nominee, Rep. Thomas Massie, a libertarian Kentucky Republican, said many Republicans will need "counseling."
"These folks should start enrolling today," Massie said.
