Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough criticized the Republican Party establishment for its track record in selecting which candidate to line up behind in a Republican Party primary. Scarborough specifically focused on establishment’s apparent decision to line up
Andy McCarthy, senior fellow at National Review and former Assistant U.S. Attorney, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to make his case that Donald Trump is playing Republican primary voters for “chumps,” because “he is the Establishment” he claims to be running against.
Jeffrey Lord, contributing editor to the American Spectator and a CNN political commentator, joined Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow on Tuesday morning to discuss the race for the Republican presidential nomination between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, talked about the possibility of an open Republican National Convention with host Stephen K. Bannon of Breitbart News Daily on Monday morning.
On the Saturday broadcast of “Justice” on Fox News Channel, host Judge Jeanine Pirro went after the GOP establishment, who she noted is still trying to keep GOP front-runner Donald Trump from getting the nomination. Pirro argued ignoring the people’s votes
Donald Trump, Jr. joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about the “vicious and brutal” fight he anticipates at the Republican National Convention.
Drudge Report editor and Washington Times columnist Charles Hurt tells Breitbart News Daily that Ted Cruz is doing the “work” of the Republican establishment “to prevent Donald Trump from clinching the nomination.”
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” conservative commentator weighed in Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) win in the GOP presidential primary in Wisconsin a night earlier and what that means for his opponent, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
Political strategist Pat Caddell, who hosts the Political Insiders roundtable for Fox News at 7:30 PM Eastern on Sunday nights, joined host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to look at the state of the 2016 primaries on both sides of the aisle.
We’ve heard a lot about how the GOP Establishment is making elaborate plans to steal the nomination from Donald Trump (and Ted Cruz) at the Republican National Convention. (See, for example, Ned Ryun and Pat Caddell’s interviews with Breitbart News Daily last week.)
Stephen Miller, a senior policy advisor for Donald Trump, spoke with host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily about the upcoming Wisconsin primary, where Trump’s rival Senator Ted Cruz is widely seen as surging to a comfortable lead. Miller accused Cruz of misleading voters on some of Trump’s big issues, such as free trade, and said Trump is fighting against a massive effort by the Republican Establishment to shoot down their own front-runner.
Political strategist Pat Caddell, a mainstay of the “Political Insiders” roundtable on Fox Report Sunday, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about the state of the Republican primary race.
A state party staffer from a large Northeastern state passed the entry codes for a conference call of five Republican chairmen from significant states this past Saturday. The topic on the table? Stopping Donald Trump. I had to listen in.
Watching former Speaker of the House John Boehner stagger around, referring to Ted Cruz as the Devil and announcing his endorsement for non-candidate Paul Ryan as President, is a great reminder that this election isn’t really about Donald Trump.
To the extent it’s still standing after yesterday, the Stop Trump movement is comforting itself with the world’s biggest lie: that John Kasich is the embodiment of the Republican Party, while Donald Trump is the bastard stepchild.
Senator Marco Rubio ended his quest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination swaddled in warm feelings, at least from the punditocracy, which hailed his superb final debate performance, a weekend press conference denouncing Donald Trump that became a viral video, and a moving concession speech on Tuesday night after Rubio was crushed in his home state of Florida.
Veteran GOP strategist Mark McKinnon told Breitbart News Daily that the rise of Donald Trump in the 2016 election reflects the fact that for years, the Republican Party “has had no clear vision of the future.” The GOP establishment, he said, “soaked the place in kerosene. All Donald Trump did was light a match.” In this election, “the Republicans are just going to have to burn the house down and rebuild it.”
At a private luncheon in Washington, DC, a group of GOP establishment figures gathered to lament the rise of Donald Trump and discuss what can be done to defeat him. The luncheon was filmed as part of an episode titled “The Reckoning” in the Showtime documentary series “The Circus,” which chronicles the 2016 race for the White House.
After President Jeb, President Walker, President Christie, President Kasich, President Ryan, and President Rubio, the Republican establishment is now turning once again to the Adlai Stevenson of the GOP – Willard Mitt Romney. Perhaps nothing is more symptomatic of the GOP establishment’s death drive than their continued embrace of the presidential aspirations of a man who shrank the party in 2012.
Conventional wisdom attributes much of Donald Trump’s unexpected success in the GOP primary to his stance on immigration.
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Congressman Steve King (R-IA) appeared on Breitbart News Daily Tuesday morning to support Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in today’s crucial primary elections and to warn that the GOP Establishment is determined to punish Trump and Cruz supporters, and they could even tacitly get behind Hillary Clinton as someone “they can do business with” if Cruz or Trump wins the nomination.
Like a gormless gaggle of liberal arts majors, the Republican brass are afraid to leave their “safe space.” Instead, they pick impotently at the probable party nominee in a pretentious fit of post-modernist pique.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told Breitbart News Daily that the GOP establishment is desperate to stop Trump’s candidacy “because they know that if Donald Trump becomes the nominee and ultimately the president of the United States, the days of backroom deals are over.”
From Politico Elis Stokols writes: ATLANTA—When Chris Christie threw his support behind Donald Trump, Washington gasped. But the wall of establishment opposition to Trump’s candidacy had begun cracking days before New Jersey’s governor barreled right through it. From Rep. Duncan
The Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome treatment facilities simply cannot handle the patient load. By Super Tuesday, there will be no beds left and white people wearing Brooks Brothers suits and tassel loafers will be wandering the streets of New York and D.C. with bloodshot eyes.
Establishment Republicans are reckoning with something they thought would never happen: That it might soon be too late to stop Donald Trump.
Rick Klein writes for ABC News: Donald Trump now owns the Republican party. The only question left is whether what’s left of the GOP establishment can winnow the field fast enough to take it back. South Carolina reveals a three-way
The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol is spitting-mad that the Republican Establishment won’t fight. He’s outraged no one will take on Trump. Among others, Kristol names Jeb Bush, George W. Bush, John Kasich, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Dick Cheney. Published
On his Monday show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh speculated on what led Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to take the type of tack he took in Saturday’s debate on CBS, particularly as he attacked former President George W.
Kenneth P. Vogel writes in Politico that members of the GOP’s donor class are “tightening their purse strings out of frustration with their inability to boost their favored candidates, or to slow Donald Trump.”
Throughout the Republican presidential primary, and we still have a very long way to go, the Republican Establishment has revealed itself to be the nastiest, meanest, smallest group of smugs I have ever come across. I honestly didn’t think people
Moderator Megyn Kelly kicked off the last GOP debate before Iowa by describing Donald Trump as “the elephant not in the room,” and then inviting criticism of the absent front-runner.
Donald Trump is a nativist demogogue who attacks racial and religious minorities and heaps praise on authoritarian leaders abroad. He borrows from white nationalists and channels the worst impulses in American life. He’s an opportunist with little connection to the Republican Party or the conservative movement.
If the Republican Party is on the verge of an implosion, Sarah Palin may have been the one who lit the fuse.
Monday at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump addressed the students of the Christian university in a wide-ranging speech that included Trump vowing to protect Christianity. Also during that speech, Trump explained how he would be
HOLLIS, N.H. (AP) — After months of predicting a comeback for their preferred candidates, Republican establishment leaders now concede the first two contests of the presidential race, in Iowa and New Hampshire early next month, are Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s to lose.
Cristina Marcos and Scott Wong report in The Hill that conservatives “ripped the GOP establishment on Wednesday for South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s criticism of Donald Trump.”
Jonathan Martin writes in the New York Times that although the majority of Republican elites are opposed to Sen. Ted Cruz’s candidacy, Cruz “has quietly begun wooing some of the party’s most entrenched donors and officials” who are beginning to see the anti-establishment candidate as the party’s possible “standard-bearer.”
The Republican Establishment has lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections, and a large part of the reason was on display over the weekend when a number of Establishment Republican candidates blasted frontrunner Donald Trump
