Subject: Fwd: 'Swooning' In Secret? Where's Toomey's Straight Talk On Trump?
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 14:00:41 -0700

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From: Preston Maddock <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 12, 2016 at 4:33:01 PM EDT
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Subject: 'Swooning' In Secret? Where's Toomey's Straight Talk On Trump?
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Senator Pat Toomey is no stranger to awkward encounters. In the past week, he has run<http://act.padems.com/page/m/5dcdb8fe/2d698ac4/34743e9e/4750781f/986816412/VEsH/> and hidden<http://act.padems.com/page/m/5dcdb8fe/2d698ac4/34743e9e/47507818/986816412/VEsE/> from reporters when met with questions about months of unequivocally stating<http://act.padems.com/page/m/5dcdb8fe/2d698ac4/34743e9e/4750781d/986816412/VEsF/> that he would support whomever becomes the Republican nominee -- even Donald Trump.

With that political reality setting in, and Republican Party leaders “swooning” over their nominee after meeting with him on the Hill today, Toomey is in a political no-man’s land. He is one of Mitch McConnell’s most loyal partisans, has never stood up to Trump during the presidential primary, and yet he is acutely aware that the Trump-Toomey ticket is catastrophic to his re-election.

It’s one thing to think Donald Trump is fit to lead your party, but it’s even worse to mislead your constituents about it. When is Toomey going to follow his colleagues' lead and come clean with Pennsylvanians on his support for the disastrous GOP nominee?

TPM: GOP Senators Swoon Over Donald Trump After Hill Meeting<http://act.padems.com/page/m/5dcdb8fe/2d698ac4/34743e9e/4750781c/986816412/VEsC/>

After Donald Trump's much-ballyhooed trip Thursday to Capitol Hill, some Republican senators present in his meeting with GOP Senate leadership praised him for his willingness to "listen" behind closed doors.

… "I've always been impressed, but I was really impressed today," Hatch said.

… "He is actually a pretty affable guy, much different than sort of the public demeanor, but it must be working for him," Cornyn said.

Trump met with Hatch, Cornyn, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and other prominent GOP senators at the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee offices a few blocks from the Capitol. The meeting lasted about an hour. Outside a group of anti-Trump protesters chanted and sang. Earlier in the morning Trump also met with Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), and other House leaders at the RNC headquarters.

The Kumbaya moment comes as some Republican lawmakers, including Ryan, balked at supporting him outright after he emerged the GOP nominee last week.

But the words "positive" and "productive" were lobbed frequently by senators to describe Thursday's pow-wow.

"It was a very gracious and positive meeting and I already feel pretty good about it, but I feel even better,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, who, as the NRSC chair, attended the Trump meeting.

“It was a good back and forth,” he told reporters afterward.

… There was "some peripheral discussion" of Trump's proposal to ban Muslim immigration, Hatch said, adding, "but I can’t remember what was said."

But more generally, those present said they weren't too concerned about Trump's rhetoric.

"He doesn't have to [change his tone]," Hatch said, "because the whole discussion was very solid."

Read the full article here<http://act.padems.com/page/m/5dcdb8fe/2d698ac4/34743e9e/4750781c/986816412/VEsD/>.

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