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The Anti-Trump Republicans: Ryan, Bush, Romney, & Graham

<p>Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan have both admitted they aren&rsquo&semi;t ready to accept the other&rsquo&semi;s agenda&period; But Ryan isn&rsquo&semi;t the only powerful Republican hesitant&comma; scared&comma; or unwilling to accept the gregarious celebrity mogul as our standard bearer&period; &nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jeb Bush&comma; who previously signed a pledge to support the GOP nominee&comma; has since announced that he will not be attending the convention in Cleveland this summer&period; Trump doesn&rsquo&semi;t seem to care&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;I&rsquo&semi;m not a fan of Jeb and he said he was not going to come to the convention&period; Who cares&quest; You know how many votes I&rsquo&semi;m gonna lose because of Jeb not coming to the convention&quest; I think I&rsquo&semi;ll gain votes&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney&comma; who has been highly critical of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump&comma; will also be absent this July&period; Rumor has it he&rsquo&semi;s being courted to run as an Independent&comma; which in my opinion would do little more than ensure a Clinton victory&period;&nbsp&semi;Romney&comma; who has sided with the &num;NeverTrump movement&comma; says he won&rsquo&semi;t be supporting &ldquo&semi;either of the major party candidates at this point&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;I see way too much demagoguery and populism on both sides of the aisle&comma; and I only hope and aspire that we&rsquo&semi;ll see more greatness&comma;&rdquo&semi; he says&comma; adding that he will not be entering the race as an Independent&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;I&rsquo&semi;m certainly going to be hoping we find someone who I have confidence in who becomes the nominee&period;&rdquo&semi; Romney praised Paul Ryan for not supporting Trump&comma; noting&nbsp&semi;that he would love to see him run for president but that it is vital he remains Speaker during this turbulent time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is in the same camp&comma; saying he cannot &ldquo&semi;in good conscience&rdquo&semi; vote for Donald Trump&period; &ldquo&semi;I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to serve as Commander in Chief&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;Trump and Graham has a spat last year after Trump gave out the Senator&rsquo&semi;s phone number and Graham retorted by calling him a &ldquo&semi;jackass&rdquo&semi; on CBS and posting a sarcastic &ldquo&semi;how to destroy your phone&rdquo&semi; video on Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Graham adds that he will not be attending this summer&rsquo&semi;s convention&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaker Paul Ryan is the sole &ldquo&semi;anti-Trump&rdquo&semi; Republican mentioned here who hopes to eventually support the billionaire candidate&period; &ldquo&semi;I&rsquo&semi;m not there right now and I hope to be there and I want to&hellip&semi;the bulk of the burden of unifying the Party will have to come from our presumptive nominee&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump replied to Ryan&&num;8217&semi;s comment by saying virtually the same thing about the Speaker&colon; &ldquo&semi;I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan&rsquo&semi;s agenda&period; Perhaps in the future we can work together and come to an agreement about what is best for the American people&hellip&semi;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; RNC&nbsp&semi;Chairman Reince Priebus has decided to broker a meeting between the two to help them &&num;8220&semi;play nice&period;&&num;8221&semi; The meeting is scheduled to take place this Wednesday in DC&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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