Donald Trump

According to the candidate's plan, the tax rate for the wealthiest people in the country would drop from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. But he said that would likely change. "On my plan, they're going down. But by the time it's negotiated, they'll go up," Trump said.

I think electing Donald Trump would be the second-worst thing we could do this November, better only than electing Hillary Clinton to serve as the third term for the Obama administration’s radical policies. I am not pretending that Mr. Trump has suddenly become a conservative champion or even a reliable Republican: He is completely unpredictable. The problem is that Hillary is predictably liberal.

The most important step in the campaign to govern America according to conservative principles is to turnout conservatives in Republican primaries to defeat RINOs and nominate conservatives for every office, especially Congress and state legislator. Which is why Donald Trump's remark that voters should stay home from the West Virginia Republican Primary infuriated Mountain State conservatives and proved he still has a lot to learn about leading an issues-based political party.

Many conservatives want Donald Trump to prove he’ll govern as a conservative before they’ll unquestionably support him. Plus, The Bush family’s refusal to back Trump is a win-win for both sides; Mitt Romney as the Independent White Knight? You can’t be serious, and, Sarah Palin takes her name off the table for Trump’s VP.

The Bushes have many fine qualities. Losing well, however, is not one of them. And they have to know, whether they concede it or not, that Trump’s triumph is a sweeping repudiation of Bush Republicanism by the same party that nominated them four times for the presidency.

Mitt Romney said at a dinner in Washington on Thursday night that he had no intention of supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and said he was "dismayed" by what he saw as a drift toward "demagoguery and populism" in both parties.

Donald Trump faces an unforgiving electoral map as he seeks to win the White House.Yet there is a plausible path to victory for the businessman over likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, if he is able to repair his image among key voting blocs such as Hispanics.

While Trump has stated that there is a 40% chance that he will pick his VP among his 16 defeated opponents, the fact that he’s also considering a Democrat for VP only lends weight to everything those 16 opponents had said about him at one point in time, and only solidifies the claims of the Never Trump movement.

Senator Ben Sasse, a principled limited government constitutional conservative if there ever was one, asks why are Americans faced with the choice of #NeverHillary or #NeverTrump. Sasse says there is room – indeed an appetite – for an alternative candidate. What say you?

#NeverTrump people don’t need to abandon their principles but they do have to at least be open to changing their minds. Plus, (WWTCD?) What would Ted Cruz do?; Rush Limbaugh sees a future with Trump in the White House, and, Paul Ryan’s wavering on whether to support Trump.

Richard Viguerie believes unity is indispensable to winning, but he said another quality is needed that he believes Trump has in abundance. “He must be a fighter, and he must have a vice president who is also a fighter. If you bring the fight to the Democrats, this election is eminently winnable,” said Viguerie, who believes Hillary Clinton is a ripe target given her current strategy.

Culture matters.  Withdrawing from it is no answer.  If you want to change the future of the country, you need to engage the culture and not just expect that the kinds of citizens who vote for your values can be summoned from the hills.

Because Trump and Clinton bring to the 2016 race many similar characteristics that have traditionally been considered negative, the two New Yorkers may struggle to launch conventional attacks on each other.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley no longer seems to be concerned about the possibility of Donald Trump nominating justices to the Supreme Court. “Based upon the type of people he’d be looking for, I think I would expect the right type of people to be nominated by him to the Supreme Court,” the Iowa Republican told The Des Moines Register in an interview published Wednesday evening.

Donald Trump, now the presumptive GOP nominee, doesn't seem to be planning to change his tone heading into the general election. "I am who I am," he said on CNN Wednesday. "I don't like to change."

The Obama Department of Justice has announced that North Carolina’s new law that protects women and children from potential sexual predators in public rest rooms violates the civil rights of “gender fluid” individuals.

Ted Cruz's announcement that he is suspending his campaign after his loss in Indiana means Donald Trump will likely hit 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention, making him the presumptive Republican nominee. Where do you stand on Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for President? Are you #NeverHillary or #NeverTrump?  

CHQ's endorsed candidate for the open Senate seat in Florida, Congressman Ron DeSantis, yesterday issued a strong statement calling for Republican unity behind Donald Trump. In a state that fielded two of Trump's competitors in the GOP primaries DeSantis' statement took some guts, especially given that one of his earliest and biggest backers - the Club for Growth - have been leaders of the #NeverTrump movement.

Donald Trump owes his critical win in Indiana on Tuesday night to flag waving protestors at his rallies in California. Plus, The establishment wants you to believe Ted Cruz was just a niche candidate. He wasn’t.; John Kasich loses heart, withdraws from the race too, and, Mark Levin lashes out at Fox News for Trump bias.

At the very least, Trump owes it to the country he boasts he will "make great again" to try to demonstrate some seriousness about the office he seeks. He owes this even to those who will never consider voting for him. He can start by swearing off grand displays of aggressive and apparently deliberate ignorance.