Robert Applegate IV was born in a small town in Rhode Island and was raised conservative by his parents. He majored in journalism in the prestigious Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism at the University of Southern California with a minor in a minor in political science. He started off working as a writer for the Los Angeles Times right out of college. Here he rose up through the ranks where he became editor in chief. However, he missed living on the East Coast and applied to work at New York Times as an opinion writer. He moved back in late 2012 and since then has been the conservative voice for the New York Times.
Is Trump the End of the Republican Party? By Robert Applegate IV AS July draws closer and closer, …show more content…
Is this really the end of the Republican Party? During my time with Ronald Reagan as his speechwriter, there were many devout followers and outlandish ideas being passed around but none like what is here today. We have people who will die to get Trump into office and we have people who will do everything in their power to keep him out. This is going to bring the end of the Republican Party as we know it. Trump has finally clinched the Republican nomination by receiving the required 1237 delegates to be get the nomination. However, delegates can flop votes and the party, if needed, could deny Donald Trump the nomination. This would cause just the same amount of problems for them as it would be having Trump nominated as Republican candidate. There are too many supporters on either side of this candidate to have this election be a clean one. On one side, if Trump is elected republican nominee for the greatest office in the land, half of the party won’t vote for him in the general and they will flop sides to vote for the Democrats, who in my eyes are not much better than …show more content…
They don’t have to waste their own time and money on attack ads since people like, Paul Ryan, the current Speaker of the House, constantly attack Trump, trying to bring him down even though they share the same party. He says that he will use all of his power to ensure that Trump doesn’t represent the republicans come November. The Democrats see this as an opportunity because Ryan is a high ranking republican leader and has a high following so when he makes these attacks on the presumptive Republican nominee, it tears apart the party. I believe to keep the party in tact: 1. Somehow, someway the republican party is going to need to convince Trump to tone his language down and 2. The party is going to need to rally around Trump come November so that the party will survive. Trump is a very outspoken person but for the party to come around him and give them their full support, he is going to need to tone down his rhetoric to ensure the longevity of the Republican
Is Trump the End of the Republican Party? By Robert Applegate IV AS July draws closer and closer, …show more content…
Is this really the end of the Republican Party? During my time with Ronald Reagan as his speechwriter, there were many devout followers and outlandish ideas being passed around but none like what is here today. We have people who will die to get Trump into office and we have people who will do everything in their power to keep him out. This is going to bring the end of the Republican Party as we know it. Trump has finally clinched the Republican nomination by receiving the required 1237 delegates to be get the nomination. However, delegates can flop votes and the party, if needed, could deny Donald Trump the nomination. This would cause just the same amount of problems for them as it would be having Trump nominated as Republican candidate. There are too many supporters on either side of this candidate to have this election be a clean one. On one side, if Trump is elected republican nominee for the greatest office in the land, half of the party won’t vote for him in the general and they will flop sides to vote for the Democrats, who in my eyes are not much better than …show more content…
They don’t have to waste their own time and money on attack ads since people like, Paul Ryan, the current Speaker of the House, constantly attack Trump, trying to bring him down even though they share the same party. He says that he will use all of his power to ensure that Trump doesn’t represent the republicans come November. The Democrats see this as an opportunity because Ryan is a high ranking republican leader and has a high following so when he makes these attacks on the presumptive Republican nominee, it tears apart the party. I believe to keep the party in tact: 1. Somehow, someway the republican party is going to need to convince Trump to tone his language down and 2. The party is going to need to rally around Trump come November so that the party will survive. Trump is a very outspoken person but for the party to come around him and give them their full support, he is going to need to tone down his rhetoric to ensure the longevity of the Republican