Election 2016: Donald Trump Currying Favor Among Republican Elite, Donors
Republican donors this week began opening their wallets for presumptive nominee Donald Trump, warming to the upstart candidate to increase the odds of defeating presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton come November.
Trump’s conservative credentials were burnished by the release of his list of 11 possible Supreme Court nominees, getting a thumbs-up from House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has yet to declare unequivocally he will support the New York real estate mogul amid lingering concerns over Trump’s shifting stands on issues.