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Jun 19, 2016 16:36:31 #
Rather than moderate his rhetoric for critics, he tells a Vegas rally he can prevail without party help if need be.
BY MICHAEL FINNEGAN
LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump complained Saturday about his tepid support from top Republicans, an extraordinary public display of the acute tensions within the party’s top ranks a month before its national convention.
Trump told supporters at a Las Vegas casino rally that he believed it would be illegal for delegates at the GOP convention in Cleveland to nominate anyone but him for president, as some of his critics within the party have suggested they should.
“Who are they going to pick?” Trump asked. “I beat everybody. And I don’t mean beat — I beat the hell out of them. And we’re going to beat Hillary, and it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit.”
Trump’s comments to cheering followers in a Cirque du Soleil theater at the Treasure Island resort came as top Republicans are fretting — some in public — that his recent inflammatory remarks about Latinos and Muslims could endanger GOP prospects not only for the White House, but for Congress and other races in the November e******n.
Among other things, Trump has said an Indiana-born federal judge’s Mexican ancestry should disqualify him from presiding over a fraud suit against Trump and suggested that a Muslim judge would also be unable to treat him fairly in court.
After a gunman shot and k**led 49 people and wounded dozens of others at a gay nightclub last weekend in Orlando, Fla., Trump broadly accused American Muslims, without evidence, of failing to tell authorities about terrorist plots.
Trump’s stop in Las Vegas came after several days of raising money for his campaign and the Republican National Committee at events in Georgia, Texas and Nevada.
He was scheduled to raise more money Saturday afternoon in Arizona at the onetime home of Barry Goldwater, the late staunchly conservative senator whose 1964 Republican bid for the White House ended in a landslide defeat.
Trump’s failure to raise money aggressively, compared with traditional major-party White House nominees, has been a source of growing frustration for many Republicans.
On Saturday, he blamed the party for not helping him.
“Right now, I’m raising a lot of money for the Republican Party, and a lot of beneficiaries, and I like doing it — but we have to have help,” Trump told the crowd in Las Vegas.
“You know, life is like a two-way street, right? It’s a two-way street. So that’s it. Otherwise, I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing. I’ll just keep funding my own campaign.” But hopefully, he added, “I can continue to go the way we’re going.”
Trump said he wanted the party to unite.
“But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don’t want to help out as much, then I’ll fund my own campaign,” he said.
Trump showed no sign of moderating his rhetoric to accommodate GOP critics who question his temperament.
He mocked Karl Rove, a Republican political consultant who was a top aide to President George W. Bush, and conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer for casting doubts on his candidacy from the outset.
He called President Obama “pathetic,” said Secretary of State John F. Kerry was “an i***t,” and described Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as “weak.”
“You think she’s a president?” Trump asked. “Take a look at her.” michael.finnegan
@ latimes.com
JOHN LOCHER Associated Press
“WHO ARE they going to pick? I beat everybody,” Donald Trump said in Las Vegas of a possible challenge at the Republican National Convention next month.
BY MICHAEL FINNEGAN
LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump complained Saturday about his tepid support from top Republicans, an extraordinary public display of the acute tensions within the party’s top ranks a month before its national convention.
Trump told supporters at a Las Vegas casino rally that he believed it would be illegal for delegates at the GOP convention in Cleveland to nominate anyone but him for president, as some of his critics within the party have suggested they should.
“Who are they going to pick?” Trump asked. “I beat everybody. And I don’t mean beat — I beat the hell out of them. And we’re going to beat Hillary, and it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit.”
Trump’s comments to cheering followers in a Cirque du Soleil theater at the Treasure Island resort came as top Republicans are fretting — some in public — that his recent inflammatory remarks about Latinos and Muslims could endanger GOP prospects not only for the White House, but for Congress and other races in the November e******n.
Among other things, Trump has said an Indiana-born federal judge’s Mexican ancestry should disqualify him from presiding over a fraud suit against Trump and suggested that a Muslim judge would also be unable to treat him fairly in court.
After a gunman shot and k**led 49 people and wounded dozens of others at a gay nightclub last weekend in Orlando, Fla., Trump broadly accused American Muslims, without evidence, of failing to tell authorities about terrorist plots.
Trump’s stop in Las Vegas came after several days of raising money for his campaign and the Republican National Committee at events in Georgia, Texas and Nevada.
He was scheduled to raise more money Saturday afternoon in Arizona at the onetime home of Barry Goldwater, the late staunchly conservative senator whose 1964 Republican bid for the White House ended in a landslide defeat.
Trump’s failure to raise money aggressively, compared with traditional major-party White House nominees, has been a source of growing frustration for many Republicans.
On Saturday, he blamed the party for not helping him.
“Right now, I’m raising a lot of money for the Republican Party, and a lot of beneficiaries, and I like doing it — but we have to have help,” Trump told the crowd in Las Vegas.
“You know, life is like a two-way street, right? It’s a two-way street. So that’s it. Otherwise, I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing. I’ll just keep funding my own campaign.” But hopefully, he added, “I can continue to go the way we’re going.”
Trump said he wanted the party to unite.
“But if for any reason they get a little bit like they don’t want to help out as much, then I’ll fund my own campaign,” he said.
Trump showed no sign of moderating his rhetoric to accommodate GOP critics who question his temperament.
He mocked Karl Rove, a Republican political consultant who was a top aide to President George W. Bush, and conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer for casting doubts on his candidacy from the outset.
He called President Obama “pathetic,” said Secretary of State John F. Kerry was “an i***t,” and described Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as “weak.”
“You think she’s a president?” Trump asked. “Take a look at her.” michael.finnegan
@ latimes.com
JOHN LOCHER Associated Press
“WHO ARE they going to pick? I beat everybody,” Donald Trump said in Las Vegas of a possible challenge at the Republican National Convention next month.
Jun 19, 2016 16:47:31 #
CALIFORNIA POLITICS
Will GOP turnout gains pay off?
Participation swells compared with the 2012 primary, giving the party optimism for November.
CATHLEEN DECKER
For Republicans, the news wasn’t great last week. Donald Trump’s response to the Orlando mass shooting was panned even by some in his own party. Discord erupted between his campaign and the Republican National Committee. Deficits surfaced in his campaign’s fundraising, data capacity and organization.
By the end of last week, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan had announced in an NBC interview that party candidates should follow their consciences in deciding whether to back Trump. And rumbles renewed about an insurgent move to replace the presumptive p**********l nominee at the July convention.
So it was more than strange that good GOP news arose in, of all places, California.
California has been a graveyard for statewide Republican hopes for two decades now, apart from the quirky happenstances of the Arnold Schwarzenegger years. Before the primary, many Republicans here worried that Trump’s presence on the b****t would depress turnout, threatening party candidates down the b****t.
That possibility was heightened when Trump’s challengers dropped out weeks before the California v**e, making the result a foregone conclusion.
What happened on June 7? Republican turnout went up compared with California’s last p**********l primary. It’s impossible to know what drove Republicans to the b****t box, but drive they did.
Overall, Republicans lost almost 300,000 v**ers between 2012 and 2016, to just under 4.9 million this year.
But in the v**es tallied by Saturday afternoon, Republicans increased their turnout from 1.9 million in 2012 to nearly 2.1 million. More than 1 million b****ts remain to be counted and many of them are undoubtedly Republican, meaning that the increase will only get bigger.
Already, Trump had won more v**es than Mitt Romney did in 2012 here, with 1.55 million v**es. His v**e also will grow as more tabulations are done.
As to overall GOP v****g, the results were in line with turnout boosts among Republicans all over the country.
“Generally people have been pretty excited and engaged in this e******n cycle,” said Harmeet Dhillon, the state Republican Party’s vice chairwoman. “The Trump thing is one factor. It brought some Republicans who had not necessarily been engaged before.”
Dhillon noted that Republicans worked to boost v***r r**********n and turnout in key areas of the state with competitive legislative and congressional seats. But the growth in turnout was evident nearly everywhere .
Based on the most recent registration numbers, Republican turnout was more than 42%, a figure that will rise as more b****ts are counted. The comparable figure in 2012: 37%.
Republicans saw a turnout boost both in counties which they control and in counties where they are underdogs. The party’s most successful region is the Central Valley — and in Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties, Republicans on June 7 notched turnout increases in double-digit percentages.
In Fresno County, fewer than 55,000 Republicans cast b****ts in 2012; by Friday night more than 63,000 had been counted for this year’s primary, a 15% increase and growing.
Increases were even higher in Kern and Tulare counties. More populous Southern California counties saw turnout jumps as well. In the Inland Empire, v**ers responded to Trump’s campaign with turnout far ahead 2012 — by almost 38% in Riverside and 26% in San Bernardino. Most of that increase was accounted for by Trump’s advantage over Romney.
This year’s presumptive nominee also increased his edge over Romney along the coast, but not by the margins seen in the more conservative inland areas.
In Los Angeles and Orange counties, about 14% more Republicans showed up. But Trump’s advantages over Romney in those counties were far smaller.
Turnout is a concern for all political parties for a simple reason: V**ers are most often lured to the polls by the candidate at the top of the ticket. Once there, they tend to stick around for races lower on the b****t. If Republicans are turned off by Trump this year, candidates all the way down the b****t will suffer.
That fear was not realized in the primary. In Central Valley congressional districts that are perennial battlegrounds between Republicans and Democrats, a drop in GOP turnout could mean losing the seat. Yet in the district held by Democratic target Rep. Jeff Denham, GOP turnout was up 13%; in the nearby district held by Rep. David Valadao, turnout was up nearly 17%.
None of this means California will turn red in November, despite Trump’s public statements that he will contest the state. (Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has so far won more than 2.5 million v**es-and-counting here, about 1 million more than Trump.)
And Trump’s presence on the November b****t may well increase the turnout of his opponents. There is also the problem of Trump himself. The swell seen here occurred before many of Trump’s recent remarks renewed concerns about his candidacy. Republican leaders here know that turnout in the general e******n cannot be taken for granted.
“This is the primary,” Dhillon said. “There continue to be concerns and uncertainty for the general e******n.” cathleen.decker @latimes.com
Will GOP turnout gains pay off?
Participation swells compared with the 2012 primary, giving the party optimism for November.
CATHLEEN DECKER
For Republicans, the news wasn’t great last week. Donald Trump’s response to the Orlando mass shooting was panned even by some in his own party. Discord erupted between his campaign and the Republican National Committee. Deficits surfaced in his campaign’s fundraising, data capacity and organization.
By the end of last week, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan had announced in an NBC interview that party candidates should follow their consciences in deciding whether to back Trump. And rumbles renewed about an insurgent move to replace the presumptive p**********l nominee at the July convention.
So it was more than strange that good GOP news arose in, of all places, California.
California has been a graveyard for statewide Republican hopes for two decades now, apart from the quirky happenstances of the Arnold Schwarzenegger years. Before the primary, many Republicans here worried that Trump’s presence on the b****t would depress turnout, threatening party candidates down the b****t.
That possibility was heightened when Trump’s challengers dropped out weeks before the California v**e, making the result a foregone conclusion.
What happened on June 7? Republican turnout went up compared with California’s last p**********l primary. It’s impossible to know what drove Republicans to the b****t box, but drive they did.
Overall, Republicans lost almost 300,000 v**ers between 2012 and 2016, to just under 4.9 million this year.
But in the v**es tallied by Saturday afternoon, Republicans increased their turnout from 1.9 million in 2012 to nearly 2.1 million. More than 1 million b****ts remain to be counted and many of them are undoubtedly Republican, meaning that the increase will only get bigger.
Already, Trump had won more v**es than Mitt Romney did in 2012 here, with 1.55 million v**es. His v**e also will grow as more tabulations are done.
As to overall GOP v****g, the results were in line with turnout boosts among Republicans all over the country.
“Generally people have been pretty excited and engaged in this e******n cycle,” said Harmeet Dhillon, the state Republican Party’s vice chairwoman. “The Trump thing is one factor. It brought some Republicans who had not necessarily been engaged before.”
Dhillon noted that Republicans worked to boost v***r r**********n and turnout in key areas of the state with competitive legislative and congressional seats. But the growth in turnout was evident nearly everywhere .
Based on the most recent registration numbers, Republican turnout was more than 42%, a figure that will rise as more b****ts are counted. The comparable figure in 2012: 37%.
Republicans saw a turnout boost both in counties which they control and in counties where they are underdogs. The party’s most successful region is the Central Valley — and in Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties, Republicans on June 7 notched turnout increases in double-digit percentages.
In Fresno County, fewer than 55,000 Republicans cast b****ts in 2012; by Friday night more than 63,000 had been counted for this year’s primary, a 15% increase and growing.
Increases were even higher in Kern and Tulare counties. More populous Southern California counties saw turnout jumps as well. In the Inland Empire, v**ers responded to Trump’s campaign with turnout far ahead 2012 — by almost 38% in Riverside and 26% in San Bernardino. Most of that increase was accounted for by Trump’s advantage over Romney.
This year’s presumptive nominee also increased his edge over Romney along the coast, but not by the margins seen in the more conservative inland areas.
In Los Angeles and Orange counties, about 14% more Republicans showed up. But Trump’s advantages over Romney in those counties were far smaller.
Turnout is a concern for all political parties for a simple reason: V**ers are most often lured to the polls by the candidate at the top of the ticket. Once there, they tend to stick around for races lower on the b****t. If Republicans are turned off by Trump this year, candidates all the way down the b****t will suffer.
That fear was not realized in the primary. In Central Valley congressional districts that are perennial battlegrounds between Republicans and Democrats, a drop in GOP turnout could mean losing the seat. Yet in the district held by Democratic target Rep. Jeff Denham, GOP turnout was up 13%; in the nearby district held by Rep. David Valadao, turnout was up nearly 17%.
None of this means California will turn red in November, despite Trump’s public statements that he will contest the state. (Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has so far won more than 2.5 million v**es-and-counting here, about 1 million more than Trump.)
And Trump’s presence on the November b****t may well increase the turnout of his opponents. There is also the problem of Trump himself. The swell seen here occurred before many of Trump’s recent remarks renewed concerns about his candidacy. Republican leaders here know that turnout in the general e******n cannot be taken for granted.
“This is the primary,” Dhillon said. “There continue to be concerns and uncertainty for the general e******n.” cathleen.decker @latimes.com
Jun 19, 2016 17:29:07 #
He is right But your wrapped in denial. What you going to do if it happens. No place to run No place too hide. Vegas refuses to make odd on it. Think they might know something.
Jun 19, 2016 18:03:03 #
wuzblynd
Loc: thomson georgia
A Democrat In 2016 wrote:
CALIFORNIA POLITICS br br Will GOP turnout g... (show quote)
PRESIDENT. TRUMP!!!!! Libs tremble at the sound of that name!!!
Jun 19, 2016 18:14:26 #
Jun 20, 2016 01:45:18 #
jimahrens wrote:
No more chips and cool aid.
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