Thread: BREAKING: Trump Gets Endorsement … This One Is YUUUGE!

By: Kim Smith on April 19, 2016 at 11:10am

Despite a rough few weeks battling it out with the Republican National Committee, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to pick up endorsements that could help him get to the White House.

On CNN this morning, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani finally endorsed the New York businessman. Host Chris Cuomo called out Giuliani for saying he supported Trump but never actually endorsed him.

“Okay, so I endorse him,” Giuliani said bluntly, “but I’m not part of the campaign.”

When Cuomo asked him to explain the difference between an endorsement and support, Giuliani explained that he in no way spoke for Trump’s campaign nor did he offer advice to him. He added that any other time that he’s endorsed someone, he’s been involved with the campaign, and he didn’t want people to think that was the case with Trump.

“I’m willing to accept if you want to interpret that as an endorsement,” he explained. “If you interpret that as an endorsement, it’s an endorsement. But if you interpret that in any way as a suggestion that you shouldn’t vote for Donald Trump, absolutely not. Trump is clearly the best choice.”

He said that Trump is the best man for New York and America. He also said that Trump was the man that could beat Democrat rival Hillary Clinton.

He didn’t show as much faith in Sen. Ted Cruz, however.

“She’ll knock him out of the park,” he predicted. “Trump, she’ll have no idea what to do with.”

Watch the interview below:

Trump also recently picked up the endorsement of the New York Veteran Police Association.

Guiana’s endorsement is certainly huge news for Trump and, it came at the perfect time as New Yorkers head out to the polls for the state’s primary election.

H/T Mediaite

BREAKING: Trump Gets Endorsement ... This One Is YUUUGE!

“She’ll knock him out of the park,” he predicted. “Trump, she’ll have no idea what to do with.”

Couldn't have said it better myself!

Meet Trump 2.0: "Be Afraid, Anti-Trump Forces, Be Very Afraid"


Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/20/2016 22:30 -0400
Authored by Chris Cillizza, originally posted at The Washington Post,


Gone was "Lyin' Ted." In its place was "Senator Cruz." Gone was the long-winded speech that went nowhere. In its place was a succinct recitation of states and delegates won. Gone was the two-day vacation as a reward for winning. In its place was an early morning trip to Indiana followed by another planned stop in Maryland.
Donald Trump 2.0 made his official debut Tuesday night following his sweeping victory in New York, a win that looks to net him 90 delegates and reestablishes him as the man to beat in the Republican presidential race.
That version of Trump was markedly more disciplined, gentler and more appealing than the version of Trump we've seen for much of the last year. And, that fact should scare the hell out of establishment Republicans who believed that their efforts to keep Trump from the 1,237 delegates he needs to formally capture the GOP nomination was beginning to catch on.
Why? Because it's clear, at least for now, that Trump is listening to his new political advisers -- chief among them convention manager Paul Manafort and national field director Rick Wiley. Trump's change in tone on Tuesday night was absolutely unmistakeable to anyone who has paid even passing attention to his campaign to date. The man who had built his frontrunning campaign on a willingness to always and without fail take the race to its lowest common denominator -- was suddenly full of respect for the men he beat and full of facts about the state of the race.
"We have won millions of more votes than Senator Cruz, millions and millions of more votes than Governor Kasich," Trump said. "We've won, and now especially after tonight, close to 300 delegates more than Senator Cruz."
The change in tone is absolutely necessary if Trump wants to not only find a way to 1,237 delegates but also unite the party behind him in any meaningful way heading into the general election campaign this fall. The truth is that Trump has to play an outsider and an insider game from here on out. The outsider game is to keep winning primaries by convincing margins like he did in New York. The insider game is to show unbound delegates as well as party leaders and influencers that he can be magnanimous, that he can be a uniting force within the party.
Calling Cruz "Lyin' Ted" is a great laugh line at a Trump rally but accusing the Texas senator of holding up the Bible and then putting it down and lying isn't exactly the sort of rhetoric you need or want from a candidate who needs to bring the party together behind a common enemy in Hillary Clinton. It's the difference between being voted "class clown" and being elected student body president. The former delights in taking the low road for cheap laughs. (I speak from experience.) The latter takes the high road even if it's against his or her own natural instincts.
Can Trump keep it up? Discipline on a single night or even a single week is one thing. Discipline over several months amid what will be continued attacks from both Cruz and the "stop Trump" movement is something else. And, listening to your new advisers when they are, well, new is easier than listening to them when it's been a few months of biting your tongue and fighting back some of your natural attack instincts.
But, Trump has shown -- both on Tuesday night and over the past week or so -- an ability to reign himself in that suggests he understands that this new and improved version of himself is the one that can actually win the Republican presidential nomination.
Be scared, anti-Trump forces. Be very scared.
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And as Reuters reports, the message appears to be getting through as U.S. Republican officials began meeting on Wednesday, a day after Donald Trump's crushing victory in a New York presidential nominating contest, and said he has been winning growing acceptance within their ranks - but they want to see the billionaire do more to mend fences with the party establishment.

Trump was the focus for the party's spring meeting of 168 Republican National Committee (RNC) members in Hollywood, Florida. The three-day conclave at an oceanside resort will take stock of the race for the White House and prepare for a possible contested convention in July in Cleveland.

The New York real estate mogul's win Tuesday in his home state over rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich was an important milestone for RNC members, who said it could put him on a pathway to acquire the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright without a contested convention.

"There are a fair number of RNC members who were discounting his chances of success when we met in January and now see that he’s building a substantial lead and may in fact get to 1,237 before we get to the convention," said Steve Duprey, an RNC member from New Hampshire.

"The New York results were such an overwhelming win," Duprey said. "It's impressive. That's what I've heard people talking about."

Trump, Cruz and Kasich all sent envoys to the meeting to explain their pathways to the nomination.

South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Matt Moore said Trump's recent hiring of Rick Wiley, a Republican veteran who was former presidential candidate Scott Walker's campaign manager, was a good sign.

"It’s a positive signal despite a lack of general outreach over the past year, and I think the Trump campaign, for all the bluster, recognizes that the RNC will be an integral partner if he is the nominee and it’ll be almost impossible to win the presidency without the RNC as a partner," Moore said.

In a good sign for Trump, there appeared to be no significant move by the Republican leadership, at least at this meeting, to change the rules governing the convention. There has been talk of rewriting the rules in a way that could benefit an establishment-backed candidate like Kasich.

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