Turns Out Trump Has Always Liked Susana Martinez
Source: RollCall
Donald Trump has a new message for Susana Martinez, the Republican New Mexico governor he slammed in front of a home state crowd last month for not doing her job: Actually, he thinks she's pretty great.
Trump would now like Martinez's endorsement, he said Thursday in a phone interview with a New Mexico newspaper reporter, signaling a truce in a public spat with the country's only Latina governor and chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association that had raised questions about Trump's desire to unify the party.
I respect her. I have always liked her, he told the newspaper, The Santa Fe New Mexican.
The reversal comes after Martinez made her own gesture of rapprochement. She said in a television interview that, in spite of her criticism of Trump's stance on Mexican immigrants, she remained open to endorsing him.
It also coincided with the taming of Trump's most powerful critics within the party. House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Thursday that he would no longer withhold his support for the party's presumptive nominee . And a fervent effort to recruit an independent candidate who could rival Trump fizzled with the naming of relatively unknown lawyer David French .
Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/donald-trump-susana-martinez-like-respect-endorsement
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)I don't think there is anything he will not reverse himself on.
It is not that his principals and ethics are bad.
He has not principals or ethics, and will say anything to get elected, then say the opposite to get elected.
Some people talk out of both sides of their mouths. Trump has redefined how many sides a mouth can have.
question everything
(47,479 posts)Just run the pair of "before" and "after."
Tal Vez
(660 posts)And they all love him!
Gene Debs
(582 posts)Yavin4
(35,438 posts)Trump's next wife probably hasn't even been conceived yet.
Thanks for giving me my first laugh of the day!!
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Actually, I don't think her parents have even been conceived yet.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)He wants the pool of choices as large as possible.
Warpy
(111,261 posts)and he had a snot slinging tantrum over it.
Martinez is undoubtedly being pressured by every Republican wonk out there to give tribute, er, her endorsement.