So far he hasn't exactly unified the party in the four days since becoming the presumed nominee.
Conservative pundits at the National Review and Red State America are saying they won't vote Trump-some are even making the case for voting for Hilary as the lesser of two evils.
Meanwhile, some GOPers like Dick Cheney and Bob Dole say they'll vote for Trump, even more have said they won't-the Bushes, Mitt Romney, etc.
Few of the party bigs plan to even be at the convention.
In light of Trump's utter failure to unify the party, he has declared this to be a feature not a bug. He will win without unifying the party:
"Donald Trump says he thinks he can win the general election, even if the Republican Party does not unify to support his candidacy."
"Does it have to be unified? I'm very different than everybody else, perhaps, that's ever run for office. I actually don't think so," Trump told George Stephanopoulos in an interview that will air Sunday on ABC News' "This Week."
"A growing list of Republicans have come out and said they will not vote for their party's presumptive presidential nominee in November, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, and the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. But none of that is rattling Trump."
"I think it would be better if it were unified, I think it would be -- there would be something good about it. But I don't think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense," Trump said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-doesnt-republican-party-unified/story?id=38955749
Conservative pundits at the National Review and Red State America are saying they won't vote Trump-some are even making the case for voting for Hilary as the lesser of two evils.
Meanwhile, some GOPers like Dick Cheney and Bob Dole say they'll vote for Trump, even more have said they won't-the Bushes, Mitt Romney, etc.
Few of the party bigs plan to even be at the convention.
In light of Trump's utter failure to unify the party, he has declared this to be a feature not a bug. He will win without unifying the party:
"Donald Trump says he thinks he can win the general election, even if the Republican Party does not unify to support his candidacy."
"Does it have to be unified? I'm very different than everybody else, perhaps, that's ever run for office. I actually don't think so," Trump told George Stephanopoulos in an interview that will air Sunday on ABC News' "This Week."
"A growing list of Republicans have come out and said they will not vote for their party's presumptive presidential nominee in November, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, and the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. But none of that is rattling Trump."
"I think it would be better if it were unified, I think it would be -- there would be something good about it. But I don't think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense," Trump said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-doesnt-republican-party-unified/story?id=38955749
It's just so striking to compare the Democrat and Republican parties right now. The GOP is so divided it can't even get behind its own Presidential nominee.
The Dems are incredibly unified. Hillary is going to have all these popular party leaders campaigning for her: President Obama, VP Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama, Hillary's own husband, Elizabeth Warren, and many others.
Meanwhile the claim that Trump is expanding the map for GOPers is laughable. To the contrary another poll suggests he may be putting Georgia in play for Hillary Clinton. There was a recent poll which had her leading. Another one shows her down by just 1 point.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/hillary-clinton-has-already-caught-donald-trump-in-the-polls-in-georgia/24718/
There are those worrying that Hilary needs to be more aspirational. I look at it this way. When you're opponent is going to knock himself out if only you let him, you let him knock himself out.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/let-donald-trump-knock-out-donald-trump.html
If she was able to sell her message of competent pragmatism to a Democratic primary I don't see why she can't sell this to a general electorate, particularly one utterly spooked by Donald Trump.
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