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| Trump and Ryan meeting in DC in bid to stoke Republican unity – campaign live | Trump and Ryan meeting in DC in bid to stoke Republican unity – campaign live |
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| Protesters gathered outside RNC headquarters as the Republican congressional leadership arrived for the Trump summit. | |
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| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. The battle-hardened and triumphant Donald Trump today will present his victories in the halls of power, where rival leader Paul Ryan must decide whether he is to be greeted as an ally or expelled as a traitor, to the peril, perhaps, of the entire Republican kingdom. | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. The battle-hardened and triumphant Donald Trump today will present his victories in the halls of power, where rival leader Paul Ryan must decide whether he is to be greeted as an ally or expelled as a traitor, to the peril, perhaps, of the entire Republican kingdom. |
| To say that the Grand Old Party has arrived at a fraught juncture in its 160-year history is to risk understating the stakes of meetings today on in Washington between the presumptive presidential nominee and congressional leaders including Ryan, the speaker of the House. | |
| The conclusion may already have been written. Ryan on Wednesday signaled a new willingness to work with Trump, whose promise to exclude Muslims from the US and seeming lack of discomfort with the KKK reportedly fed Ryan’s reluctance, stated just last week, to back him. | The conclusion may already have been written. Ryan on Wednesday signaled a new willingness to work with Trump, whose promise to exclude Muslims from the US and seeming lack of discomfort with the KKK reportedly fed Ryan’s reluctance, stated just last week, to back him. |
| “I want to be a part of that unifying process,” Ryan decided yesterday morning, calling the GOP a “big-tent party”. | “I want to be a part of that unifying process,” Ryan decided yesterday morning, calling the GOP a “big-tent party”. |
| Related: Take it or leave it: Trump's rise puts moderate Republicans in a tough spot | Related: Take it or leave it: Trump's rise puts moderate Republicans in a tough spot |
| Trump made sounds of compromise, too, telling Fox News Channel’s Brian Kilmeade that his plan to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the US was “only a suggestion”. | Trump made sounds of compromise, too, telling Fox News Channel’s Brian Kilmeade that his plan to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the US was “only a suggestion”. |
| “It hasn’t been called for yet,” Trump said on Kilmeade & Friends, when asked about criticism from the newly elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital. “Nobody’s done it. | “It hasn’t been called for yet,” Trump said on Kilmeade & Friends, when asked about criticism from the newly elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital. “Nobody’s done it. |
| “It’s a temporary ban, it hasn’t been called for yet, nobody’s done it, this is just a suggestion until we find out what’s going on,” Trump said. | “It’s a temporary ban, it hasn’t been called for yet, nobody’s done it, this is just a suggestion until we find out what’s going on,” Trump said. |
| In December, Trump proposed a “total and complete shutdown” on Muslim travel to the US. | In December, Trump proposed a “total and complete shutdown” on Muslim travel to the US. |
| Thanks for reading and as always, please join us in the comments. | Thanks for reading and as always, please join us in the comments. |
| Related: Donald Trump's refusal to release tax returns 'disqualifying' says Mitt Romney | Related: Donald Trump's refusal to release tax returns 'disqualifying' says Mitt Romney |
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