Posted on 04/28/2016 1:17:01 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday won endorsements from two more U.S. Congress members as he battled to be his party's nominee.
Of the 300 Republicans in Congress - 246 in the House of Representatives and 54 in the Senate - Trump now had the explicit support of 11 with the newly announced public backing by Representatives Jeff Miller of Florida and Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania.
Trump, a billionaire businessman, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich were vying for the nomination to represent the Republican Party in the Nov. 8 general election.
"Donald Trump is the only person who has what it takes to shake up the status quo and entrenched bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.," Miller said in a statement.
Miller, who will retire from the Republican-controlled Congress at year's end, capping 16 years in the House, has chaired the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Shuster, also in his 16th year in the House, has chaired a powerful transportation committee.
Trump backers in Congress have argued that many more lawmakers privately expressed support for Trump, but still have to run in primaries and so have publicly remained neutral.
Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, who endorsed Trump this month, said in an interview that the Trump campaign was cranking up its outreach to Congress.
Cruz, a small-government Tea Party favorite, has snared more endorsements from Congress members.
The most prominent U.S. Republican lawmakers to publicly endorse Trump was Senator Jeff Sessions, who has been advising the campaign on foreign policy.
The others were U.S. Representatives Chris Collins, Duncan Hunter, Tom Marino, Tom Reed, Scott DesJarlais, Lou Barletta and Renee Ellmers.
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Ideologue is not a label. You have yet to answer my question posed to you several times. Who defines conservatism for you?
Disagree, it is a label.
Ronald Reagan is the nearest thing to true conservative that I have seen in my lifetime, and, as such, is my standard to compare against.
And where Reagan fell short was because he never had both houses of Congress at the same time, so he had to prioritize his goals.
Ideologue is non=partisan. You can be a conservative or a liberal and be an ideologue.
I said he was the closest to a pure conservative, but not perfect. He had not been a democrat for quite a while, and championed many of the ideas of Goldwater, another strong conservative (who was before my time).
As opposed to what? A cooperative Congress who rubber stamps any and all things detrimental to the USA that obama wants?
President Trump will take it to the people like Reagan had to.
It will no longer be business as usual, because We the People will not allow it.
It is as simple, and as complex as that.
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