Subject: More and More (and More) Republicans and Conservative Commentators Reject Trump’s Unpredictable, Risky and Divisive Candidacy
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:56:45 -0400
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*​More and More (and More) Republicans and Conservative Commentators Reject
Trump’s Unpredictable, Risky and Divisive Candidacy*

Today marks one full week of Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican
nominee for president. The reviews are in, and they aren't good: for 7 days
now, prominent Republican elected officials and candidates, political
consultants and strategists, and conservative pundits and columnists have
continued to outright reject or distance themselves from Trump's candidacy
and his risky, divisive comments and policies. Donald Trump has for years
proven himself to be a loose cannon whose hateful language and dangerous
policies will do serious harm to working families and put America’s
security at risk, and now even Republicans are acknowledging that Trump is
too big a risk.

*Read the growing list
<https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/updates/2016/05/04/conservatives-rebuke-trump-as-he-captures-republican-nomination/>
of Republicans unwilling to support a President Donald Trump and fresh
condemnations of Trump:*

*Michael Gerson, conservative commentator*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-victory-inspires-lunacy-in-high-places/2016/05/09/16048aa2-160b-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html>:
"Those who support Trump, no matter how reluctantly, have crossed a moral
boundary. They are standing with a leader who encourages prejudice and
despises the weak. They are aiding the transformation of a party formed by
Lincoln’s blazing vision of equality into a party of white resentment."

*Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal columnist
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-the-conservative-hope-1462833870>:*
"What isn’t survivable is a Republican president who is part Know Nothing,
part Smoot-Hawley and part John Birch. The stain of a Trump administration
would cripple the conservative cause for a generation."

*John Weaver, Chief Strategist for John Kasich*
<http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/05/a_qa_with_john_weaver_chief_st.html>:
On working for Trump: "Under no circumstances. I'm an American first. And I
don't want to elaborate on that." On whether Kasich would be Trump's VP:
"Under no circumstances. ... If you're the kind of conservative who
believes that everyone matters, that this is about uniting ... where does
that fit into what Donald Trump has said?"

*Mac Stipanovich, former Chief of Staff to Gov. Bob Martinez*
<http://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477301472/republican-backlash-continues-to-build-against-donald-trump>:
"Let's talk about his pledge to deport 12 million illegal aliens. Anybody
who believes that the United States of America is going to round up,
transport, guard, house, feed and deport 12 million people, twice as many
as Stalin managed to deport in 30 years of trying, is a fool."

*Paul Singer, "GOP Megadonor"
<http://www.nationalreview.com/www.nationalreview.com/Republican-Megadonor-Paul-Singer-Denounces-Donald-Trump>:
"*said Monday evening that conservatives must “stand up for what we
believe, which is not embodied by either choice on the menu in November.”"

*Deborah DeMoss Fonseca, spokeswoman for Conservatives Against Trump
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/05/09/republicans-mount-controversial-third-party-bid-defeat-donald-trump/BsCzKFifQc5zWd87RspJsJ/story.html>*:
"To those Trumpsters who are criticizing us and saying we have a duty to
vote for the Republican Party, I would say, at what cost?”

*Ohio Auditor Dave Yost
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/06/what-ohio-republicans-are-saying-about-trump.html>:
*"an early resident of the never-Trump camp, took to Facebook to express
his disappointment, writing of the New Yorker's 'utter lack of principled
convictions.'"

*Senator Marco Rubio [R-FL]
<https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/729775605458341888>*: "While
Republican voters have chosen Donald Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee,
my previously stated reservations about his campaign and concerns with many
of his policies remain unchanged."

*Speaker Paul Ryan [R-WI]*
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/ryan-says-he-would-step-down-as-convention-chair-if-trump-asks-b99721843z1-378661491.html>:
"We have right now a disunified Republican Party. We shouldn't sweep it
under the rug without addressing it. That would be to our detriment in the
fall."

*Rep. Martha McSally [R-AZ]
<http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2016/05/09/mcsally-isnt-ready-to-endorse-donald-trump/>*:
"McSally said she’s not ready to endorse the presumptive nominee just as
yet."

*Washington Post: Donald Trump is terrible. Good thing there’s this
‘nominee’ guy!
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/05/09/donald-trump-is-terrible-good-thing-theres-this-nominee-guy/>*:
"But fortunately for senators in tough, competitive seats, there is another
option. You don’t have to endorse Trump. You can just support the Nominee
of the Party. These are not the same thing at all! They are quite
different. The Nominee is everything Trump isn’t."

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For Immediate Release, May 10, 2016
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