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Republican party’s internal dispute grows over Donald Trump

Republican party’s internal dispute grows over Donald Trump

Posted May. 10, 2016 07:29,   

Updated May. 10, 2016 07:36

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The Republican Party, which is holding the majority seats in both the House of the Congress and the Senate, is facing an unprecedented divide within the party over endorsing Donald Trump, who is very much likely to run for the presidential election under the Grand Old Party’s ticket. Mr. Trump responded with pointed remarks against the mainstream of the party who has expressed either reservations or opposition to him.

Aimed at House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said on Sunday that he is “not ready” to support Donald Trump in an interview on NBC, Mr. Trump said he would start acting accordingly if the House Speaker were not to support him. In response, the New York Times quoted some officials from Mr. Trump’s camp and reported that Donald Trump would not rule out the effort to remove Paul Ryan as chairman of the Republican National Convention. Mr. Ryan will assume chairman position in the upcoming Republican Convention in July where a presidential candidate will be nominated.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was a vice-presidential candidate of the presidential election in 2008, said that she would work to defeat Paul Ryan during an interview with CNN. The former governor of Alaska said, “His political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people…I think Paul Ryan is soon to be "Cantored." She referred to the former Republican House majority leader who was ousted in a shocking upset in 2014 after losing his primary to a Tea Party-backed candidate.

It appears that the upcoming Washington meeting between Mr. Trump and the House Speaker on Thursday will be a watershed event for fence-mending within the party.



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