Now it's official: it will be Donald Trump the Republican candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in November, when he will most likely challenge former First Lady Hillary Clinton, with whom the verbal confrontation has already begun. The tycoon has reached the so-called magic number for the Republican presidential race nomination: 1.237 delegates will support him at the July convention, and therefore he will unequivocally run for the White House.
“The people behind me allowed us to cross the threshold,” claims Trump at the press conference, after having completely overturned all kinds of predictions in recent months, he who started from absolute underdog compared to the more quoted candidacies first of Jeb Bush and then of Marco Rubio and finally of Ted Cruz, who however have never managed to convince the American "right" electorate.
In the last period Trump, accused several times of xenophobia and misogyny, has tried to change his image by changing staff and announcing, just yesterday, that in case of victory in the November elections he will probably nominate a woman or a member of minorities as vice president. “There will be many women involved – she remarked – we will look at competence”. And speaking of staff, a new jolt has just arrived: the New York tycoon has separated his path from that of the political director of his campaign, Rick Wiley, hired only a few months ago. It is not clear whether Wiley was fired: some US media speak of disagreements with Trump's campaign manager, while the Republican candidate's staff claims that his was a temporary assignment. “Rick Wiley has been hired on a short-term basis as a consultant – reads a note -. We thank him for helping us during this transition period.”
Meanwhile, Trump continues to go hard against his now almost certain opponent, Hillary Clinton, on the emailgate, and also replied to Barack Obama who from the G7 called him "ignorant of world affairs and contemptuous", and says world leaders are frightened of him. "If world leaders are shaken by me - Trump said - it's a good thing". “If I look at radical, extreme Islam – he added -, I'm not happy at all: we have to find a solution. Obama never found it, he doesn't even want to say the words 'extreme Islamic terrorism' ”.
