Trump presses Republican leaders to embrace him

Yes, yes. Please do unite behind Trump.

And die in the fall.

It was inevitable that Trump's branch of the WASP establishment would eventually merge with some of other WASP branches of the establishment. Same old same old.

What's Cruz' new slogan again? "Yes , we will" ? Sounds like some desperate rallying cry . . . . similar to the millions of illegals who onced marched in downtown LA chanting in Spanish, "Si se puede" (yes we can).

Phase two of the Trump campaign. I thought it would be after nomination but he went too far with some attacks and did alienate some. He will reel in other supporters.

A tiger doesn't change its stripes. Trump will be Trump and it won't be long before he says something outrageous. The Clinton campaign will have no shortage of ammunition to use against him.

It's also a reality that Trump's seemingly bulletproof persona will be far more vulnerable in a general election campaign than in the primaries. About 1/2 of Republican primary voters find his blend of xenophobia and bigotry to be appealing. Those voters account for about 1/8 of the registered voters in this country. What they like will be loathed by many others. The very aspects of Trump's personality that many Republicans find to be appealing will be anathema to the rest of the country.

Ms. Clinton doesn't need to worry about how to attack Donald Trump. What she needs to work on is her own image. It has been tarnished, wrongfully, in my opinion, by a tsunami of negative coverage. My suspicion is that she's going to be working harder at building herself up than tearing Trump down. That work is largely complete.

Trump also came out against the government’s plan to replace President Andrew Jackson with the civil-rights figure Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/23d.asp (election 1824: "The Corrupt Bargain")

=Andrew Jackson steamrolled Clay in the next election. Seems to me we are at that "Corrupt Bargain" election phase once again.

Trump will be Trump and it won't be long before he says something outrageous.

If "it" needs to be said, then let those with ears listen. Saying something outrageous then hearing everyone's feedback and making an analysis is a healthy thing for a people to do.

“I want to see Mr. Trump begin to bring us together,” said Henry Barbour, a committeeman from Mississippi. “And I haven’t seen it. It’s not good enough to do it for 30 minutes one day and then the other hours of the day try to divide.”

Many agree with Mr. Barbour in regard to pigs flying.

Many wish to see pigs fly.

Many are willing to hear about pigs flying.

But, in the end, pigs won't fly.

And Donald J. Trump has already shown kind of pig he is.

And that don't fly. Whata LOOSER.

Donald J. Trump is simply the most detestable billionaire with bigots backing him.

But, in the end, pigs won't fly.

Pigs flew when obama was elected. A prophecy that a Black man would inhabit the White House when "Pigs fly."

Donald J. Trump is simply the most detestable billionaire with bigots backing him.

Haters gona hate-

Saying something outrageous then hearing everyone's feedback and making an analysis is a healthy thing for a people to do.

Very true - until you're about in junior high school.

Why do so many Trump supports think Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya?

Why do so many Trump supports think Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya?

It's a fantasy so that they can imagine owning him as a slave.

It's a fantasy so that they can imagine owning him as a slave.

Heh. Lincoln was a republican. He helped free the slaves. Owning slaves was wrong, a dark episode in US history. Not all Trump fans are bigots.

It's a fantasy so that they can imagine owning him as a slave.

And ironically, that's who the left will vote for, a slave for the corporate/banker/globalist elitists selling out the middle class one bialout at a time, never REALLY changing the rules in favor of the families, protecting their ass..sets first. This why Hillary will never win. Just because you refuse to acknowledge it, doesn't make it go away.

Not all Trump fans are bigots.

To parody a line from the right: "Not all Trump fans are bigots, but all bigots are Trump fans".

ironically, that's who the left will vote for, a slave for the corporate/banker/globalist elitists selling out the middle class one bialout at a time

Ha-Ha. Good 1 Fizz.

Lincoln was a republican.

And most of the south at the time was democratic. The situation has clearly reversed, and I have no doubt Lincoln would be a democrat if he was alive today.

Lincoln would be a democrat if he was alive today.

Naw, he'd still be GOP. But I'm sure he'd have different views on gun control since he was assassinated by a slave owner.

Even as his team pressed Trump’s case, the billionaire raised fresh concern among some conservatives by speaking against North Carolina’s “bathroom law,”

What is it with conservatives and their obsession with public toilets? It's pretty obvious they have a wide stance in the bathroom.

What is it with conservatives and their obsession with public toilets?

What's the left's obsession for pro transgender restrooms? There should be a mens room and a ladies room. Thats it! . . . if Hilary gets elected, she's gonna make America "whole again." Good, then we won't have all this nonsense about facilitating transgenders in public places.

The left ? Heh, wtf ?

I'm just not into discrimination. Transgender people have a hard enough life without insane Republicans fighting their latent homosexual urges. Even Trump gets it (although that's only because he's playing the insane Republicans for the fools they are with his false inflammatory platform)

This for me says it all on the Republicans' obsession with what goes on in public toilets:

http://www.inquisitr.com/2551748/you-really-want-me-in-the-same-bathroom-as-your-husband-transgender-woman-says-lgbt-community-needs-protection/

The whole toilet thing is just weird. It seems like the GOP invented some wedge issue out of thin air. You are either with them or you support transgender super predators alone with your children. Who knew that was a thing?

It's obvious they are just looking to stigmatize transgenders, and that's messed up. If they really cared about predators they should start with priests and boys. Especially since that's actually a real thing.

If you want to see great satire, check out this SNL skit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDAa1If-u4.

If you have a ding-a-ling you use the men's room. Their is no pretending you are a woman. Just wait until the pervs take advantage on the "gender confused" green light. Oh, the lawsuits.

Do you think perversion is exclusive to transgender people Mark?

It's a GENDER issue for these people, not a sexual issue.

The only people making this about sex are your insane Republicans, and that is only to hide their own issues that corresponds to latent homosexuality.

So much for "compassionate" conservatives. Can any one of you actually pause for a moment to reflect on how difficult it must be to be born with a gender disorder?

As we've seen with homophobic, outspoken Republican's - they are the ones touching up other men in public toilets or even seeking male prostitutes for drug fuelled sex parties...

There's no wonder the insane Republican party is on the brink of extinction. And it's about freaking time.

What is it with conservatives and their obsession with public toilets?

The heavily Democratic Charlotte City Council are actually the ones that started it with a city ordinance barring discrimination and creating transgender accommodation for bathroom use. Trump just said something eminently reasonable about the law that has stirred up a nationwide backlash against North Carolina.

“There have been very few complaints the way it is,” he said. “People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. The problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife and the economic punishment they are taking.”

Trump, working against type, stepped away from the crazy.

Lizz,

Trump, working against type, stepped away from the crazy.

That's simply because he's been using the crazy all along. Massaging the monster created by a Republican party descended into madness to cinch the delegates needed to become the nominee.

I wonder how the trailor trash will react to the "new" Trump as he distances himself from his prior, insane, positions in attempts to capture moderate voters.

Will there be a backlash or are people dumb enough (insane to moderate) to elect this devious man into office?

There are many tourists from foreign countries that do not have toilet system like USA. NCarolina might got upset on them.

A couple years ago, Las Vegas created local law that Police will arrest people who urinate on streets or ponds of Casinos. Tourists are no longer Urinate into swimming pools.

I wonder how the trailor trash will react to the "new" Trump as he distances himself from his prior, insane, positions in attempts to capture moderate voters." - comments

This is the problem for the GOP/Tea.

The GOP/Tea must embrace Trump's bigots, making racism and prejudice the center piece of the GOP/Tea national campaign.

The racist appeal of Trump, and his success with the angry ignorant of the GOP/Tea bigots, is an ugly mask to hang on all Republicans. Will the GOP/Tea embrace their real identity after all? How many Republicans want to wear the robes of the KKK Trump refused to condemn?

Most Americans already know that answer, the GOP/Tea has embraced racism since Trump launched his five years long 'birther racism' to sow the seeds of hate for race on FOXNews.

That's some resume for the Presidency and Trump created that as his tribute to the promise and pledge of the American creed. Making America Hate Again.

'What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas' - "What Happens Here, Stays Here" slogan is one of the more famous taglines in modern tourism marketing and one of the most quoted, talked about, and recognized ad campaigns in any industry.

Toshiko: You may be ruining Las Vegas (tourism) by talking to much and giving outsiders inside dirt.

@Badsey3: I only write clean stories of Vegas cleaning up. Haven't written daily occurrence of gamblers rushing to wrong toilet area ... both males and females.

Trump has big issues with being loved. Regarding (fill in the blank) factions, his go-to phrase is, "I've spoken with them recently and they LOVE me!" So now he has his lackeys pressing the other GOP members to "embrace" him as well. Definitely a personality that would make a psychoanalyst wealthy.

Yes people, vote for Trump the Democrat!

The Democrats would never have entertained Trump as a candidate. So he masterfully captured the attention of the insane beast the crackpot Republicans nurtured over the last decade or more to make his mark, something he could never have achieved as an independent.

I once thought he was working for the Clintons. But now I'm starting to belive Mitt Romney. Trump is skint, this is all about him making money as fools lap up his ridiculous candidacy...

@Madverts: I too, thought he showed up to help his family friends Clinton. Last election, he helped Romney to win against Gingrich. Romney won, Gingrich's money supporter switched to Romney. This year, money man is careful,

Trump is beginning to evolve and make more sense by saying that transgenders should be allowed to use whichever restroom they choose. This is the correct position on this controversial issue. He'll take some shots for it, but he's right on this one.

For once he's right. That's just going to piss off a lot of his base though.

Conservative Mr.Koch brothers came out and said he cannot support any GOP candidates and so they will support Hillary.

Trump's son said his father says a certain say to get attention

His oldest daughter is still best friend of Clinton's daughter who comforted her when her father brought Young Melanie as a new mother. I don't now Melanie's age but maybe communication problem? Melanie speak fine but we foreigners speak with different accent than American born people.

Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch has historically backed Republican candidates. So his claim that Clinton could make a better president could be a very bad sign for the GOP.

Making the grab bag of fawning ideologues from the GOP/Tea appear even more incompetent, Charles Koch has made his choice clear to the Republican leadership.

Had Koch thought Trump was any but a racist and woman hater, he might have seen the benefit in having another billionaire in the White House. Obviously even the most manipulative of GOP/Tea backers have given up on the bigots and religious prejudice of the Republican Party.

As noted here by other comments, Koch's rejection of the party of hate proves the only remaining campaigners for the GOP/Tea will be in the shadow of the biggest display of racism since the sixties. If that means making America Hate Again, the lesson is clearer than ever.

The GOP/Tea is poison to a real manipulator and profiteer of the Republican business plan.

Translation? Hate is a terrible business model and Trump is clearly too ignorant to have done his research that would have shown how destroying his own brand of haberdasher goods will last long after the election. Trump's legacy will be the irrevocable association with ignorance and hate and the long list of racists and bigots who sport Trump stickers and hats.

If that is Trump's idea of greatness, the only greatness he has achieved is in the eyes of his old, white, unemployed and too willing to blame others for their own failures.

Wisely, Republican leaders, and overwhelmingly the population of American voters, see Trump for the fraud and racist his five year "birther racism' has proved Trump and his followers to be. Trump, like his racism, is poison to business and American voters.