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GOP to Trump: Move on From Judge Curiel's Mexican Heritage​

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wire...es-bizarre-rants-tells-outright-lies-39619758

By laurie kellman, associated press writer
WASHINGTON — Jun 5, 2016, 1:13 PM ET

A pair of powerful Senate Republicans on Sunday warned Donald Trump to drop his attacks on a Latino judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University, joining the widespread rejection of their presumptive presidential nominee's treatment of the federal jurist. A third prominent Republican who also supports Trump urged the candidate to start acting like "a potential leader of the United States."

"We're all behind him now," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned, adding that it's time for unifying the party, not "settling scores and grudges." "I hope he'll change his direction."

So far, Trump has refused, reiterating in interviews broadcast Sunday that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel's Mexican heritage means he cannot ensure a fair trial involving a billionaire who wants to build a border wall to keep people from illegally entering the United States from Mexico. Curiel was born in Indiana to Mexican-born parents — making him, in Trump's view, "a hater of Donald Trump."

"I couldn't disagree more" with Trump's central argument, McConnell said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"I don't condone the comments," added Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on ABC's "This Week."

And Newt Gingrich, who became speaker of the House promising to open the GOP more to minorities, delivered the harshest warning of all.

"This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made. I think it's inexcusable," Gingrich, a former presidential contender, said on "Fox News Sunday."

Their remarks solidify the line GOP leaders have drawn in recent days between themselves and Trump, with whom they've made a fragile peace over their shared sense that almost anyone would be a better president than Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The GOP pushback against Trump comes two days before presidential primaries in California, home to more Latinos than whites. It's the final major battleground between Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Far ahead of Sanders in the delegate race, Clinton is poised to clinch her party's nomination in the next few days.

Trump has no more competition for the GOP nomination, but he does have significant issues with the most senior elected members of the party he hopes to lead.

On Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan tepidly endorsed Trump — but 24 hours later disavowed the billionaire's remarks about Curiel.

Trump University is the target of two lawsuits in San Diego and one in New York that accuse the business of fleecing students with unfulfilled promises to teach secrets of success in real estate. Trump has maintained that customers were overwhelmingly satisfied. Trump's legal team has not sought to have Curiel removed.

Trump already has rejected calls for him adjust his approach.

"I'm not changing," he said Tuesday at a fiery news conference at Trump Tower.

On Sunday, Trump doubled down on the idea. Asked on CBS whether a Muslim judge would be unfair given Trump's plan to ban Muslims from the U.S, Trump responded: "Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely."

For a party that in 2012 explicitly pinned its survival on drawing support from Hispanics, Trump's words create an ugly series of headaches.

Asked three times whether Trump's attack on Curiel was racist, McConnell thrice refused to respond directly and repeated a statement about disagreeing.

"I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans," said McConnell, R-Ky.

Gingrich answered: "I think that it was a mistake ... I hope it was sloppiness. "(Trump) says on other occasions that he has many Mexican friends, et cetera, but that's irrelevant. This judge is not Mexican. This judge is an American citizen."

Corker, R-Tenn., expressed the same discomfort many other Republicans in Congress have complained about when they're asked to respond to, or justify, Trump's remarks. "I thought this interview was going to be more about the foreign policy arena," Corker said on ABC.

Like Ryan, all three Republicans have endorsed Trump. But their comments carried the implicit caveat that their support depends at least in part on Trump dropping his criticism of Curiel. All three also suggested ways Trump could move beyond his legal issues.

Corker, who recently met with Trump in New York, said Trump "has a tremendous opportunity" to build out his foreign policy agenda.

Gingrich urged Trump to become more of a statesman.

"Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level," he said. "This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader."

McConnell's advice was blunt.

"This is a good time, it seems to me, to begin to try to unify the party and you unify the party by not settling scores and grudges against people you've been competing with," he said. "I'd like to see him reach out and pull us all together and give us a real shot at winning this November."

 

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McConnell pushes Trump to change​

Link: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/282192-mcconnell-pushes-trump-to-change

By Jordain Carney - 06/05/16 07:30 AM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is growing increasingly critical of Donald Trump, warning him to lay off GOP officials and drop his penchant for “name calling.”

McConnell, who endorsed Trump, has been granting a steady stream of interviews to create buzz for his new book “The Long Game.” In the process, he’s leveled some sharp criticism at his party’s presumptive nominee.

Asked about Trump’s tendency to lash out at other Republicans, McConnell retorted, it “ought to stop.”

"I don't like that,” he told a Baltimore radio station. “I don't think it adds any value whatsoever to the discourse. And it is something about him that I don't care for.”

He added to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that when it comes to Trump, he is “in favor of more scripts, more boring.”

The two Republicans are a study in opposites. McConnell is strategic and disciplined, while Trump has ruffled the feathers of GOP elites with his brash, unpredictable rhetoric.

McConnell has made clear he’d like Trump to get more disciplined, and has taken particular umbrage at the candidate’s tendency to lash out at members of the GOP.

During a recent rally in New Mexico, Trump lambasted home-state Gov. Susana Martinez, one of the most prominent Hispanics in the GOP.

“Your governor has got to do a better job. She’s not doing the job,” Trump said.

McConnell has repeatedly come to Martinez’s aid in interviews, telling MSNBC that the attacks on her are “unfortunate and unnecessary.”

The pushback is a marked shift for the leader, who has been known to brush off Trump questions from reporters in the Capitol.

Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, tamped down any speculation the comments reflected a change in approach toward Trump. Asked if reporters should now expect that the Republican would use his weekly press conference to criticize the presumptive nominee, he replied “nope.”

The public criticism comes as some members of McConnell’s caucus push party leadership to embrace their presumptive nominee. Freshman Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that it’s time for the party to “let Trump be Trump.”

McConnell and Trump preached party unity after meeting in Washington, but the Kentucky Republican has made clear that Trump wasn’t his first choice.

After telling a Kentucky TV station he was hopeful the Republican race would go to a second ballot at the convention, he issued a tepid endorsement once Trump was the last man standing.

McConnell has said he’s worried that Trump could drive Hispanic voters away from the GOP, which could prove disastrous for Republicans in several states.

The Senate leader has even compared Trump to 1964 nominee Barry Goldwater, who led the GOP to a crushing defeat.

“That was a complete shift that occurred that year. We've never been able to get them back,” McConnell told CNN, referring to the loss of African American voters. Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act.

Trump has high unfavorability numbers with Hispanics, having stirred controversy by saying Mexico was sending “rapists” and “drug dealers” across the border.

Still, McConnell has praised Trump for winning his party's nomination, and told NPR that the party is "at an all-time high."

He's also framed the 2016 election as a referendum on the Obama administration. McConnell said Trump is more palatable than Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who he argues would set up a third term for Obama.

Voters “have a choice, a choice between two very unpopular candidates, very unpopular,” he told CNN.

McConnell’s balancing act with Trump underscores the challenges he faces as he tries to hold onto a Senate GOP majority and defend 24 seats in November, including a handful in states previously carried by Obama.

Trying to put distance between the political fate of his caucus and Trump’s unpredictable campaign, McConnell is downplaying the impact that the businessman might have on other candidates. He told Fox News’s “The Kelly File” that it will be a “ticket-splitting kind of year,” meaning people who vote against Trump might still vote for other Republican candidates.

He’s also making the case that Republican control of the Senate would serve as a check on Trump should he win the White House.

“What protects us in this country against big mistakes being made is the structure, the Constitution, the institutions,” he told CBS. “No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don’t get to do anything you want to.”

Democrats are pledging that McConnell and his vulnerable GOP incumbents won’t be able to escape Trump’s shadow.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has been chronicling McConnell’s media tour as “a (week) in the life of Mitch McConnell and the party of Trump.” Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — who called Trump the GOP’s “Frankenstein” — is pledging to link McConnell and GOP senators to every controversial comment that Trump makes.

Democrats need to pick up four Senate seats to win control of the majority in November if they also retain the White House.

After McConnell avoided weighing on Trump’s criticism of a federal judge’s Mexican heritage, Reid fired back that “it shouldn't be hard to condemn someone for making racist comments about a Mexican judge.”

 

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Bizarre: McConnell Claims Trump Unpopular Candidate, Lesser of Two Evils​

Yet Trump polling at over 50%, Congress at 6%...

Kit Daniels - June 7, 2016 378 Comments

Link: http://www.infowars.com/bizarre-mcconnell-claims-trump-unpopular-candidate-lesser-of-two-evils/

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) claimed Donald Trump is a “very, very unpopular candidate,” despite the fact Trump’s poll numbers are nearly 10 times higher than Congress’s approval rating.

The Kentucky senator also described a potential matchup between Trump and Hillary Clinton as a choice between a “lesser of two evils,” even though Trump represents nationalism and Clinton globalism.

"We know for sure we have two very, very unpopular candidates, but we have a two-party system in this country,” he asserted Monday evening on the Texas-based Wells Report radio program. “This is a choice. Regardless of who any of us supported earlier, this is the choice.”

And strangely enough, McConnell also said Trump has to “change to win,” but reality contradicts the senator’s claim: the reason Trump won the nomination is because he ran an anti-establishment campaign.

So why is McConnell and his fellow blueblood Republicans attacking Trump not even a week after they called for party unity? It’s likely because Trump refused their offer to take Gingrich as his running mate.

As we reported earlier, the establishment offered Trump $200 million in donations to take Newt Gingrich as vice president, an offer he refused.

That prompted Gingrich, McConnell and other establishment Republicans started lashing out at him publicly.

The GOP elite want Gingrich or another insider as VP to keep Trump under control – even if it means destroying their own party to Hillary’s benefit.