Donald Trump news for May 10, 2016

Dead heat: Trump, Clinton tied in 3 swing-state polls [Politico]

Well, so much for the coronation of Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States. Seems that the American people may have something to say about that.

Buckle up for the next six months: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are effectively tied in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday.

Split along lines of gender, race and age, the presumptive Republican nominee and the likely Democratic nominee appear poised for tight battles in those states, though Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders performs better against Trump than Clinton does and is also seen more favorably by voters in all three states. No presidential candidate has won an election since 1960 without winning at least two of the three states.

Tight races, to be sure, but remember, just a week or so ago polls were putting Clinton ahead by commanding figures. Find out how tight the race is now in these states – click here.

Donald Trump winning over Democrats in blue Northeast states [Washington Times]

Wait, what?

Yes, you read that correctly…Trump is winning over Democrats in deep blue states who are fed up with Clinton’s [alleged] illegal behavior and their party’s far-Left agenda, which they believe has cost them jobs, livelihood and opportunity.

Republicans in Washington may be wringing their hands over Donald Trump, but rank-and-file voters are suffering no such qualms, and instead are eagerly embracing the GOP’s presumptive nominee.

Voters who backed Mr. Trump’s opponents in the primary recently told The Washington Times they’re ready to get behind the billionaire businessman. And less than a week after sewing up the nomination, he also appears to be winning some of the independents and Democrats that will be critical to grabbing deep-blue Pennsylvania and Delaware, states that haven’t voted for a Republican president in a generation. Read on, here.

Carson wants to meet with Ryan before Trump does [Washington Examiner]

Dr. Ben Carson, who sat atop the crowded GOP presidential field for a while last fall, looks to be playing peacemaker between Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Carson has requested a meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan before the presumptive GOP nominee sits down with the congressional leader later this week, according to a report.

The retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate asked Ryan’s office for a private get-together in an attempt to improve relations between the two before the New York businessman sits down with Ryan Thursday.

“Donald Trump trusts him and the speaker trusts him,” Carson’s business manager, Armstrong Williams, told the Washington Post. Click here for the full story.

Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by a huge margin [Military Times]

From the outset, Donald Trump has not only praised America’s armed forces, but has pledged to support them and rebuild them following years of budgetary neglect by the Obama administration. And it shows.

In a new survey of American military personnel, Donald Trump emerged as active-duty service members’ preference to become the next U.S. president, topping Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin. However, in the latest Military Times election survey, more than one in five troops said they’d rather not vote in November if they have to choose between just those two candidates.

So, Trump has some work to do to convince the one-in-five who have not yet decided to back him, but he’s off to a good start. Read the full story here.

Who Promoted Private Ryan? [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]

Here, columnist and longtime political pundit Patrick J. Buchanan takes Speaker Paul Ryan to task for failing, thus far, to jump on the Trump Train.

Ryan is a congressman from Wisconsin. He has never won a statewide election. As number two on Mitt Romney’s ticket, he got waxed by Joe Biden. He was compromise choice as speaker, only after John Boehner went into in his Brer Rabbit “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah” routine.

Who made Ryan the conscience of conservatism?

Who made Ryan keeper of the keys of true Republicanism?

Trump “inherits something … that’s very special to a lot of us,” said Ryan, “the party of Lincoln and Reagan and Jack Kemp.”

But Trump did not “inherit” anything. He won the nomination of the Republican Party in an epic battle in the most wide-open race ever, in which Trump generated the largest turnout and greatest vote totals in the history of Republican primaries. Read on, here.