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Trump Reassures Donors He Won't Try to Oust Ryan or McConnell
Coal industry executives Joe and Kelly Craft say they're pleased with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s promise to keep party leaders in their jobs.
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Donald Trump has pitched himself as an insurgent who will upend Washington, but he is privately telling big donors that he’s committed to keeping the two most senior establishment Republicans in their congressional leadership posts.
Trump’s pledge that he won’t try to oust House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was a key factor in the decision by coal industry executives Joe and Kelly Craft to raise money for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, they say.