This is the new response many Senate GOPers are trying after Trump's disastrous response to the Orlando terrorist attacks.
Simply refuse to discuss Donald Trump at all.
"Hill Republicans despondent over Trump."
"Many senators are simply refusing to say anything about their presumptive nominee."
"Senate Republicans have tried to work with Donald Trump. They’ve offered gentle advice and firm guidance, hoping he’ll morph into a general election candidate who won’t kill their chances of keeping the Senate, or better yet, will give Hillary Clinton a run for her money."
"None of it has worked. And now a palpable mix of despair and resignation has permeated the Senate Republican Conference. Many lawmakers are openly frustrated, and refusing to defend the comments and actions of their own standard-bearer, the man they’ve endorsed for president."
"Trump’s insinuation that President Barack Obama may be sympathetic to Islamic State terrorists was the final straw for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell."
“I’m not going to be commenting on the presidential candidates today,” the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday, an abrupt reversal after several weeks of weighing in on Trump’s performance, particularly the ways he believed the candidate needed to improve.
"McConnell’s No. 2, Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, declared he is done talking about Trump until after the election — nearly five months away."
“Wish me luck,” he said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/senate-trump-gop-orlando-224339#ixzz4BdyhZ1e9
What is so stark is that while 2016 GOPers are ashamed of their own Presidential nominee, Democrats have never been more united. Yesterday, President Obama and Hillary Clinton did coordinated takedowns of Donald Trump at more or less the same time, with many of the same words.
Meanwhile in the Senate, Harry Reid continued to troll Mitch McConnell over Trump. Talked about how much the two of them have in common, how they are in total lockstep and how they sat down and had coffee together and talked over building a wall, banning Muslims, and letting other countries have nukes.
This was not how it used to be. The Dems were the party that wouldn't fall in line, that was always fighting: in the 1960s the party was destroyed in the crossfire between LBJ and RFK.
"America’s top two Democrats launched a one-two punch against Donald Trump on Tuesday, hitting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in simultaneous speeches with one message: He’s too dangerous to be commander in chief."
"And their message was even bolstered by a House Republican leader."
"President Barack Obama blasted Trump, who in the wake of America’s worst mass shooting called on the president to resign and for Hillary Clinton to suspend her campaign for refusing to utter the words “radical Islam.”
“Not once has an adviser said, ‘Man, if we use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around.’ Not once,” Obama said, speaking from the Treasury Department following a counter-Islamic State meeting. “So if someone seriously thinks that we don’t know who we’re fighting, if there’s anyone out there who thinks we’re confused about who our enemies are, that would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who we’ve taken off the battlefield.”
"Further addressing the billionaire’s criticism, Obama said that the men and women of the U.S. military “know full well who the enemy is” as he sought to reduce Trump’s heavily emphasized attack to a “political talking point.”
“So do the intelligence and law enforcement officers who spend countless hours disrupting plots and protecting all Americans, including politicians who tweet and appear on cable news shows,” he said, taking an obvious but implicit jab at Trump. “They know who the nature of the enemy is. So there’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam.’ It’s a political talking point. It’s not a strategy.”
"Approximately 240 miles away, in Pittsburgh, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed the real estate mogul’s “shameful” and “disrespectful” rhetoric, citing it as evidence that he is “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief.”
“I think we all know that that is a job that demands a calm, collected and dignified response to these kinds of events. Instead, yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested that President Obama is on the side of the terrorists,” Clinton said (Trump suggested in a Monday morning interview with Fox News that Obama was sympathetic to terrorists). “Now just think about that for a second. Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the United States."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/democrats-donald-trump-dangerous-224324#ixzz4Be0IIBTJ
"Bernie Sanders joined Obama and Clinton in their blistering rebuke of Trump, arguing that the Orlando attack came at the hands of one man, not one particular faith as a whole."
“To blame an entire religion for the acts of a single individual is nothing less than bigotry and that is not what this country is supposed to be about,” Sanders said in his remarks, which came within hours of Obama and Clinton's. “Our goal as a nation must be to bring people together to prevent violence, to prevent hatred and to create the nation that we know standing together we can create. Our goal must not be to allow politicians — Donald Trump or anyone else — to divide us up based on where our family came from, the color of our skin or our religion.”
"As Democrats laced into Trump, he wasn't finding much backing from his fellow Republicans, in another stark contrast of Democratic unity and Republican disarray."
"In a news conference on Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said a Muslim ban is not in America’s interest, as he once again found himself at odds with his party’s nominee. “I do not think it is reflective of our principles, not just as a party, but as a country,” said Ryan, who called Muslims “our partners.” “And I think the smarter way to go in all respects is to have a security test, not a religious test.”
"But it was the simultaneous evisceration from Obama and Clinton that really cut deep, showing how the two can be a powerful force against Trump in the general election battle."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/democrats-donald-trump-dangerous-224324#ixzz4Be0qzobr
Simply refuse to discuss Donald Trump at all.
"Hill Republicans despondent over Trump."
"Many senators are simply refusing to say anything about their presumptive nominee."
"Senate Republicans have tried to work with Donald Trump. They’ve offered gentle advice and firm guidance, hoping he’ll morph into a general election candidate who won’t kill their chances of keeping the Senate, or better yet, will give Hillary Clinton a run for her money."
"None of it has worked. And now a palpable mix of despair and resignation has permeated the Senate Republican Conference. Many lawmakers are openly frustrated, and refusing to defend the comments and actions of their own standard-bearer, the man they’ve endorsed for president."
"Trump’s insinuation that President Barack Obama may be sympathetic to Islamic State terrorists was the final straw for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell."
“I’m not going to be commenting on the presidential candidates today,” the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday, an abrupt reversal after several weeks of weighing in on Trump’s performance, particularly the ways he believed the candidate needed to improve.
"McConnell’s No. 2, Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, declared he is done talking about Trump until after the election — nearly five months away."
“Wish me luck,” he said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/senate-trump-gop-orlando-224339#ixzz4BdyhZ1e9
What is so stark is that while 2016 GOPers are ashamed of their own Presidential nominee, Democrats have never been more united. Yesterday, President Obama and Hillary Clinton did coordinated takedowns of Donald Trump at more or less the same time, with many of the same words.
Meanwhile in the Senate, Harry Reid continued to troll Mitch McConnell over Trump. Talked about how much the two of them have in common, how they are in total lockstep and how they sat down and had coffee together and talked over building a wall, banning Muslims, and letting other countries have nukes.
This was not how it used to be. The Dems were the party that wouldn't fall in line, that was always fighting: in the 1960s the party was destroyed in the crossfire between LBJ and RFK.
"America’s top two Democrats launched a one-two punch against Donald Trump on Tuesday, hitting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in simultaneous speeches with one message: He’s too dangerous to be commander in chief."
"And their message was even bolstered by a House Republican leader."
"President Barack Obama blasted Trump, who in the wake of America’s worst mass shooting called on the president to resign and for Hillary Clinton to suspend her campaign for refusing to utter the words “radical Islam.”
“Not once has an adviser said, ‘Man, if we use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around.’ Not once,” Obama said, speaking from the Treasury Department following a counter-Islamic State meeting. “So if someone seriously thinks that we don’t know who we’re fighting, if there’s anyone out there who thinks we’re confused about who our enemies are, that would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who we’ve taken off the battlefield.”
"Further addressing the billionaire’s criticism, Obama said that the men and women of the U.S. military “know full well who the enemy is” as he sought to reduce Trump’s heavily emphasized attack to a “political talking point.”
“So do the intelligence and law enforcement officers who spend countless hours disrupting plots and protecting all Americans, including politicians who tweet and appear on cable news shows,” he said, taking an obvious but implicit jab at Trump. “They know who the nature of the enemy is. So there’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam.’ It’s a political talking point. It’s not a strategy.”
"Approximately 240 miles away, in Pittsburgh, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed the real estate mogul’s “shameful” and “disrespectful” rhetoric, citing it as evidence that he is “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief.”
“I think we all know that that is a job that demands a calm, collected and dignified response to these kinds of events. Instead, yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested that President Obama is on the side of the terrorists,” Clinton said (Trump suggested in a Monday morning interview with Fox News that Obama was sympathetic to terrorists). “Now just think about that for a second. Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the United States."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/democrats-donald-trump-dangerous-224324#ixzz4Be0IIBTJ
"Bernie Sanders joined Obama and Clinton in their blistering rebuke of Trump, arguing that the Orlando attack came at the hands of one man, not one particular faith as a whole."
“To blame an entire religion for the acts of a single individual is nothing less than bigotry and that is not what this country is supposed to be about,” Sanders said in his remarks, which came within hours of Obama and Clinton's. “Our goal as a nation must be to bring people together to prevent violence, to prevent hatred and to create the nation that we know standing together we can create. Our goal must not be to allow politicians — Donald Trump or anyone else — to divide us up based on where our family came from, the color of our skin or our religion.”
"As Democrats laced into Trump, he wasn't finding much backing from his fellow Republicans, in another stark contrast of Democratic unity and Republican disarray."
"In a news conference on Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said a Muslim ban is not in America’s interest, as he once again found himself at odds with his party’s nominee. “I do not think it is reflective of our principles, not just as a party, but as a country,” said Ryan, who called Muslims “our partners.” “And I think the smarter way to go in all respects is to have a security test, not a religious test.”
"But it was the simultaneous evisceration from Obama and Clinton that really cut deep, showing how the two can be a powerful force against Trump in the general election battle."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/democrats-donald-trump-dangerous-224324#ixzz4Be0qzobr
Hillary also called Trump out for shamefully suggesting that the President wanted these attacks or sympathized with them 'something is going on.'
At this point, I think if you're a GOPer running for the Senate you want to run like your running for sheriff. You want it to be the opposite of a national campaign.
Not that the Democrats will let you get away with it but you have to try.
It's a tough position. Not supporting Trump might hurt with the base. But supporting him will mark you for the rest of your career.
At this point, I think if you're a GOPer running for the Senate you want to run like your running for sheriff. You want it to be the opposite of a national campaign.
Not that the Democrats will let you get away with it but you have to try.
It's a tough position. Not supporting Trump might hurt with the base. But supporting him will mark you for the rest of your career.
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