Donald Trump prodded warnings, support at state GOP parley
Donald Trump, left, and Carl Paladino, who ran for governor of New York as a Republican in 2010, speak during a gun rights rally at the Empire State Plaza on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Credit: AP / Mike Groll
State Republicans met in Buffalo Friday to nominate a U.S. Senate candidate and to plot continued GOP control of the state Senate. But much of its agenda was trumped.
Conservative Carl Paladino, the millionaire developer who lost to Democrat Andrew M. Cuomo in 2010, urged Republicans to embrace Donald Trump for president. Others fear Trump and his hardline rhetoric that includes building a wall along the Mexican border threatens the party of Lincoln and the country.
“It was a major focal point outside the convention hall,” said John Cahill, the party’s attorney general nominee in 2014. “I find this discourse not serving the best interests of the American people. We need a message that is not going to divide.”
Michael Gormley has worked for Newsday since 2013, covering state government, politics and issues. He has covered Albany since 2001.
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