Donald Trump: From An Outcast To King Of Republican Hearts?
Former House Speaker John Boehner definitely has Donald Trump’s back in Trump’s bid as the Republican candidate for the United States presidency, according to CNN.
“Donald Trump is the nominee whether people like it or not,” Boehner was quoted as saying during a question-and-answer session at a hedge fund conference in Las Vegas. CNN made it clear, however, that supporting Trump and his policies are two different things.
“But that doesn’t mean Boehner supports what Trump is pitching on the campaign trail. Asked, rapid fire, whether he supported Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S., his proposal to build a wall on the border of Mexico and the New York billionaire’s plan to aggressively use tariffs to attack foreign trade competitors, Boehner repeatedly answered with one word: ‘No.'”
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Boehner also added that he was happy that Ted Cruz has suspended his campaign, clearing the way for Trump to secure the title of “presumptive nominee” for the Republican party. Boehner also expressed confidence that Paul Ryan, the present House Speaker, will be throwing in his support for Donald Trump soon.
In another report, CNN said, “Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan concluded their highly anticipated meeting Thursday amid signals that the Republican Party will work to piece itself together after a fractious primary.”
“While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground,” CNN quoted both Trump and Ryan as saying.
Although Ryan hasn’t yet decided to support Donald Trump, the House Speaker took the opportunity to commend Trump for his extraordinary achievements. He said that Trump managed to earn more votes than any other Republican candidate in history. Ryan also added that he hopes the support generated by the presumptive nominee that is Trump can be channeled as an overall support for the agenda of the Republican party.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, John Boehner, for his part, predicted that Donald Trump will be victorious in the general election in November.
Boehner said, “Anyone who thinks Donald Trump can’t win — just watch.”
In summary, Trump has won the support and backing of all Republican leaders with the exception of only Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington and Ryan, the House Speaker. With positive statements coming from both Ryan and Boehner, it looks like it could be a matter of time before Ryan comes out supporting the presumptive nominee of the Republican party. And when that happens, only McMorris Rodgers would be the Republican leader not to support Trump.
One unsupportive Republican leader should not hurt Donald Trump at all. Another thing that the Donald doesn’t need is the support of the so-called Latino vote, according to Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Fox News Latino recently reported Sabato as saying, “It’s not a question about him doing better with Hispanics, it’s an attempt to do better in other sectors that are more favorable to Trump’s policies, like white working-class voters.”
The previous consensus among many political analysts is that all the negative statements of Donald Trump pertaining to the Hispanic sector of the American populace will come to haunt the candidate in the end. Fortunately for Trump, this is not the case.
“The border wall proposal, the call for mass deportations, the now infamous Cinco de Mayo ‘taco bowl'” — all these statements can be effectively neutralized by simply finding a running mate who will espouse Latino interests, according to political experts. In addition, Donald’s closest rival from the other party is only ahead of him by a minuscule one point, anyway. The question remains: Could the Donald have been so prescient that his perceived carelessness with the Hispanic card has actually been a calculated risk all along?
Such theory becomes highly tenable, especially when weighed against the premise that Donald Trump could be, all along, living and breathing the polls — he rarely leaves his abode not knowing what public opinion thinks of him and his statements at any given time. If this were the case, then even those seemingly spontaneous negative statements designed to antagonize opponents are actually harmless to the Donald Trump end game?
This is a tremendous paradigm shift, but if it were true, it certainly unravels Donald Trump as the consummate master player, a kind of chess player who is always many moves ahead of his opponent. This may be the reason why he has been defying all the odds from the get-go.
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