Trumps bags major endorsements

Republican presidential front- runner Donald Trump has netted three major endorsements, including from two House committee chairmen, signalling that the party leadership is warming to the real estate tycoon.
"An aura of inevitability is now forming around the controversial mogul," The Washington Post said after Trump, 69, was endorsed by two House Republican committee chairmen, Bill Shuster and Jeff Miller.
Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight also threw his support behind Trump's presidential campaign, less than a week before Indiana voters go to the polls in the state's primary.
News reports said more rank-and-file Republicans are expected to follow suit, including longtime Republican lawmaker John Duncan.

"Establishment Republicans are warming to the idea of Donald Trump as the GOP standard-bearer," The Hill reported.
"The realisation is that Donald Trump is going to be our nominee. We're coming to the end of the process; it's time to unite the party and take on Hillary," Trump supporter Tom Reed was quoted as saying by The Hill.

After this Tuesday's primary elections, Trump is now way ahead of his other rivals in terms of delegate count and is about 250 delegates short of the magical figure of 1,237 delegates, which is necessary for him to be the party's presidential nominee.

According to The Wall Street Journal, more Republicans are slowly beginning to express support for him.
Trump's early congressional backers, who initially faced scorn for backing the businessman are finding themselves in a more comfortable position, it observed.
"You're not having to stick your neck out quite as far as a few months ago. It's less of a stretch now. People like to be with the winner," Congressman Duncan hunter told the journal.
He was one of the few GOP lawmakers to endorse Trump in March.
A day earlier, Senator Bob Corker Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee welcomed the foreign policy speech of Trump.

"Today, Donald Trump delivered a very good foreign policy speech in which he laid out his vision for American engagement in the world," he said in yet another indication of the changing views of the top party leadership.
When subsidised foreign steel is dumped into US markets,
threatening factories, the politicians have proven they do nothing, he charged.
"For years, they watched on the sidelines as our jobs vanished and our communities were plunged into Depression-level unemployment. Many of these areas have never recovered and never will unless I become president," he said.
Trump said this wave of globalisation has wiped the middle class totally.

"It does not have to be this way. We can turn it around and we can turn it around fast. But if we are going to deliver real change, we're going to have to reject the campaign of fear and intimidation being pursued by powerful corporations, media leaks and political dynasties. The people who rigged the system for their benefit will do anything and say anything to keep things exactly the way they are," he said.
Trump alleged the people who rigged the system are supporting Hillary Clinton because they know as long as she is in charge, nothing is going to change.

"The inner cities will remain poor. The factories will remain closed. The borders will remain open. The special interests will remain firmly in control. Clinton and her friends in global finance want to scare America into thinking small," he said.
"And they want to scare the American people out of voting for the better future. And you have a great future, folks. You gave a great future. These people have given her tens of millions of dollars. My campaign has the absolute opposite message," he said.