Donald Trump News for May 12, 2016
05/12/2016 / By JD Heyes
Conservatives for Trump [Gateway Pundit]
This is likely to make the GOP establishment and #neverTrump crowd go bonkers, but a new survey says that supporters of The Donald are actually more conservative than average Republican voters. No way, right?
Way.
Trump supporters want a border wall and more scrutiny of Muslim migrants and refugees.
Trump supporters also understand how free trade has destroyed US manufacturing jobs.
Seems like the Republican establishment has left the building because they remain ardent “free traders” and opponents of anything that will stand in the way of the cheap labor their Chamber of Commerce cronies demand:
Trump supporters have a distinct approach to global affairs, according to Pew Research Center surveys conducted in March and April. Fully 84% of those who support Trump for the GOP presidential nomination favor building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. That compares with 56% of Republican voters who preferred another candidate for the Republican nomination – those who supported Ted Cruz or John Kasich, who last week suspended their presidential campaigns, or volunteered someone else.
Read the poll, by the Pew Research Center, here.
Trump-Ryan Meetings Begin With Nominee in No Mood for Compromise [Bloomberg News]
The likely Republican presidential nominee heads into a meeting today with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, just days after Ryan inexplicably said he “was not there yet” in supporting Trump. But the fact is, Ryan – like GOP leaders throughout the nomination process – has overplayed his hand and has failed to understand the depth and gravity of Trump’s primary victories. Per Bloomberg News:
Donald Trump went into his meetings with House Speaker Paul Ryan Thursday to deliver a message to the Republican establishment: Get on board or get out of the way. The party’s chairman said after the encounter that it was a “very positive” start.
“The meeting was great,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus wrote in a tweet. “It was a very positive step toward party unity.”
It’s not surprising that Republicans were eager to put a pleasant face on the closely watched meeting, but nobody was expecting any breakthroughs.
Trump believes he will beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with or without Ryan’s support, although he would much prefer party unity heading into the general election.
“I look forward to great meetings tomorrow and hopefully things will get going fast because having unity would be certainly much better, because we’re going to win,” Trump said in an in-person interview in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in New York City. “We’re going to beat Hillary Clinton. And Paul Ryan is a person who I know wants to do the right thing—so I look forward to the meeting.”
Read the full scoop here.
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