Where the Republican Party stands on Trump as of May 11
Trump waged a scorched-earth campaign to secure the nomination. He went to extreme lengths to belittle his rivals and the Republican establishment, deploying searing rhetoric while casting aside conservative policy orthodoxy.
Now the same party establishment scorned by Trump is trying to figure out what to do with him as its presumptive nominee. Some are refusing to offer their support.
“Trump needs to change his position on deporting 11 million Latinos to earn the governor’s support,” former New York Gov. George Pataki’s campaign spokesman, David Catalfamo, told Yahoo News.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that he would stand by his pledge to support the GOP nominee, though he also stood by his past attacks against Trump. Other former White House contenders found themselves in a similar box.
“I do not pretend Donald Trump is the Reaganesque leader we so desperately need, but he is certainly the better of two bad choices,” former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote Monday.
Meanwhile, most Republican U.S. senators have committed to at least vaguely backing their party’s “nominee.” Only a few, like Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, said they will not vote for Trump in November.
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte notably said she planned to vote for “our Republican nominee” for president, but hedged by insisting that did not count as an endorsement.
“I don’t know,” Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said of his voting decision. “I’m still in the first stage of grief — denial, I guess — at this point. But got to move past it and we’ll see.”
View where Republican senators stand on the Trump question below.
- Lamar Alexander
- Kelly Ayotte
- Roy Blunt
- John Boozman
- Richard Burr
- Bill Cassidy
- Dan Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Tom Cotton
- Mike Crapo
- Steve Daines
- Joni Ernst
- Deb Fischer
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin Hatch
- John Hoeven
- Jim Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Ron Johnson
- Mark Kirk
- James Lankford
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Rand Paul
- David Perdue
- Rob Portman
- Jim Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Mike Rounds
- Marco Rubio
- Tim Scott
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard Shelby
- Daniel Sullivan
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- David Vitter
- Roger Wicker
- John Barrasso
- Susan Collins
- Ted Cruz
- Mike Enzi
- Jeff Flake
- Cory Gardner
- Mike Lee
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Pat Toomey
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