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| Republicans seek unity on Trump as Clinton and Sanders fight on – live | Republicans seek unity on Trump as Clinton and Sanders fight on – live |
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| First up this morning is Paul Manafort, the chief adviser for Donald Trump. He’s on CNN’s State of the Union with host Jake Tapper, who asks him about how the presumptive nominee’s meeting with the most powerful Republican in Washington – Paul Ryan – went earlier this week. | |
| Trump “was not asked by the leadership to change”, Manafort says, “and there’s no reason for him to change [after] beating 16 qualified candidates”. | |
| He insists: “Trump in the primaries was appealing to the broader electorate”. | |
| “That’s not to say Paul Ryan didn’t talk about policy,” he goes on. “They actually got along very well.” | |
| But he doesn’t get into any specifics, eg how Trump wants tariffs and Ryan wants free trade, Trump a wall, Ryan immigration reform. “Trump agenda’s to make America great again and Paul Ryan’s agenda to restore prosperity” have a lot of overlap, is all Manafort says. | |
| Tapper asks about the record-breaking negative feeling about Trump in the polls, for instance among women. “This is one of these conventional wisdom facts that are not correct,” Manafort says. “Yes there are some high negatives on Trump right now, who’s just come out of a a very spirited contest,” he adds, but “Hllary Clinton has some very high negatives too.” | |
| Manafort isn’t wrong: Clinton would be the most disliked candidate in modern history were it not for Trump who is even more disliked. But Manafort makes a slightly less tenuous addition to this argument, saying: the “real gender gap is a male gender gap on the part of Clinton”. | |
| He admits that Trump is struggling with women voters. “It’s an issue, it’ll be dealt with. We’re coming to a healing process,” he says. “This is way early and still already we’re seeing convergence on the party of the electorate on Donald Trump.” | |
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| Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 presidential election, two days out from the Oregon primaries and the Kentucky Democratic primary – and 10 days into a de facto, surreal general election between a former reality TV star and a former secretary of state. | Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 presidential election, two days out from the Oregon primaries and the Kentucky Democratic primary – and 10 days into a de facto, surreal general election between a former reality TV star and a former secretary of state. |
| Hillary Clinton has not yet locked up the Democratic primary election against Bernie Sanders, though she stands on the verge of doing so, with only 143 bound or unbound delegates needed for the party’s nomination. Clinton faces unexpected challenges among young and progressive voters of the west – eg: the Oregon progressives who appreciate Sanders’ liberal message – and the disaffected voters of Appalachia, who’ve been wooed in earnest by a man who wants to make coal great again. | Hillary Clinton has not yet locked up the Democratic primary election against Bernie Sanders, though she stands on the verge of doing so, with only 143 bound or unbound delegates needed for the party’s nomination. Clinton faces unexpected challenges among young and progressive voters of the west – eg: the Oregon progressives who appreciate Sanders’ liberal message – and the disaffected voters of Appalachia, who’ve been wooed in earnest by a man who wants to make coal great again. |
| But with her nomination nearly assured, Clinton has retreated from the media – it’s one of her possible vice-presidential picks who will appear on the shows this morning, while Sanders faces the press himself. He’ll talk about his plan for America’s future, with an impressive number of delegates who will help him rewrite the Democrats’ priorities with or without a clear path to the nomination. | But with her nomination nearly assured, Clinton has retreated from the media – it’s one of her possible vice-presidential picks who will appear on the shows this morning, while Sanders faces the press himself. He’ll talk about his plan for America’s future, with an impressive number of delegates who will help him rewrite the Democrats’ priorities with or without a clear path to the nomination. |
| Republicans remain the strangest story of 2016: riven by factions and taken over by a businessman who claims billions but refuses to prove it in tax forms, whose positions are reduced to “suggestions” and who has admitted, in court, to posing as an imaginary public relations person in order to brag about his dating exploits. | |
| The crisis facing Republicans is whether they can unite around this presumptive nominee, who managed to defeat 16 rivals in an orange avalanche of personal attacks, incendiary rhetoric and proposals that voters loved and congressmen loathed. | |
| Seven have endorsed him. Many, including the most powerful Republican in Congress, have inched toward supporting him. And a few holdouts, ex-presidents and an ex-nominee among them, have rejected him unequivocally. At least one of his rivals won’t even say his name. Republicans in May 2016 face an unenviable dilemma: can they rally around a man who once asked a stranger whether his 16-year-old daughter was “hot, right?” | Seven have endorsed him. Many, including the most powerful Republican in Congress, have inched toward supporting him. And a few holdouts, ex-presidents and an ex-nominee among them, have rejected him unequivocally. At least one of his rivals won’t even say his name. Republicans in May 2016 face an unenviable dilemma: can they rally around a man who once asked a stranger whether his 16-year-old daughter was “hot, right?” |
| The Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, will attempt to answer that question at least three times today. Priebus met with the presumptive nominee earlier this week, and is charged with organizing a party convention around the three-day owner of the Miss Universe beauty pageant. | The Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, will attempt to answer that question at least three times today. Priebus met with the presumptive nominee earlier this week, and is charged with organizing a party convention around the three-day owner of the Miss Universe beauty pageant. |
| The former steak salesman is not scheduled to appear this morning. In his place are supporter Jeff Sessions, a long-time Alabama senator who does not want immigration reform, Paul Manafort, a campaign adviser who recently contracted with a twice-deposed president of Ukraine, and Newt Gingrich, a supporter and former speaker of the House who wants to build a US base on the moon. | The former steak salesman is not scheduled to appear this morning. In his place are supporter Jeff Sessions, a long-time Alabama senator who does not want immigration reform, Paul Manafort, a campaign adviser who recently contracted with a twice-deposed president of Ukraine, and Newt Gingrich, a supporter and former speaker of the House who wants to build a US base on the moon. |
| Representing the conflicted class is Peter King, a New York representative who says he wants to see what the presumptive nominee has to offer. What could go wrong? | Representing the conflicted class is Peter King, a New York representative who says he wants to see what the presumptive nominee has to offer. What could go wrong? |
| Updated | Updated |
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