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Republican chairman warns against third-party run against Trump

Published on 16 May, 2016
Republican chairman warns against third-party run against Trump

Washington, May 16 (IANS) Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday warned that any effort by conservatives to draft a candidate to run against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump would be a "suicide mission for our country".

"What it means is that you're throwing down not just eight years of the White House, but potentially 100 years on the Supreme Court and wrecking this country for many generations," Priebus said.

"And so, I think that's the legacy these folks will leave behind."

A group of anti-Trump Republicans led by 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney and conservative commentator William Kristol had begun recruiting candidates to make an independent run for the White House, Fox News reported.

Romney has made personal overtures to Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, a prominent anti-Trump Republican, and Ohio Governor John Kasich. Inquiries have also been made to businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

"I think they should consider the ramifications of what's going to happen on the Supreme Court, get assurances from Donald Trump that they're satisfied with that would show that he's committed to those conservative justices ... and I think that's the better way to go as opposed to this third party route," he said.

Trump's top ally in the Senate said the New York billionaire would require more policy schooling to earn the confidence of other Republicans and show he was ready to take on likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

"I think he's going to need to learn. He's going to need to understand really completely ... how complex this world is," Senator Jeff Sessions said.

In particular, Sessions said Trump has much to learn about how to talk about matters of war.

Republican Tom Cole, R-Okla., a onetime Trump critic who nonetheless has vowed to back him in November, called him "a work in progress", more so than most candidates.

"Usually you know a lot more about a candidate because they've run for other things. They've cast votes. They've done things. And he does have a shoot-from-the-hip style."

GOP officials are still trying to determine who should be the leading voice for party barely six months before Americans choose their next president in a likely showdown between Trump and Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state.

Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan who held a high-profile meeting in Washington last week, represent two Republican factions. Ryan has said he was not yet ready to back Trump.

Trump and Ryan said after their meeting on Thursday that they were committed to unifying the party despite their difference over immigration, Muslim immigrants, taxes, benefit programmes and trade.

The discussion seemed to thaw relations enough to make a reconciliation seem possible, and the men spoke of keeping the lines of communication open and of finding common ground.

Ryan's predecessor as speaker, John Boehner, said he endorsed Trump and Ryan probably was "trying to help shape the direction of Trump's policies".

What concerns many Republicans is the prospect of their backing Trump and then having him stumble over the party's core policy issues.

For example, he once suggested that there should be "some form of punishment" for women who have had abortions. Ultimately, Trump said abortion providers, not women, were the ones who should be punished if abortions were outlawed.

The policy education for Trump and his team appears to be underway.

A few weeks ago, top aide Paul Manafort spent about an hour at the conservative Heritage Foundation Washington as part of what the think tank described as part of an ongoing series of policy briefings for candidates and their advisers.

Other Trump officials have been meeting individual members of the house. Trump himself met senators on the same day he met Ryan, and many emerged describing an open-minded, even earnest candidate.

And lately, Trump has taken to describing his policy proposals as merely "suggestions", but also said he is his own best foreign policy adviser.

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വെളിപാട് 2016-05-16 07:21:48
അമേരിക്കയിലും ലോകത്തിലും സാത്താൻ ഊടാടി നടക്കുകയായിരുന്നു ഇപ്പോൾ അവന്റെ രാജ്യം വരുവാൻ സമയമായി .  അന്തിക്രിസ്തുവായ ട്രമ്പ്‌ അവതരിച്ചു കഴിഞ്ഞു . സംഹാര ശക്തികൾ ഉണര്ന്നു കഴിഞു . മലയാളികളിൽ അവന്റെ രാജ്യത്തിനെതിരെ പടപോരുതുന്ന അന്തപ്പനും അന്ത്രയോസും നിത്യനരകത്തിൽ . മാത്തുള്ള തല നാരിഴക്ക് രക്ഷപ്പെടും കാരണം ട്രമ്പിനുപോലും പിടിയില്ല മാത്തുള്ള ആരുടെ കൂടെയാണെന്ന് .  മോഹൻ പാറക്കോവിലിന്റെ കേരളത്തിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ഇമെയില് ഉപരോധിക്കും . ഫൊക്കാന ഫോമ തുടങ്ങിയ സംഘടനകളും അവർക്ക് വിദേശശക്തികളുമായുള്ള ബന്ധങ്ങളും, അമേരിക്കൻ ഡോളർ ചോർത്തിക്കൊണ്ടുപോകുന്നതും നിരോധിക്കും. ഓവർസീസ്കൊണ്ഗ്രസ്സ്കാരെയും ബീജേപ്പി ശിങ്കിടികളയും അമേരിക്കയിൽ നിന്ന് നാടുകടത്തും .  'ട്രമ്പിന്റെ രാജ്യം വരേണമേ ' എന്ന് പ്രാർഥിക്കാത്തീവരെ മുഴുവൻ നിത്യനരകത്തിലേക്ക് താള്ളിയിടും .ടോമും കുരിയനും ട്രമ്പിന്റെ പ്രധാന ദൂദന്മാരായിരിക്കും ഇത് ഇന്ന് കാലത്തെ എനിക്ക് കിട്ടിയ വെളിപാട് 
Anthappan 2016-05-16 10:27:56
For the Trump faithful

  

The voice is instantly familiar; the tone, confident, even cocky; the cadence, distinctly Trumpian. The man on the phone vigorously defending Donald Trump says he’s a media spokesman named John Miller, but then he says, “I’m sort of new here,” and “I’m somebody that he knows and I think somebody that he trusts and likes” and even “I’m going to do this a little, part time, and then, yeah, go on with my life.”

A recording obtained by The Washington Post captures what New York reporters and editors who covered Trump’s early career experienced in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s: calls from Trump’s Manhattan office that resulted in conversations with “John Miller” or “John Barron” — public-relations men who sound precisely like Trump himself — who indeed are Trump, masquerading as an unusually helpful and boastful advocate for himself, according to the journalists and several of Trump’s top aides.

In 1991, Sue Carswell, a reporter at People magazine, called Trump’s office seeking an interview with the developer. She had just been assigned to cover the soap opera surrounding the end of Trump’s 12-year marriage to Ivana, his budding relationship with the model Marla Maples and his rumored affairs with any number of celebrities who regularly appeared on the gossip pages of the New York newspapers.

Anthappan 2016-05-17 08:18:50

Tom, Your friend Trump is doomed  for the following 12 reasons;

1.    Launching a bid by naming Mexican immigrants 'rapists'

2.      Claiming a POW who was tortured isn't a hero

3.      Linking the opponent's father to the assassination of JFK

4.      Playing 'my wife's hotter than yours' with an opponent

5.      Suggesting the U.S. can never default because 'you print the money'

6.      Proposing a temporary ban on members the world's largest religion

7.      Mocking women's looks and brains while running for president

8.      Mocking women's looks before running for president

9.      Impersonating his own nonexistent publicist to brag -- and then lie about it

10.  Saying that he wants to punch a protester in the face

11.  Mocking a disabled reporter

12.  Refusing to release his tax returns

Tom Abraham 2016-05-17 10:19:13

Hillary I heard this morning on the T.V. Can lose for the following 12 reasons :

1. For using private server and jeopardizing national security documents.

2. For being an enabler who will continue to enable.
3. For supporting prez. Obama in not reducing the 19 trillion national deficit.
4. For making Wall Street richer, 25 percent national revenue, to those banks benefit
5. For not reading books like' makers and Takers '. 
6. For no vision about Libya.
7. For receiving dollars from Trump in the past.
8. For being a partner in the Clinton Foundation s crooked for- profit enrichment.
9. For eight years of Mexican illegal arrival to this Nation. 
10. For not reforming Medicare, despite onbamacare s high premiums.
11. For letting China take manufacturers from the US, and jobs.
12 For the sluggish American economic growth, since 2008.

Vote for Trump, Anthappa. And save America.


Anthappan 2016-05-17 11:56:20

My answers are embedded between lines.    

. For using private server and jeopardizing national security documents.

                Unproven

2. For being an enabler who will continue to enable.

                Absurd

3. For supporting prez. Obama in not reducing the 19 trillion national deficits.

                Lie

4. For making Wall Street richer, 25 percent national revenue, to those banks benefit

                Baseless

5. For not reading books like' makers and Takers '. 

                ‘Hard Choices’

6. For no vision about Libya.

                America first

7. For receiving dollars from Trump in the past.

                Dump

8. For being a partner in the Clinton Foundation s crooked for- profit enrichment.

                No foundation

9. For eight years of Mexican illegal arrival to this Nation.

                 Stupid argument   

10. For not reforming Medicare, despite Obamacare s high premiums.

                Vote out Republicans

11. For letting China take manufacturers from the US, and jobs.

                Check Trumps brand ties

12 For the sluggish American economic growth, since 2008.

                Better than Eight years ago

              Unemployment 5%

                Wages growth 2.5%

                Gas price is the lowest in two decade

              Obma’s approval rate all time high

                

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