Dump Trump, Romney tells Republicans
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FRONT-RUNNING Donald Trump came under a brutal attack yesterday from former presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who called the billionaire New York businessman a phony and called on fellow Republicans to shun the brash real estate mogul for the good of the country and party.
The race for the Republican nomination, dominated by insults and name-calling, has seen Trump’s once-unlikely candidacy morph into an increasingly likely bid for his party’s nomination for the November ballot.
Romney, who was soundly defeated by President Barack Obama in his 2012 re-election, joins a growing chorus of anxious Republican leaders that many Trump supporters see as establishment figures.
“Here’s what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud,” Romney said in the text of a speech to be delivered later yesterday. Romney says a Trump nomination at the party’s convention in July would enable Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the presidency.
Romney also said Trump “has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president.”
Trump disparaged Romney in a series of tweets, including “I am not a Mitt Romney, who doesn’t know how to win.”
Panicked Republican leaders say they still have options for preventing Trump from winning the nomination, just not many good ones. They include a contested convention and even the long-shot prospect of a third party option.
Trump has 316 delegates so far, Texas Senator Ted Cruz 226 and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, 106. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the party nomination.
Despite Trump’s strong showing on Tuesday, he was not yet on track to claim the nomination before the party’s national gathering. He has won 46 percent of the delegates awarded so far, and he would have to increase that to 51 percent in the remaining primaries.
Trump has reached out to House Speaker Paul Ryan for a conversation between the two men and urged Republican leaders to view his candidacy as a chance to expand the party.
“Why can’t the leaders of the Republican Party see that I am bringing in new voters by the millions — we are creating a larger, stronger party!” Trump tweeted.
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