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Trump Has Become More Powerful Than Obama Overnight
The Mexican Government has offered to negotiate with Trump months before Trump becomes the most powerful man on Earth.
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Trump Has Become More Powerful Than Obama Overnight
The Mexican Government has offered to negotiate with Trump months before Trump becomes the most powerful man on Earth.
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The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson told Donald J. Trump in a private meeting last week that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of Mr. Adelson’s commitment.
The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson told Donald J. Trump in a private meeting last week that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of Mr. Adelson’s commitment.
Donald J. Trump
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Thank you to the 44% of Bernie Sanders supporters- who would support me-- over Crooked Hillary in November.
Exit polls: Nearly half of W.Va. Sanders backers would vote Trump
Only 23 percent of those voting for Sanders in West Virginia would be willing to back Clinton.
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Thank you to the 44% of Bernie Sanders supporters- who would support me-- over Crooked Hillary in November.
Exit polls: Nearly half of W.Va. Sanders backers would vote Trump
Only 23 percent of those voting for Sanders in West Virginia would be willing to back Clinton.
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Many Republican senators who once expressed misgivings about Trump have set those feelings aside, as a rallying cry goes up to join forces in an attempt to defeat the likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
In February, majority whip John Cornyn of Texas warned that Trump could be “an albatross around the down-ballot races”. On Thursday, Cornyn tweeted a picture of himself standing next to Trump, who was poking a thumbs up.
“Good, constructive meeting with senate leadership,” wrote Cornyn.
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The rally around Trump goes beyond elected officials and into the party apparatus, from other major donors to red state celebrities, such as Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson.
It has also reached the National Republican Congressional Committee. Its chairman, Oregon representative Greg Walden, declared of Trump last December: “This is not what we’re about as a party, and this is not what we’re about as a country, and we cannot yield to this.”
On Thursday, Walden announced that he would be supporting Trump after all.
“While I may disagree with the rhetoric Mr Trump uses and some policy positions, he is the better option than Hillary Clinton in the White House,” Walden said in a statement.
In February, Trump delivered a Sopranos-esque warning to the Ricketts family, billionaire Republican donors who had given millions to defeat Trump’s candidacy. “They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!” Trump tweeted.
Not a trace of that tension was visible last week, when family scion Pete Ricketts, the governor of Nebraska, appeared onstage with the candidate and conferred his endorsement.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts focuses on Hillary Clinton in endorsing Donald Trump
OMAHA, Neb. -- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) took the stage at Donald Trump's rally in an airplane hangar on Friday afternoon and explained why he was endorsing the presumptive Republican nominee -- even though his parents have collectively given $5.5 million to an anti-Trump super PAC.
"Folks, I went through a contested primary," said Ricketts, who took office in 2015. "And then we all came together to support me as the nominee for the Republican Party here in Nebraska. And it is time now that we as Republicans come together to support our nominee for president."
In remarks that lasted just a few minutes, Ricketts managed to mention Trump's name just twice. And instead of listing off qualities that he liked about Trump, Ricketts attacked the Obama administration and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, telling the crowd that she must be defeated.
"You're here, I'm here, we're all here because we know we need to take back our country," Ricketts said. "And two-thirds of Americans agree with us. And we don't want the next person charting the course of this country to be Hillary Clinton."
Trump warmly accepted the governor's endorsement, and the two posed for photos. This is the routine that many Republicans -- especially those in red states where Trump is popular -- will partake in during the coming weeks, as they're forced to either stand with their party's likely nominee or against him. And unlike in previous years, when such endorsements have often been highly negotiated deals for governors in key states, Trump appears unwilling to budge on much for a fellow Republican's support -- you're either with him or against him. And a number of prominent Republicans have chosen the later, including former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, along with his brother and father.
For many observers who only weeks ago saw a civil war ahead for the Republican party, the swing behind Trump has come quickly.
On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.”
On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted: “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel. And he’s eying them as pliable marks.”
The Day After: Seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel. And he's eying them as pliable marks.
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Pliability on the Trump question has been the rule, not the exception. In February, after Trump attacked former president George W Bush, pointing out that the 9/11 attacks happened on his watch and suggesting that Bush wanted a war with Iraq and lied to make one, New York representative Peter King saidTrump was “not fit to be president – morally or intellectually”.
On Thursday, King endorsed Trump.
“I stand by all those things I said,” King told Newsday. “I said all along I would support the nominee of the party. I do endorse him and I’ll vote for him, but I don’t intend to be campaigning for him.”
On Thursday, King endorsed Trump.
“I stand by all those things I said,” King told Newsday. “I said all along I would support the nominee of the party. I do endorse him and I’ll vote for him, but I don’t intend to be campaigning for him.”
Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who has been one of Trump’s sharpest critics this election cycle – “Donald is like being shot in the head,” he said in March – stopped short on Thursday of saying that he was supporting the nominee. But the senator found his first nice words to say about Trump, saying the two held a “cordial, pleasant phone conversation” on Wednesday.
“I congratulated him on winning the Republican nomination for president,” Graham said, in a statement. “I know Mr Trump is reaching out to many people, throughout the party and the country, to solicit their advice and opinions.
“I believe this is a wise move on his part.”
“I congratulated him on winning the Republican nomination for president,” Graham said, in a statement. “I know Mr Trump is reaching out to many people, throughout the party and the country, to solicit their advice and opinions.
“I believe this is a wise move on his part.”
[h=1]How Donald Trump convinced the Republican party to revolve around him[/h]
Seemingly overnight and without much effort, majority of GOP congressmen endorse or have come to accept the presumptive nominee as the face of the party
Tom McCarthy
@TeeMcSee
Saturday 14 May 2016 13.09 BST
Donald Trump was every bit the buyer ready to walk off the lot if he couldn’t be shown a bargain.
“Does it have to be unified?” he said last Sunday, musing aloud about the need for the Republican party to come together behind his candidacy for president. “I’m very different than everybody else, perhaps, that’s ever run for office. I actually don’t think so.”
A series of meetings between Trump and congressional leaders in Washington on Thursday turned out to be a victory lap for the candidate. His success with House speaker Paul Ryan, previously billed as his most powerful adversary, was typical. Ryan went from being “just not ready” to back Trump one week to “totally committed to working together” the next.
Or, in Trump’s words on Twitter on Thursday afternoon: “Great day in DC with @SpeakerRyan and Republican leadership. Things working out really well!”
The Republican coalescence around Trump is indeed working out really well, for the candidate at least. By the Guardian’s latest count, 45 of 54 Republican senators either support Trump wholeheartedly or have pledged to support the nominee. Only three senators have said they will not back Trump.
Senator Susan Collins, a moderate from Maine, is one of six senators in a third category: wait-and-see. In a statement to the Guardian on Friday, she said she expects to support the Republican nominee, “but I do want to see what Donald Trump does from here on out”, including whether he will dispense with “gratuitous personal insults” and “clearly outline for us what his vision of America is beyond a slogan”.
Collins said she would not make a decision until the national convention in July.
In the House of Representatives, the break towards Trump has not been quite so clean. Some members clung to “#NeverTrump” sympathies even after his run on the Hill. Republican governors presiding over states where Trump’s name is mud with moderates, such as Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, or with important constituencies, such as Susana Martinez of New Mexico, likewise have withheld their support.
A significant opposition remains among the party’s passé ruling class and current donor class. Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush. The 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, said on Wednesday that Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns was “disqualifying”. Important mega-donors including Paul Singer and the brothers Koch have not visibly moved to back Trump.
But many Republican senators who once expressed misgivings about Trump have set those feelings aside, as a rallying cry goes up to join forces in an attempt to defeat the likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
In February, majority whip John Cornyn of Texas warned that Trump could be “an albatross around the down-ballot races”. On Thursday, Cornyn tweeted a picture of himself standing next to Trump, who was poking a thumbs up.
“Good, constructive meeting with senate leadership,” wrote Cornyn.
The rally around Trump goes beyond elected officials and into the party apparatus, from other major donors to red state celebrities, such as Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson.
It has also reached the National Republican Congressional Committee. Its chairman, Oregon representative Greg Walden, declared of Trump last December: “This is not what we’re about as a party, and this is not what we’re about as a country, and we cannot yield to this.”
On Thursday, Walden announced that he would be supporting Trump after all.
“While I may disagree with the rhetoric Mr Trump uses and some policy positions, he is the better option than Hillary Clinton in the White House,” Waldensaid in a statement.
In February, Trump delivered a Sopranos-esque warning to the Ricketts family, billionaire Republican donors who had given millions to defeat Trump’s candidacy. “They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!” Trump tweeted.
Not a trace of that tension was visible last week, when family scion Pete Ricketts, the governor of Nebraska, appeared onstage with the candidate and conferred his endorsement.
For many observers who only weeks ago saw a civil war ahead for the Republican party, the swing behind Trump has come quickly.
On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.”
On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted: “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel. And he’s eying them as pliable marks.”
[h=2]‘It’s just going to take a little bit longer’[/h]Timothy Hagle, a University of Iowa political science professor, told the Guardian that in the broader view, however, the party can be seen to have fallen behind the candidate at an “average” pace. He pointed to the last Republican nominating competition, when widespread displeasure with Romney was palpable through the spring.
“There was a concern that Romney was insufficiently conservative on a lot of issues,” he said, “there was still a certain distrust that people even had from four years before, where he stood on abortion, the whole Romneycare thing.
“Some of those arguments and concerns go much deeper this time, so I think on the part of some people, it’s just going to take a little bit longer for them to come around.”
Notably taking his time is Senator Ted Cruz, Trump’s main rival for the nomination until he withdrew last week.
“There’s time for recriminations and, you know, everyone who was responsible for the rise of Donald Trump, they will bear that responsibility going forward,” Cruz told a Texas talkshow host on Thursday. “But there were more than a few players that played a disproportionate role in that rise.”
Some elected officials sound as if they will never come around. Senators Ben Sasse and Dean Heller have said they oppose Trump, nominee or no. Holdouts in the House have been even more vocal, with Illinois representative Bob Dold among them.
“I said last year after Donald Trump disparaged the service of our nation’s POWs – including my uncle – and then used countless offensive remarks against women, Latinos and Muslims, that I will not support his candidacy for president,” Dold told the Guardian in a statement.
But pliability on the Trump question has been the rule, not the exception. In February, after Trump attacked former president George W Bush, pointing out that the 9/11 attacks happened on his watch and suggesting that Bush wanted a war with Iraq and lied to make one, New York representative Peter King saidTrump was “not fit to be president – morally or intellectually”.
On Thursday, King endorsed Trump.
“I stand by all those things I said,” King told Newsday. “I said all along I would support the nominee of the party. I do endorse him and I’ll vote for him, but I don’t intend to be campaigning for him.”
Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who has been one of Trump’s sharpest critics this election cycle – “Donald is like being shot in the head,” he said in March – stopped short on Thursday of saying that he was supporting the nominee. But the senator found his first nice words to say about Trump, saying the two held a “cordial, pleasant phone conversation” on Wednesday.
“I congratulated him on winning the Republican nomination for president,” Graham said, in a statement. “I know Mr Trump is reaching out to many people, throughout the party and the country, to solicit their advice and opinions.
“I believe this is a wise move on his part.”
Was the author of the Art of the Deal bluffing? It does not matter now, because in the last week Trump has gotten what he professed not necessarily to want: substantial party backing for his presidential candidacy.
Seemingly overnight and without much effort, majority of GOP congressmen endorse or have come to accept the presumptive nominee as the face of the party
Tom McCarthy
@TeeMcSee
Saturday 14 May 2016 13.09 BST
Donald Trump was every bit the buyer ready to walk off the lot if he couldn’t be shown a bargain.
“Does it have to be unified?” he said last Sunday, musing aloud about the need for the Republican party to come together behind his candidacy for president. “I’m very different than everybody else, perhaps, that’s ever run for office. I actually don’t think so.”
A series of meetings between Trump and congressional leaders in Washington on Thursday turned out to be a victory lap for the candidate. His success with House speaker Paul Ryan, previously billed as his most powerful adversary, was typical. Ryan went from being “just not ready” to back Trump one week to “totally committed to working together” the next.
Or, in Trump’s words on Twitter on Thursday afternoon: “Great day in DC with @SpeakerRyan and Republican leadership. Things working out really well!”
The Republican coalescence around Trump is indeed working out really well, for the candidate at least. By the Guardian’s latest count, 45 of 54 Republican senators either support Trump wholeheartedly or have pledged to support the nominee. Only three senators have said they will not back Trump.
Senator Susan Collins, a moderate from Maine, is one of six senators in a third category: wait-and-see. In a statement to the Guardian on Friday, she said she expects to support the Republican nominee, “but I do want to see what Donald Trump does from here on out”, including whether he will dispense with “gratuitous personal insults” and “clearly outline for us what his vision of America is beyond a slogan”.
Collins said she would not make a decision until the national convention in July.
In the House of Representatives, the break towards Trump has not been quite so clean. Some members clung to “#NeverTrump” sympathies even after his run on the Hill. Republican governors presiding over states where Trump’s name is mud with moderates, such as Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, or with important constituencies, such as Susana Martinez of New Mexico, likewise have withheld their support.
A significant opposition remains among the party’s passé ruling class and current donor class. Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush. The 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, said on Wednesday that Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns was “disqualifying”. Important mega-donors including Paul Singer and the brothers Koch have not visibly moved to back Trump.
But many Republican senators who once expressed misgivings about Trump have set those feelings aside, as a rallying cry goes up to join forces in an attempt to defeat the likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
In February, majority whip John Cornyn of Texas warned that Trump could be “an albatross around the down-ballot races”. On Thursday, Cornyn tweeted a picture of himself standing next to Trump, who was poking a thumbs up.
“Good, constructive meeting with senate leadership,” wrote Cornyn.
The rally around Trump goes beyond elected officials and into the party apparatus, from other major donors to red state celebrities, such as Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson.
It has also reached the National Republican Congressional Committee. Its chairman, Oregon representative Greg Walden, declared of Trump last December: “This is not what we’re about as a party, and this is not what we’re about as a country, and we cannot yield to this.”
On Thursday, Walden announced that he would be supporting Trump after all.
“While I may disagree with the rhetoric Mr Trump uses and some policy positions, he is the better option than Hillary Clinton in the White House,” Waldensaid in a statement.
In February, Trump delivered a Sopranos-esque warning to the Ricketts family, billionaire Republican donors who had given millions to defeat Trump’s candidacy. “They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!” Trump tweeted.
Not a trace of that tension was visible last week, when family scion Pete Ricketts, the governor of Nebraska, appeared onstage with the candidate and conferred his endorsement.
For many observers who only weeks ago saw a civil war ahead for the Republican party, the swing behind Trump has come quickly.
On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.”
On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted: “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel. And he’s eying them as pliable marks.”
[h=2]‘It’s just going to take a little bit longer’[/h]Timothy Hagle, a University of Iowa political science professor, told the Guardian that in the broader view, however, the party can be seen to have fallen behind the candidate at an “average” pace. He pointed to the last Republican nominating competition, when widespread displeasure with Romney was palpable through the spring.
“There was a concern that Romney was insufficiently conservative on a lot of issues,” he said, “there was still a certain distrust that people even had from four years before, where he stood on abortion, the whole Romneycare thing.
“Some of those arguments and concerns go much deeper this time, so I think on the part of some people, it’s just going to take a little bit longer for them to come around.”
Notably taking his time is Senator Ted Cruz, Trump’s main rival for the nomination until he withdrew last week.
“There’s time for recriminations and, you know, everyone who was responsible for the rise of Donald Trump, they will bear that responsibility going forward,” Cruz told a Texas talkshow host on Thursday. “But there were more than a few players that played a disproportionate role in that rise.”
Some elected officials sound as if they will never come around. Senators Ben Sasse and Dean Heller have said they oppose Trump, nominee or no. Holdouts in the House have been even more vocal, with Illinois representative Bob Dold among them.
“I said last year after Donald Trump disparaged the service of our nation’s POWs – including my uncle – and then used countless offensive remarks against women, Latinos and Muslims, that I will not support his candidacy for president,” Dold told the Guardian in a statement.
But pliability on the Trump question has been the rule, not the exception. In February, after Trump attacked former president George W Bush, pointing out that the 9/11 attacks happened on his watch and suggesting that Bush wanted a war with Iraq and lied to make one, New York representative Peter King saidTrump was “not fit to be president – morally or intellectually”.
On Thursday, King endorsed Trump.
“I stand by all those things I said,” King told Newsday. “I said all along I would support the nominee of the party. I do endorse him and I’ll vote for him, but I don’t intend to be campaigning for him.”
Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who has been one of Trump’s sharpest critics this election cycle – “Donald is like being shot in the head,” he said in March – stopped short on Thursday of saying that he was supporting the nominee. But the senator found his first nice words to say about Trump, saying the two held a “cordial, pleasant phone conversation” on Wednesday.
“I congratulated him on winning the Republican nomination for president,” Graham said, in a statement. “I know Mr Trump is reaching out to many people, throughout the party and the country, to solicit their advice and opinions.
“I believe this is a wise move on his part.”
Was the author of the Art of the Deal bluffing? It does not matter now, because in the last week Trump has gotten what he professed not necessarily to want: substantial party backing for his presidential candidacy.
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Republicans who have voiced support for Trump in particular, beyond the boilerplate rhetoric of supporting the party's nominee.
Endorse “Are there better people? Probably. But one of the things that we have to do is we have to broaden our pool from which we select our leaders.”
3 April 2016
Endorse “The voters of our country have turned out in record numbers to support Mr. Trump. It is important that their votes be honored and it is time that we support the party's presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump.”
05/06/2016
Endorse “[The] guy who knows how to run Miss Universe, The Apprentice, Trump Towers, construction, golf courses, casinos, ties… hotels. A guy who runs that every morning – you think he can’t run a presidential campaign?”
23 March 2016
Endorse “I am all in for @realDonaldTrump and urge all the GOP to unite and win back the White House.”
4 May 2016
Endorse “He is from the private sector, not a politician, can I get a Hallelujah?!”
20 January 2016
Endorse “I believe in the process, and the process has said Donald Trump will be our nominee and I'm going to support him and help him and do what I can. He is one of the most talented people who has ever run for the president I have ever seen.”
6 May 2016
Endorse “I am pleased to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States.”
9 May 2016
Republicans who have voiced support for Trump in particular, beyond the boilerplate rhetoric of supporting the party's nominee.
Endorse “Are there better people? Probably. But one of the things that we have to do is we have to broaden our pool from which we select our leaders.”
3 April 2016
Ben CarsonFORMER CANDIDATE, FLORIDA
Endorse “The voters of our country have turned out in record numbers to support Mr. Trump. It is important that their votes be honored and it is time that we support the party's presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump.”
05/06/2016
Bob DoleFORMER NOMINEE, KANSAS
Endorse “[The] guy who knows how to run Miss Universe, The Apprentice, Trump Towers, construction, golf courses, casinos, ties… hotels. A guy who runs that every morning – you think he can’t run a presidential campaign?”
23 March 2016
Newt GingrichFORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE,GEORGIA
Endorse “I am all in for @realDonaldTrump and urge all the GOP to unite and win back the White House.”
4 May 2016
Mike HuckabeeFORMER CANDIDATE, ARKANSAS
Endorse “He is from the private sector, not a politician, can I get a Hallelujah?!”
20 January 2016
Sarah PalinFORMER VP CANDIDATE, ALASKA
Endorse “I believe in the process, and the process has said Donald Trump will be our nominee and I'm going to support him and help him and do what I can. He is one of the most talented people who has ever run for the president I have ever seen.”
6 May 2016
Rick PerryFORMER CANDIDATE, TEXAS
Endorse “I am pleased to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States.”
9 May 2016
Jeff SessionsSENATOR, ALABAMA
