Ryan: ‘Not my plan’ to rescind Trump backing
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is reportedly fed up with members of his own party publicly condemning his controversial rhetoric and distancing themselves from his policy proposals. “Trump or others might say that these are just little groups who won’t do anything and it’ll fizz out - that’s not going to happen”.
“I won nearly 14 million votes, which is by far more votes than any candidate in the history of the Republican primaries”, Trump said in a statement Friday. Just a week earlier, some Republicans decried as racist Trump’s claim that a judge’s Hispanic heritage disqualified him from presiding over a court case involving Trump University.
One can nearly see the Republican Party backroom boys gathering in a smoky den and reading their candidate the riot act: “If you want to be president, You have to lie to the American people”.
“Just please be quiet“, Trump said.
“We represent a separate but equal branch of government”, he said. “He also grew very emotional during this back and forth he had with Wolf Blitzer”, he said.
“It would be disingenuous and wrongheaded to take a playbook that has been used over and over again”, said Trump senior aide Karen Giorno, in charge of an 11-state Southeastern bloc including battlegrounds Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. The House Speaker has maintained that he still supports Trump and will not rescind his endorsement.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., and the House GOP leadership, talks to reporters at the Republican National Committee headquarter on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, about their response to the deadly shooting in Orlando on Sunday that left 49 dead and more than 50 injured.
Despite his chilly comments about Republican lawmakers. They desperately need a plan. Some political pundits found this new Trump to look less exciting but more like a candidate who could actually win.
The plan unveiled Thursday is a product of a task force studded with Republican conservatives.
Kendal Unruh, a Colorado delegate who is leading the campaign, told the Washington Post that the effort is “literally is an “Anybody but Trump” movement”.
He said he believes it’s “unlikely” there will be an uprising at the convention against Trump, and if there is, “I won’t be involved in it”.
They’re not necessarily wholly focused on Trump, however. “The House can only control what the House does”, he said. “They’re pouring in, and we don’t know what we’re doing”.
And this neglect seems deliberate on Trump’s part. In fact, he gave all Republicans permission to follow their consciences when it comes to Trump.
“Passing individual bills is far superior to using a catch-all omnibus”, says the plan.
Trump veers away from the battleground states: As Clinton begins her battleground-state ad blitz, Trump campaigns for a second-straight day in Texas - after visiting Georgia the day before.
All of this positioning might not matter, though, because of it is unlikely that Dodd-Frank will even come up as a campaign issue, according to Rep. Mick Mulvaney.
“The last thing I would do is tell anybody to do something that’s contrary to their conscience”. “So it doesn’t surprise me that he hasn’t given a major speech on Dodd-Frank, because it’s not what folks back home care about”.