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Rick Scott calls for Republicans to Rally behind Donald Trump

<p>Florida Governor Rick Scott has called on the GOP Party to unite around Donald Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Republicans now need to come together&period; Donald Trump is going to be our nominee&comma; and he is going to be on the ballot as the Republican candidate for President&comma;&rdquo&semi; stated Rick Scott&comma; one of few powerful Republicans urging his party to get over their qualms about the billionaire candidate&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;&hellip&semi;Washington did not choose him&comma; but the Republican voters across America did choose him&period; The voters have spoken&comma;&rdquo&semi; he continued&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Senate and House Republicans finally seem to be warming up to the voters&rsquo&semi; favorite candidate&period; Rather than continue to fight Trump&rsquo&semi;s unpredictability&comma; lack of discipline&comma; and questionable policies&comma; many Republicans say it&&num;8217&semi;s time to embrace the candidate who will likely become the party&rsquo&semi;s standard-bearer&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As Rick Scott explained&comma; continued opposition to Trump will do nothing but lend support to Hillary Clinton should the two face off in the general election this fall&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s time for the &num;StopTrump movement to end&period; Yesterday&rsquo&semi;s election results show that the anti-Trump efforts didn&rsquo&semi;t work&comma;&rdquo&semi; Scott posted on Facebook in the wake of last week&rsquo&semi;s primaries&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;The damage that President Obama has done to our country is serious and substantial&period; We cannot afford another four years of liberal incompetence&comma; and that is exactly what Hillary Clinton would bring&period; We&rsquo&semi;ve had an extensive debate amongst ourselves&comma; it is now time to get serious about winning in November&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the wake of Trump&rsquo&semi;s successful foreign policy speech in Washington this week&comma; Ted Cruz supporter Mark Sanford &lpar;R-SC&rpar; says&comma; &ldquo&semi;Many of us who have expressed concerns are reconciling ourselves to the fact that in all likelihood he will be the eventual nominee&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tennessee Senator Bob Corker says that having a president feared by other world leaders could be a good thing&period; &ldquo&semi;I did say to my staff that is somewhat of a welcome change&comma;&rdquo&semi; he said with a laugh&period; &ldquo&semi;There is some good that comes with that&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Utah Senator Orrin Hatch plans to do everything in his power to help Trump should be become America&rsquo&semi;s next president&period; &ldquo&semi;I think he can be great if he&rsquo&semi;ll get serious about being president &ndash&semi; and I think he will&period; He&rsquo&semi;s a clever&comma; smart guy who will want to be remembered for doing great things&period; I have a feeling he can make that transition&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many of the conservatives who aren&rsquo&semi;t ready to endorse Trump publically have privately admitted they don&rsquo&semi;t want to criticize him&period; The fact remains that unless the Republican party can solidify behind one candidate &ndash&semi; ideally the one America&rsquo&semi;s voters have chosen &ndash&semi; they have no way to stop Hillary Clinton from taking the White House&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>And even those who dislike Trump would rather see him as president than Hillary&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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