If you thought 'Never Trump' was dead, think again
Wednesday 22 June 2016 11.48 EDT
Jamie Weinstein
... House speaker, Paul Ryan, who tepidly endorsed Trump earlier this month, intimated on Sunday that he only backed The Donald for institutional reasons and that Republicans should vote according their conscience, even if their conscience tells them to oppose the presumptive Republican presidential nominee ...
Wisconsin Republican senator Ron Johnson, who has yet to endorse Trump, said on Sunday he isnt even sure Trump will be the Republican nominee ...
According to the CNN-ORC poll released on Tuesday, 48% of Republicans say they wish someone other than Trump would be the Republican nominee ...
... there is nothing Trump can do to bring back the stalwart Never Trumpers into his camp because he has already shown who he is as a person and a candidate. Trump could pick Ronald Reagans ghost as his vice-president and not win over a single Never Trumper, because there is little evidence Trump listens to anybody other than his volatile and uneducated gut ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/22/never-donald-trump-campaign-turmoil-republicans