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| Trump and Ryan meet in bid to stoke Republican unity – campaign live | |
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| Trump’s on his way to meet the Senate. | |
| Trump motorcade heading to the Senate side pic.twitter.com/g2ZzXBGHz9 | |
| Minority leader Harry Reid took the senate floor this morning and tweaked the Republican leadership for embracing Trump, reported Niels Lesniewski of Roll Call: | |
| “When they get together, they can talk about their policies about being anti-woman,” the Nevada Democrat said on the Senate floor. “Since senator McConnell has so enthusiastically embraced Trump, we can only assume he agrees with Trump’s view that women are dogs and pigs.” | |
| Reid says "We can only assume" that McConnell agrees with Trump that "women are dogs" | |
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| Priebus: 'the meeting was great' | |
| Trump has finished his meeting with House leaders and is now en route to meet the senators, CNN reports. | |
| RNC chair Reince Priebus says “the meeting” – it appears he’s talking about the meeting including Paul Ryan – “was great”: | |
| The meeting was great. It was a very positive step toward party unity. | |
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| Sarah Palin made the transition from politician to reality star. Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t quite be said to be following in her footsteps, owing to the movie career that predated his entry to politics, but he’s now making a similar transition, to run Celebrity Apprentice in its post-Donald Trump incarnation. Trump has become the first reality star to transition successfully to politics (sorry, Clay Aiken). And around goes the merry-go-round. | |
| You're welcome, America. https://t.co/UA4Sof7U4Z pic.twitter.com/zXYe8vBLKL | |
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| What does Ryan have against Trump? | |
| After an early reluctance to back Donald Trump in the presidential nominating race despite the candidate’s string of authoritative state victories, most Republican members of Congress have come around to supporting the nominee (if not by name) in the week since his resounding victory in Indiana. | |
| The main exception, notable because he is the top Republican elected official in the country, has been House speaker Paul Ryan. “I’m just not ready to do that at this point,” Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee, told CNN in an interview last Thursday when asked if he was backing Trump. “I’m not there right now.” | |
| What were Ryan’s objections? Unnamed sources close to the speaker said that Ryan – whose political biography has him as the forthright son of small-town Wisconsin raised on the Midwestern values of personal moral hygiene and interpersonal respect, and whose political mentor was Jack Kemp, the embodiment of a sunnier politics and a more compassionate conservatism – particularly balked at Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown” of travel by Muslims to the United States and at Trump’s slowness to reject support from the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist elements. | |
| Ryan’s apparent revulsion at Trump surfaced in a couple news conference the speaker called in March to tut-tut about the nastiness playing out on the campaign trail. “It didn’t used to be this bad,” he said at one. “This party does not prey on people’s prejudices,” he said at another. | |
| But the divisions between the two go beyond stylistic differences, or their separate manuals of political manners. Central to Ryan’s political identity have been his hawkishness on the budget, which extends to cutting spending on Medicare and Social Security, and his support for immigration reform, which includes legal status for DREAMers and “legal probation” for other undocumented migrants. Trump has said he won’t touch people’s Social Security checks and wants to deport all undocumented migrants. | |
| Ryan is scheduled to address the media in about an hour, and to indicate whether he can overcome his objections to Trump, just one week after he last voiced them. On Monday Ryan began indicating he might, saying that his problem with Trump was rooted in the fact that the two were effectively strangers. “We just need to get to know each other,” he said. | |
| Whatever Ryan’s objections to Trump – whatever the Republican party’s objections to Trump – can their differences be resolved – can they “get to know each other” – sufficiently in a morning meeting in the capital for them to be able to emerge and declare a truce, if not full-on unity? We’ll know more shortly. | |
| It'd be pretty funny if Paul Ryan came out of the meeting and said "you know what, fuck that guy." | |
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| Protesters taunt Trump summit | Protesters taunt Trump summit |
| Protesters gathered outside RNC headquarters as the Republican congressional leadership arrived for the Trump summit. | 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. | 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 |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 3.12pm BST | at 3.12pm BST |