Long Island Rep. Peter King among Republicans horrified by Donald Trump
BY LEONARD GREENE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 9:38 PM
JIM COLE/AP“Maybe I’ll become a reporter for the Daily News,” King quipped. “Listen, it’s not going to happen. Right now I’m just focusing on Marco Rubio becoming the nominee. I’m not going beyond that.”
Long Island's Republican Rep. Pete King says he might have to get out of politics if Donald Trump is his party’s nominee.
“Maybe I’ll become a reporter for the Daily News,” King quipped. “Listen, it’s not going to happen. Right now I’m just focusing on Marco Rubio becoming the nominee. I’m not going beyond that.”
But as the hypothetical moves dangerously close to actuality, King joined a squadron of GOP leaders on the front lines of an internal party showdown.
While wait-and-see party loyalists like King aren’t ready to say “never,” at least one Republican senator is shouting it from the top of the U.S. Capitol.
Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday he won’t vote for Donald Trump if the billionaire and GOP presidential front-runner becomes his party’s nominee.
“If Trump becomes the Republican nominee my expectation is that I’ll look for some third candidate — a conservative option, a constitutionalist,” Sasse, a first-term senator from Nebraska, tweeted Sunday night.
An Associated Press survey of GOP senators and governors showed just under half of respondents would not commit to backing Trump if he is the nominee. Their caution foreshadowed what could be an extraordinary split in the party this fall.
“Right now, we are in a very dangerous place,” said former Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota.
VIEW G“You’ve got a con man and a bully who is moving forward with great speed to grab the party’s mantle to be its standard bearer,” the Republican, who backs Rubio, told the AP. “That’s almost incomprehensible.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said there will be a frenzy among Republicans to stop Trump from winning the nomination.
“I don’t think the frenzy will work, and if it doesn’t, then both Trump and the Republican leadership — the traditional leadership — face a big decision,” Gingrich told Fox News.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee who recently reemerged to predict “a bombshell” in Trump’s tax returns, called the candidate’s failure to immediately condemn former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke’s endorsement “repugnant and disgusting.”
Trump even has some white supremacists shaking their heads.
“I do not support Donald Trump, but I do support the CHAOS he brings in his wake,” said Tom Metzger, founder of the White Aryan Resistance. “David Duke is, as always, an ambulance chaser and has ruined careers several times before, just to build a mailing list.”
One senator was kicking himself for not dismissing Trump sooner.
“These are challenging times for the Republican Party,” said Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who endorsed Rubio last week.
“Those that care deeply, as myself, probably should have been engaged earlier in trying to show that Donald Trump is not the right one to lead the conservative movement and to lead our party.”
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reps. Peter King, Lee Zeldin endorse Donald Trump for president
Updated May 4, 2016 6:50 PM
By Tom Brune tom.brune@newsday.com
Rep. Lee Zeldin endorsed Donald Trump on Wednesday, as has Rep. Peter King. (Credit: Newsday / Karen Wiles Stabile)
WASHINGTON — Long Island’s Republican congressmen, Peter King and Lee Zeldin, endorsed Donald Trump after the New York entrepreneur and reality TV star effectively clinched the nomination as the Republican presidential candidate on Wednesday.
Keep going man! You are only 3 hours away from a 24 hour filibuster...First post of the day at 146 am ...Fucking no life loser...
