In the UK they ran a story where Trump met with Paul Ryan and implied that the Republicans appeared to slowly accepting Trump is their candidate and are trying to 'groom' him. As it seems very real now that he is their only hope to regain control of the The White House, how can they do this to persuade others that Trump is a real Republican?
This is a good and timely question. Although there is no official pronouncement yet, Donald Trump is the virtual candidate of the Republicans unless the pillars of the party would make a drastic move as to remove Trump from their choices. And since US is a democratic country and that the GOP adheres to the democratic principle of respecting the will of the majority, I guess it has no choice but to name the last man standing as their flag carrier otherwise they will just ruin their party since Trump had abided by their rules and procedure of selection.
Many Republicans say they will "support the ticket" even though they don't like Trump but the anti-Trump camp is still thinking of fielding a candidate they like. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anti...-party-campaign-republicans/story?id=39075924 Let's wait and see.
He seems to be the presumptive candidate since Ted Cruz backed out, it can't be helped he does have a large fan base/support group already. Paul Ryan is such a great running mate for any GOP candidate because of his appeal to the younger generation.
Bill Kristol is smoking something funny if he thinks a third party candidate wold be viable. (ABC leans liberal, btw.) It is not going to happen. Remember Ross Perot? He garnered ~18% of the 1992 vote, taking votes from George HW Bush, and handed the election to Bill Clinton. I really doubt the R's would risk letting that happen again. In the end it is ABH: Anybody But Hillary. We can't afford another 4/8 years of stagnating GDP growth and wages, and the continuation of Obama's social engineering transformation. All of the "we are not supporting Trump" business out there is posturing. To be specific, think about Paul Ryan for a minute. If Ryan had said without reservation he backs Trump, and Trump loses, Ryan's Speaker power in the House would be weakened. By making Trump come to him, Ryan shows strength *and* has an escape hatch ("see I told you Donald didn't have the full Republican backing") should Trump lose. Ryan won't be a VP, nor will Christie (better for him as AG). Press are speculating, and Trump has said he would prefer someone with goverment experience. Gingrich (who worked with Clinton in his second term) was floated in the press the other day, but I suspect that was just a trial balloon to see who may take shots at it. Rich Zeoli has a show on WPHT-1210 Philadelphia M-F 3-6 pm ET. I find his insight, as an ex-NJ county chairman of the Republican party, to be quite interesting. WPHT is a 50 kw clear channel station covering into New England and northern Virginia during the day, or use the Tunein app or website. WPHT isn't on iHeartRadio so far as I can tell. You can also listen to the show or get podcasts at his http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/personality/rich-zeoli/ webpage. In my opinion, it is much too early to put much stock in the Trump versus Hillary polls. Sample sizes are often too small to be meaningful. Now that the bulk of the primaries are over, the public's thoughts are turning to summer family vacations and fun in the sun. There will be a minor bump in attention to the conventions (who will be the VP nominee), but the public's attention won't really ramp up until the fall. New TV shows and series and football will interrupt the political advertising. Of a minor interest, Hillary's email problems may attract attention for a while. Generally, most pundits agree that she won't be indicted. Obviously Hillary has all but locked up the delegate count to be the nominee, but if Bernie continues to rack up state wins there might be some pushback on Hillary's negatives. Should the D's perceive her negatives are too high (despite the delegate count), the FBI investigation could be ramped up and, using Hillary's coughing fits as a medical excuse, she might be "persuaded" to step aside. Joe Biden said, in a recent interview, he could have been the "best" president; add Elizabeth Warren, and there is a new D ticket. Now, do I think all that will happen? Stranger things have happened, but not in this case. Hillary will be the nominee coming out of the Philadelphia-based convention. I believe the economy (jobs) and terrorism are the 1-2 issues for the upcoming elections. Onwards and upwards.
