After the high profile handshake with Donald Trump a few months ago, everybody figured the Romney campaign would wash their hands of this 80s era clown. So why the high profile fundraiser with him as host tonight? And just as Trump is doubling down on his claims that President Obama is a Kenyan immigrant? Read More
They’re voting down in Texas today, where the race to watch is the GOP primary for U.S. Senate.
TPM Reader WB, on Romney’s winks and nods to GOP extremists
Do you think Romney will be able to get away with just sort of walking away from Trump without rebuking him? I guess I’m wondering more generally how Mitt negotiates the whole “birther” issue as well as some of the other looney stuff out there right now. I have to believe these issues are a potential minefield for him.
Stephanie Cutter: “Mitt Romney’s continued embrace of Donald Trump and refusal to condemn his disgraceful conspiracy theories demonstrates his complete lack of moral leadership.”
This just happened:
BLITZER: Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.
TRUMP: You are, Wolf. Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you’d ask me a question and let me answer it.
For no other reason other than that it’s so awesome: President Obama awarding Bob Dylan the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Video after the jump … Read More
A short while ago, hours before a major fundraiser he’s hosting for Mitt Romney, Donald Trump went on Wolf Blitzer’s show to triple down on birtherism and explain to Wolf how Obama was using “reverse psychology” on him on the birther issue.
Romney appears unable or unwilling to say anything negative or disassociate himself in any way from Trump’s remarks.