Republican elders who had lined up to heap opprobrium on Donald Trump during his corrosive campaign came out one by one yesterday to congratulate him as the party emerged transformed from his victory.
From the Bush family, which had a contentious relationship with Mr Trump, former President George HW Bush called the winner to wish him luck. Jeb Bush, who once called his former rival the “chaos candidate”, said he would pray for the billionaire.
Mitt Romney, who had called Mr Trump a “phoney, a fraud”, sent his best wishes. And Paul Ryan, the top-ranking official in Congress who refused to defend Mr Trump during his campaign, said the Republican “heard a voice out in this country that no one else heard”.
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