Ryan never expected Trump to lock up the nomination so quickly. Ryan's orbit was preparing for a contested convention in Cleveland...But after repeating the standard line for months that he would support the party's nominee, (Ryan) could not bring himself to do so... Trump responded to Ryan... "I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan's agenda. Perhaps in the future, we can work together and come to an agreement about what is best for the American people,"..."They have been treated so badly for so long that it is about time for politicians to put them first!" #TrumpStrong #Trump2016#AmericaFirst
Trump Spokeswoman: Ryan Isn’t Fit to Be Speaker If He Won't Support Trump - Breitbart
Trump Spokeswoman: Ryan Isn’t Fit to Be Speaker If He Won't Support Trump
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[h=1]Romney met privately with Kristol to discuss third-party candidate[/h] CNN 18 hours ago
Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney met privately with leading conservative columnist William Kristol this week to discuss how best to get an independent candidate into the presidential race. The meeting on Thursday comes as anti-Donald Trump conservatives cling to hope that a viable third-party candidate could offer an alternative to the billionaire businessman and the likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, told CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel that he's working to get a strong independent candidate and wanted Romney's thoughts on who it might be, how it could be done and whether Romney would help -- to which Romney agreed. Kristol then suggested ... that Romney should consider whether he "might be the candidate" -- although Kristol qualified the remark by saying he's not "actively working to get him to run."A message left with a spokeswoman for Romney was not immediately returned. The meeting was first reported by The Washington Post Friday night.
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Donald Trump's social media director Dan Scavino sent out this tweet today, reminding voters that Romney had once pledged to support the GOP nominee, though had said he didn't believe it would be Donald Trump
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Dan Scavino, Donald Trump's social media director, mocked Mitt Romney and said 'thank you for your support,' as the former GOP nominee has been anything bu supportive toward Trump's presidential bid
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You can fire me: Speaker Paul Ryan says he's willing to hand over GOP Convention gavel if The Donald blackballs him – as two sides continue stand-off
PUBLISHED: 20:16, 9 May 2016 | UPDATED: 21:35, 9 May 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan won't get in Donald Trump's way if Trump wants to fire him as the formal chair of the Republican convention, the powerful lawmaker said Monday.
'He's the nominee. I'll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention,' Ryan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel when asked about Trump's suggestion he might get rid of Ryan as formal chair of the convention if the Wisconsin Republican decides not to endorse Trump.
Trump came to the verge of threatening to dump Ryan from his convention post when he got asked about it on NBC's 'Meet the Press' Sunday – following Ryan's explosive statement last week that he's 'not ready' to back Trump.
'I don't want to mention now. I'll see after,' Trump said Sunday. 'I will give you a very solid answer, if that happens, about one minute after that happens. Okay?' Trump told the program. 'But there's no reason to give it right now, but I'll be very quick with the answer. Let's see what happens.'
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- Powerful Republican says he'll 'do whatever' Trump wants at the convention
- Ryan has said he's 'not ready' to endorse Trump
- 'I never said never,' Ryan explained Monday in softened remarks
- Trump seeking to 'unify' GOP as top party leaders defect, and says he'll say whether Ryan gets gavel 'one minute' after he learns of endorsement plans
- Trump and Ryan to hold high-stakes meeting Thursday amid GOP schism over Trump
PUBLISHED: 20:16, 9 May 2016 | UPDATED: 21:35, 9 May 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan won't get in Donald Trump's way if Trump wants to fire him as the formal chair of the Republican convention, the powerful lawmaker said Monday.
'He's the nominee. I'll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention,' Ryan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel when asked about Trump's suggestion he might get rid of Ryan as formal chair of the convention if the Wisconsin Republican decides not to endorse Trump.
Trump came to the verge of threatening to dump Ryan from his convention post when he got asked about it on NBC's 'Meet the Press' Sunday – following Ryan's explosive statement last week that he's 'not ready' to back Trump.
'I don't want to mention now. I'll see after,' Trump said Sunday. 'I will give you a very solid answer, if that happens, about one minute after that happens. Okay?' Trump told the program. 'But there's no reason to give it right now, but I'll be very quick with the answer. Let's see what happens.'
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[h=1]Azealia Banks endorses Trump as she says Hillary Clinton 'talks to black people as if we're children or pets'[/h]
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Azealia Banks felt that Hillary Clinton (pictured) was too establishment for her taste and even went as far to say that the former secretary of state 'talks to black people as if we're children or pets'
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- Rapper Azealia Banks took to Twitter this weekend to announce that she was supporting Trump
- She said that Bernie Sanders 'didn't have the clout' and that Hillary Clinton was too establishment
- 'I can't stand herrrrrrr,' the rapper wrote about the former secretary of state and likely Democratic nominee
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Azealia Banks felt that Hillary Clinton (pictured) was too establishment for her taste and even went as far to say that the former secretary of state 'talks to black people as if we're children or pets'
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[h=1]Donald Trump is a visionary with talents our country needs[/h]By Jason Dov GreenblattApril 18, 2016 11:00am
(JTA invited supporters of the five leading Republican and Democratic contenders for their parties’ presidential nomination to submit opinion pieces in support of their candidate. Other responses can be found here.)
(JTA) — I am executive vice president and chief legal officer of The Trump Organization. I have been working with Donald Trump for over 19 years. I am an observant, committed Jew.
What comes to my mind when I think of Donald Trump?
Inspiration. He inspires people of all kinds to work hard and do their best. He inspires people to dream and fosters an environment where people can advance their dreams. He will not take no for an answer, and he crafts creative solutions to problems.
Loyalty. Many of his employees have worked for him for 20 to 30 years or more. Trump values each of his employees. In turn, we believe in him, in his vision and in his ability to achieve his goals. He has created an atmosphere of family within the organization. He promotes people from within to allow them to succeed further, and when people have difficulties, he stands by them.
Achievement. He genuinely wants people to achieve their dreams, and he will lead the country in a way that encourages success. Over the course of many years, I have seen him assist others to achieve personal and career success. His desire to create jobs and opportunity stems from a lifelong passion.
Tenacity. I have seen him put together, negotiate and implement complex transactions that others thought could never get done.
Respect. He respects people for who they are.
Success. He has a unique combination of business savvy and global vision that has enabled him to achieve tremendous success. That is what our country needs.
READ: No experience necessary: Meet the Orthodox lawyer advising Trump on Israel
Each week I navigate the complex intersection of family, religion, community and career, each of which is extremely important to me. The most obvious tension of being a Sabbath observer and having a job with significant responsibility is the simple fact that each week, I am disconnected from work for Shabbat and typically several days at a time during certain months as a result of Jewish holidays. In all instances, Donald Trump has always been extraordinarily respectful of my religious beliefs and requirements. Because of him, my career has never been at odds with my other priorities of family, religion and community. Donald Trump allows me to live up to the values and goals that my wife and I have established for ourselves and our family.
Like so many of you, I attended the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., in late March. To me, Trump’s speech stood out more than the others for its conviction. He recognizes what Israel stands for, and why it is so important to the United States and to the world. He recognizes that the United States, a country that my wife and I are blessed to live in and raise our children, has an unbreakable friendship with Israel.
Donald Trump will work tirelessly to stem the flow of weapons and funds from Iran to its puppet states and terror organizations, and to stop payments made by Iran and others to terrorists and their families. Trump recognizes that those terror networks are problematic not just to Israel but also to the United States, and he will strive to eradicate Iran’s global terror network.
READ: When it comes to Jewish ties, no GOP candidate trumps Trump
Donald Trump is deeply passionate about bringing peace to Israel. He recognizes it is one of our time’s most difficult challenges, but believes the time has come finally to achieve this goal. With his skills, talent and perseverance, and with the changing times — including Israel’s formal and informal relationships with many of its Arab neighbors – Trump has the ability and the environment to finally make it happen.
Jason Dov Greenblatt (Courtesy of Greenblatt)
I have been by Donald Trump’s side on many complex, thorny negotiations over the years. If anyone has the potential to help facilitate and shepherd one of the most complicated and emotional negotiations such as this one, it is Trump.
He also recognizes that one-sided initiatives that the United Nations or others may attempt to impose on Israel and the Palestinian Authority will do nothing to achieve peace. He believes that both sides must come to the table in order to realize a lasting, just peace – one that allows the citizens of Israel to live in safety and provides for mutual recognition, including the recognition by the Palestinian Authority that Israel is, and always will be, a Jewish state.
With Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States can play a vital role as a facilitator in this daunting process.
Trump will treat Israel with the great respect it deserves. He recognizes that Israel is America’s most reliable ally and is a country built on the same values and principles as the United States. He will push the Palestinian Authority and countries that preach hate to stop indoctrinating their children to hate Israel and Jews. That is the only way to break this vicious cycle of hate and terror.
So why Donald Trump? He is a visionary who would make a great leader. Our country needs a talent like his for the benefit of us all. I am a proud citizen of this special country, a country that in the 1940s and 1950s gave refuge to my grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, who all benefited tremendously by being able to raise the next generation in freedom.
I believe Donald Trump can do an outstanding job for all of us. Our country can prosper, be secure and be unified. As a proud Jew who cares deeply for my religion and Israel, I know that my family and I will be in great hands.
(Jason Dov Greenblatt is executive vice president and chief legal officer of The Trump Organization.)
(JTA invited supporters of the five leading Republican and Democratic contenders for their parties’ presidential nomination to submit opinion pieces in support of their candidate. Other responses can be found here.)
(JTA) — I am executive vice president and chief legal officer of The Trump Organization. I have been working with Donald Trump for over 19 years. I am an observant, committed Jew.
What comes to my mind when I think of Donald Trump?
Inspiration. He inspires people of all kinds to work hard and do their best. He inspires people to dream and fosters an environment where people can advance their dreams. He will not take no for an answer, and he crafts creative solutions to problems.
Loyalty. Many of his employees have worked for him for 20 to 30 years or more. Trump values each of his employees. In turn, we believe in him, in his vision and in his ability to achieve his goals. He has created an atmosphere of family within the organization. He promotes people from within to allow them to succeed further, and when people have difficulties, he stands by them.
Achievement. He genuinely wants people to achieve their dreams, and he will lead the country in a way that encourages success. Over the course of many years, I have seen him assist others to achieve personal and career success. His desire to create jobs and opportunity stems from a lifelong passion.
Tenacity. I have seen him put together, negotiate and implement complex transactions that others thought could never get done.
Respect. He respects people for who they are.
Success. He has a unique combination of business savvy and global vision that has enabled him to achieve tremendous success. That is what our country needs.
READ: No experience necessary: Meet the Orthodox lawyer advising Trump on Israel
Each week I navigate the complex intersection of family, religion, community and career, each of which is extremely important to me. The most obvious tension of being a Sabbath observer and having a job with significant responsibility is the simple fact that each week, I am disconnected from work for Shabbat and typically several days at a time during certain months as a result of Jewish holidays. In all instances, Donald Trump has always been extraordinarily respectful of my religious beliefs and requirements. Because of him, my career has never been at odds with my other priorities of family, religion and community. Donald Trump allows me to live up to the values and goals that my wife and I have established for ourselves and our family.
Like so many of you, I attended the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., in late March. To me, Trump’s speech stood out more than the others for its conviction. He recognizes what Israel stands for, and why it is so important to the United States and to the world. He recognizes that the United States, a country that my wife and I are blessed to live in and raise our children, has an unbreakable friendship with Israel.
Donald Trump will work tirelessly to stem the flow of weapons and funds from Iran to its puppet states and terror organizations, and to stop payments made by Iran and others to terrorists and their families. Trump recognizes that those terror networks are problematic not just to Israel but also to the United States, and he will strive to eradicate Iran’s global terror network.
READ: When it comes to Jewish ties, no GOP candidate trumps Trump
Donald Trump is deeply passionate about bringing peace to Israel. He recognizes it is one of our time’s most difficult challenges, but believes the time has come finally to achieve this goal. With his skills, talent and perseverance, and with the changing times — including Israel’s formal and informal relationships with many of its Arab neighbors – Trump has the ability and the environment to finally make it happen.
I have been by Donald Trump’s side on many complex, thorny negotiations over the years. If anyone has the potential to help facilitate and shepherd one of the most complicated and emotional negotiations such as this one, it is Trump.
He also recognizes that one-sided initiatives that the United Nations or others may attempt to impose on Israel and the Palestinian Authority will do nothing to achieve peace. He believes that both sides must come to the table in order to realize a lasting, just peace – one that allows the citizens of Israel to live in safety and provides for mutual recognition, including the recognition by the Palestinian Authority that Israel is, and always will be, a Jewish state.
With Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States can play a vital role as a facilitator in this daunting process.
Trump will treat Israel with the great respect it deserves. He recognizes that Israel is America’s most reliable ally and is a country built on the same values and principles as the United States. He will push the Palestinian Authority and countries that preach hate to stop indoctrinating their children to hate Israel and Jews. That is the only way to break this vicious cycle of hate and terror.
So why Donald Trump? He is a visionary who would make a great leader. Our country needs a talent like his for the benefit of us all. I am a proud citizen of this special country, a country that in the 1940s and 1950s gave refuge to my grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, who all benefited tremendously by being able to raise the next generation in freedom.
I believe Donald Trump can do an outstanding job for all of us. Our country can prosper, be secure and be unified. As a proud Jew who cares deeply for my religion and Israel, I know that my family and I will be in great hands.
(Jason Dov Greenblatt is executive vice president and chief legal officer of The Trump Organization.)
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[h=6]- MAY 10, 2016 -[/h][h=1]THE WOMEN WHO LIKE DONALD TRUMP[/h]The New York Times
Women don’t like Donald J. Trump. Or at least that’s what hacks in the news media like myself say, right? But don’t take it from me. Take it from female voters themselves. A CNN/ORC poll conducted in March found that 73 percent of women from both parties say they don’t like him, an increase from 59 percent in December. Among Republican women, this number is much lower but still significant: 39 percent said they had a negative view of him.
It’s the same story: According to Gallup women’s distaste for Mr. Trump has crept up from 58 percent last July to 70 percent in April. And a Washington Post-ABC News poll from April showed that a three-quarters of female respondents had a somewhat or strongly unfavorable view of Mr. Trump. From implying that Carly Fiorina was too ugly to vote for to retweeting an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz, there’s plenty in the Trump campaign so far to cause women to say, “No, thanks.”
Then there is that other 25 percent.
In conversations, many women who support Mr. Trump expressed similar defenses of their preferred candidate. He’s not sexist, he’s just not politically correct. He’s not a career politician, so he doesn’t stick his finger in the wind before he says something. He believes in treating women as tough as he treats men. The news media has distorted his message with cherry-picked sound bites. If he were sexist, would he have promoted so many female executives, including his daughter, within his own company?
Perhaps in response to the claims of misogyny that have been leveled against him, the Trump campaign has deployed a legion of women to serve as his surrogates on cable TV. Scottie Nell Hughes, a Tea Party activist and conservative blogger from Nashville, is one of the most visible. (She seems to be relishing this moment in American politics; her cellphone’s ringback tone is the theme song from “House of Cards”). She pointed to the Miss Universe pageant as evidence of Mr. Trump’s equal treatment of women. “It wasn’t just because he wanted to see women in bathing suits,” she said. “It was because he actually wanted to give these women opportunities.”
Aside from his female surrogates, the most visible group of women who support Donald Trump are using social media to spread the good news about him, especially on YouTube and Twitter. Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, two sisters who live in North Carolina, have gained a degree of Internet fame with their pro-Trump YouTube videos. The sisters, who go by their childhood nicknames Diamond and Silk, say they switched their party registration from Democratic to Republican last year to vote for Mr. Trump in the March primary. They recently started a website called Women United 4 Trump, which aims to “bring many women of different ethnicities and demographics together” to support the Republican front-runner.
“He treats everybody equally — if women want equal rights, well, you’re on an equal playing field,” Ms. Hardaway told me. “I do not believe that he’s sexist. He’s not racist. All those provocative words that the media has been trying to use on him for the past nine months, I believe that they’re lies.”
Sandy Staats, 56, manages the West Virginia for Donald Trump Facebook group — her state votes in its primary on Tuesday — and is running to be a delegate at the Republican National Convention in July. “I’m a woman and I am 100 percent Trump, always have been,” she said. “I love that he is not a usual politician.”
She added: “He employs more women than men in his businesses, and minorities adore him. The only exception is those who break our laws and come to our country illegally.”
On Twitter, a group of male and female Trump supporters known as the #TrumpTrain emit a steady stream of pro-Trump tweets every day, often accompanied by the hashtag #MAGA — Make America Great Again — and sometimes a train emoji.
Linda Suhler, a retired molecular biologist who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., is one of Mr. Trump’s female Internet superfans. She has four grandchildren and more than 219,000 Twitter followers. She said she started her path of becoming a conservative Twitter activist after President Obama was re-elected in 2012.
Like many of the female Trump supporters I spoke to, Ms. Suhler supported Senator Ted Cruz before switching allegiances. She says she has formed real-life friendships with fellow female Trump supporters she met online.
Amy Mek, who has more than 85,000 Twitter followers, is one of the women Ms. Suhler has gotten to know through their shared support of Mr. Trump.
“My belief has been that women’s rights is about treating men and women equally,” Ms. Mek said. “Trump swings at men and women equally hard, but somehow if a woman is a Trump target, he is a misogynist.” She added: “I believe in judging actions, not words. The ratio of men to women executives in the Trump organization should put the Trump anti-women notion to rest.”
According to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, Trump-owned businesses employ 57 percent men and 43 percent women over all. Mr. Cohen has maintained that the Trump Organization employs more women than men in executive positions, and that they “are compensated at equal and in many cases higher pay rates” than men. He has declined to provide evidence for these claims to news outlets.
Among the women who have worked for the Trump organization, most have positive things to say about their boss, while admitting some of his personal faults. Louise Sunshine, who worked for Mr. Trump’s real estate business, said he kept a “fat picture” of her in a drawer, as a “reminder that I wasn’t perfect,” but said she appreciated Mr. Trump’s tough management style. “He gave me the ropes, and I could either hang myself or prove myself,” she told The Washington Post.
More recently, a Trump organization employee named Lynne Patton posted a video to YouTube defending Mr. Trump and his family as “one of the most generous, compassionate, and philanthropic families I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing.” The video has more than 2.6 million views.
“As a black female executive at the Trump organization, I can no longer remain silent about the repeated and reprehensible attempts to align my boss and his family with racist, hate-mongering groups, campaigns and messaging,” Ms. Patton says in the video.
Mr. Trump has been criticized for telling a female contestant on his reality TV show, “The Apprentice,” “Must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.” But the show’s most famous female contestant, Omarosa Manigault, is one of Mr. Trump’s biggest defenders. Ms. Manigault worked in the White House under President Bill Clinton before her stint on “The Apprentice.” She now works as vice chairwoman of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.
“There are some sensitivity issues that should be taken into account,” she told me, but Mr. Trump’s statements about women are just evidence of his radical egalitarianism. “He’s not going to say: ‘Oh, she’s a woman. Let me not hit her as hard. Let me put on kid gloves,’ ” she said. “He believes that each opponent, each detractor should be dealt with equally.”
Mr. Trump has won the grudging support of female Republican officeholders. Senators Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine and Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina have all reluctantly said they would support Mr. Trump — though Ms. Ayotte’s office added that she wasn’t “endorsing” him.
We have yet to see how many #NeverTrump Republicans will become #EventuallyTrump in November, when faced with the choice of voting for him or Hillary Clinton. But Liz Mair, a Republican consultant who works for the anti-Trump “super PAC” Make America Awesome, said the reason women don’t like Mr. Trump has more to do with his personality than his policies — and that personality isn’t likely to change anytime soon.
“Donald Trump is basically the most high-profile example that I think we all have of the sort of overgrown frat boy who’s extremely egotistical and narcissistic and thinks he’s all that,” Ms. Mair said.
Some of his fans might like that, though. The Trump supporter Ms. Hughes put a softer spin on it. “He’s kind of seen like the bully to the bully,” she said.
Women don’t like Donald J. Trump. Or at least that’s what hacks in the news media like myself say, right? But don’t take it from me. Take it from female voters themselves. A CNN/ORC poll conducted in March found that 73 percent of women from both parties say they don’t like him, an increase from 59 percent in December. Among Republican women, this number is much lower but still significant: 39 percent said they had a negative view of him.
It’s the same story: According to Gallup women’s distaste for Mr. Trump has crept up from 58 percent last July to 70 percent in April. And a Washington Post-ABC News poll from April showed that a three-quarters of female respondents had a somewhat or strongly unfavorable view of Mr. Trump. From implying that Carly Fiorina was too ugly to vote for to retweeting an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz, there’s plenty in the Trump campaign so far to cause women to say, “No, thanks.”
Then there is that other 25 percent.
In conversations, many women who support Mr. Trump expressed similar defenses of their preferred candidate. He’s not sexist, he’s just not politically correct. He’s not a career politician, so he doesn’t stick his finger in the wind before he says something. He believes in treating women as tough as he treats men. The news media has distorted his message with cherry-picked sound bites. If he were sexist, would he have promoted so many female executives, including his daughter, within his own company?
Perhaps in response to the claims of misogyny that have been leveled against him, the Trump campaign has deployed a legion of women to serve as his surrogates on cable TV. Scottie Nell Hughes, a Tea Party activist and conservative blogger from Nashville, is one of the most visible. (She seems to be relishing this moment in American politics; her cellphone’s ringback tone is the theme song from “House of Cards”). She pointed to the Miss Universe pageant as evidence of Mr. Trump’s equal treatment of women. “It wasn’t just because he wanted to see women in bathing suits,” she said. “It was because he actually wanted to give these women opportunities.”
Aside from his female surrogates, the most visible group of women who support Donald Trump are using social media to spread the good news about him, especially on YouTube and Twitter. Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, two sisters who live in North Carolina, have gained a degree of Internet fame with their pro-Trump YouTube videos. The sisters, who go by their childhood nicknames Diamond and Silk, say they switched their party registration from Democratic to Republican last year to vote for Mr. Trump in the March primary. They recently started a website called Women United 4 Trump, which aims to “bring many women of different ethnicities and demographics together” to support the Republican front-runner.
“He treats everybody equally — if women want equal rights, well, you’re on an equal playing field,” Ms. Hardaway told me. “I do not believe that he’s sexist. He’s not racist. All those provocative words that the media has been trying to use on him for the past nine months, I believe that they’re lies.”
Sandy Staats, 56, manages the West Virginia for Donald Trump Facebook group — her state votes in its primary on Tuesday — and is running to be a delegate at the Republican National Convention in July. “I’m a woman and I am 100 percent Trump, always have been,” she said. “I love that he is not a usual politician.”
She added: “He employs more women than men in his businesses, and minorities adore him. The only exception is those who break our laws and come to our country illegally.”
On Twitter, a group of male and female Trump supporters known as the #TrumpTrain emit a steady stream of pro-Trump tweets every day, often accompanied by the hashtag #MAGA — Make America Great Again — and sometimes a train emoji.
Linda Suhler, a retired molecular biologist who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., is one of Mr. Trump’s female Internet superfans. She has four grandchildren and more than 219,000 Twitter followers. She said she started her path of becoming a conservative Twitter activist after President Obama was re-elected in 2012.
Like many of the female Trump supporters I spoke to, Ms. Suhler supported Senator Ted Cruz before switching allegiances. She says she has formed real-life friendships with fellow female Trump supporters she met online.
Amy Mek, who has more than 85,000 Twitter followers, is one of the women Ms. Suhler has gotten to know through their shared support of Mr. Trump.
“My belief has been that women’s rights is about treating men and women equally,” Ms. Mek said. “Trump swings at men and women equally hard, but somehow if a woman is a Trump target, he is a misogynist.” She added: “I believe in judging actions, not words. The ratio of men to women executives in the Trump organization should put the Trump anti-women notion to rest.”
According to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, Trump-owned businesses employ 57 percent men and 43 percent women over all. Mr. Cohen has maintained that the Trump Organization employs more women than men in executive positions, and that they “are compensated at equal and in many cases higher pay rates” than men. He has declined to provide evidence for these claims to news outlets.
Among the women who have worked for the Trump organization, most have positive things to say about their boss, while admitting some of his personal faults. Louise Sunshine, who worked for Mr. Trump’s real estate business, said he kept a “fat picture” of her in a drawer, as a “reminder that I wasn’t perfect,” but said she appreciated Mr. Trump’s tough management style. “He gave me the ropes, and I could either hang myself or prove myself,” she told The Washington Post.
More recently, a Trump organization employee named Lynne Patton posted a video to YouTube defending Mr. Trump and his family as “one of the most generous, compassionate, and philanthropic families I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing.” The video has more than 2.6 million views.
“As a black female executive at the Trump organization, I can no longer remain silent about the repeated and reprehensible attempts to align my boss and his family with racist, hate-mongering groups, campaigns and messaging,” Ms. Patton says in the video.
Mr. Trump has been criticized for telling a female contestant on his reality TV show, “The Apprentice,” “Must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.” But the show’s most famous female contestant, Omarosa Manigault, is one of Mr. Trump’s biggest defenders. Ms. Manigault worked in the White House under President Bill Clinton before her stint on “The Apprentice.” She now works as vice chairwoman of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.
“There are some sensitivity issues that should be taken into account,” she told me, but Mr. Trump’s statements about women are just evidence of his radical egalitarianism. “He’s not going to say: ‘Oh, she’s a woman. Let me not hit her as hard. Let me put on kid gloves,’ ” she said. “He believes that each opponent, each detractor should be dealt with equally.”
Mr. Trump has won the grudging support of female Republican officeholders. Senators Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine and Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina have all reluctantly said they would support Mr. Trump — though Ms. Ayotte’s office added that she wasn’t “endorsing” him.
We have yet to see how many #NeverTrump Republicans will become #EventuallyTrump in November, when faced with the choice of voting for him or Hillary Clinton. But Liz Mair, a Republican consultant who works for the anti-Trump “super PAC” Make America Awesome, said the reason women don’t like Mr. Trump has more to do with his personality than his policies — and that personality isn’t likely to change anytime soon.
“Donald Trump is basically the most high-profile example that I think we all have of the sort of overgrown frat boy who’s extremely egotistical and narcissistic and thinks he’s all that,” Ms. Mair said.
Some of his fans might like that, though. The Trump supporter Ms. Hughes put a softer spin on it. “He’s kind of seen like the bully to the bully,” she said.
[h=6]- MAY 10, 2016 -[/h][h=1]POLL: CLINTON, TRUMP RUN TIGHT RACES IN KEY SWING STATES[/h]CNN
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the likely general election presidential nominees, are running neck-and-neck in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, results driven by wide gender and racial gaps among voters, a new general election poll shows.
Clinton edges Trump in Florida and Pennsylvania, while Trump leads in Ohio, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.
In both Florida and Pennsylvania the poll shows Clinton narrowly over Trump, 43% to 42%. In Ohio, Trump leads Clinton 43% to 39%.
"At this juncture, Trump is doing better in Pennsylvania than the GOP nominees in 2008 and 2012. And the two candidates are about where their party predecessors were at this point in Ohio and Florida," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, in a memo accompanying the poll results.
The poll also tested general election matchups between Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders, who currently trails Clinton, for their party's nomination. Sanders fares slightly better than Clinton in all three states, even topping Trump in Ohio, 43%-41%.
For Clinton and Trump, wide gaps in support among women and men and minorities drive the close contests.
In all three swing states, Clinton leads Trump among women by nine or more points, while Trump wins men by double-digits. And while white voters consistently favor Trump, non-white voters back Clinton by huge margins.
"The gender gap is massive and currently benefits Trump," Brown said. "In Pennsylvania, Clinton's 19-point lead among women matches Trump's 21-point margin among men. In Ohio, she is up 7 points among women but down 15 points with men. In Florida she is up 13 points among women but down 13 points among men."
Both Clinton and Trump are plagued by high unfavorability ratings among voters in each state.
Majorities of voters in the states say Trump would do a better job handling the economy, and in Florida and Ohio, voters said he would be the best dealing with terrorism.
Clinton, voters in all three states said, is more intelligent and has higher moral standards than Trump. Majorities in all three states also say the former secretary of state has the temperament to handle an international crisis.
The poll surveyed 1,051 Florida voters, 1,042 Ohio voters, and 1,077 Pennsylvania voters between April 27-May 8th and each state's polling has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the likely general election presidential nominees, are running neck-and-neck in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, results driven by wide gender and racial gaps among voters, a new general election poll shows.
Clinton edges Trump in Florida and Pennsylvania, while Trump leads in Ohio, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.
In both Florida and Pennsylvania the poll shows Clinton narrowly over Trump, 43% to 42%. In Ohio, Trump leads Clinton 43% to 39%.
"At this juncture, Trump is doing better in Pennsylvania than the GOP nominees in 2008 and 2012. And the two candidates are about where their party predecessors were at this point in Ohio and Florida," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, in a memo accompanying the poll results.
The poll also tested general election matchups between Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders, who currently trails Clinton, for their party's nomination. Sanders fares slightly better than Clinton in all three states, even topping Trump in Ohio, 43%-41%.
For Clinton and Trump, wide gaps in support among women and men and minorities drive the close contests.
In all three swing states, Clinton leads Trump among women by nine or more points, while Trump wins men by double-digits. And while white voters consistently favor Trump, non-white voters back Clinton by huge margins.
"The gender gap is massive and currently benefits Trump," Brown said. "In Pennsylvania, Clinton's 19-point lead among women matches Trump's 21-point margin among men. In Ohio, she is up 7 points among women but down 15 points with men. In Florida she is up 13 points among women but down 13 points among men."
Both Clinton and Trump are plagued by high unfavorability ratings among voters in each state.
Majorities of voters in the states say Trump would do a better job handling the economy, and in Florida and Ohio, voters said he would be the best dealing with terrorism.
Clinton, voters in all three states said, is more intelligent and has higher moral standards than Trump. Majorities in all three states also say the former secretary of state has the temperament to handle an international crisis.
The poll surveyed 1,051 Florida voters, 1,042 Ohio voters, and 1,077 Pennsylvania voters between April 27-May 8th and each state's polling has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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