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Saturday 23 January 2016
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Trump, Republican leaders realizing they may need each other
JULIE PACE “I’m a dealmaker who will Willie Robertson, right, welcomes Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the stage
STEVE PEOPLES get things done,” he said during the Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel’s 16th annual Outdoor Sportsman Awards on
Associated Press Thursday during an event Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Las Vegas.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — in Las Vegas. “There’s a
Donald Trump and some point at which — let’s get (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
mainstream U.S. Repub- to be a little establishment.
licans are engaged in a We got to get things done, the Republican establish- Much of the mainstream more likely to try to upend
long-distance flirtation. folks, OK?” ment. Sarah Palin, the for- Republican reckoning with the web of lobbyists, do-
Both sides are coming to However, the establish- mer Alaska governor and a Trump is rooted in deep nors and other powerbro-
the realization that they’ll ment’s growing accep- favorite of the tea party in- disdain for Texas Sen. Ted kers who have long wield-
need each other if the bil- tance of Trump’s electoral surgency, announced her Cruz, the businessman’s ed enormous influence in
lionaire businessman be- prospects so far hasn’t support for him on Tuesday. closest rival. Cruz is seen as the Republican Party. q
comes the party’s presi- manifested itself in tangible
dential nominee. support for his campaign.
The Republican establish- The real estate mogul has
ment is no fonder of Trump not been endorsed by any
than when he first roiled congressional lawmak-
the campaign last sum- ers or governors, nor are
mer with his controversial there any indications of a
comments about immi- big wave of major donors
grants and women. But planning to get involved
with voting beginning in with his campaign, despite
just over a week, his dura- Trump’s assertion that he’s
bility atop preference polls received “so many calls”
has pushed some donors, from wealthy and influen-
strategists and party elders tial Republicans.
to grudgingly accept the If anything, the most visible
prospect of his winning the signs of support for Trump’s
nomination. campaign in recent days
“We’d better stop hop- have come from those who
ing for something else and see themselves as outside
accept the possibility that
he’s our nominee and be Clinton faces challenge in Iowa reminiscent of 2008
prepared to rally around
him if that’s the case,” said KEN THOMAS Sound familiar? With 10 in her second presidential and an escalation of her
Fred Malek, a top Republi- LISA LERER days left before Iowa’s bid. On the Republican critiques of Sanders’ record
can presidential fundraiser. Associated Press lead-off caucuses, Clinton side, businessman Donald and message might under-
Bob Dole, the 1996 Repub- WASHINGTON (AP) — Re- finds herself in a heated Trump currently leads most cut his momentum.
lican nominee who repre- call this 2008 storyline: Hill- contest against insurgent polls but is facing a strong Yet there may be a silver
sented Kansas in the House ary Clinton enters the U.S. rival Bernie Sanders remi- challenge from Texas Sen. lining for Clinton’s 2016
and Senate for decades, presidential campaign niscent of her 2008 face- Ted Cruz and others. campaign: Unlike Obama,
said of Trump: “He’s got as the Democratic front- off with then-Sen. Barack Clinton lost Iowa in 2008, a Sanders is a self-described
this personality where I do runner, runs into an inspi- Obama. The Vermont setback that she never fully “democratic socialist” and
believe he could work with rational candidate who senator has soared to a recovered from against has done little to expand
Congress.” generates big crowds and nip-and-tuck race in Iowa Obama, who went on to his support beyond white
Trump, too, has started to enthusiasm. And she winds and holds an advantage win the White House. This liberal voters who populate
suggest that he’d look for up in a dogfight in the first in New Hampshire, putting time she hopes a larger the first two presidential
ways to work with Republi- voting state, Iowa. Clinton back on the brink field organization in Iowa contests.q
can leaders if he wins.
