Republican legislators in Kentucky are citing various reasons for Donald Trump’s frontrunner status in the race for the party’s nomination for president. Trump won both the Kentucky republican caucus and the Louisiana primary on Saturday.
London Senator Albert Robinson came to Frankfort in 1972, serving first in the state house for eight years. The veteran republican says Trump holds nothing back. “I think he’s telling the people what they want to hear. It’s the truth, but he is bringing out the frustrations of the people and at least he’s getting these issues out where people have to talk about them," Robinson says.
Senate President Robert Stivers, a republican, says there are three types of people voting for Trump. “There is a group that is tired of political correctness. There is a group that feels they’ve been shunned and are outsiders. There are a group that think truly the United States has lost its prominence," Stivers says.
Northern Kentucky republican Senator Will Schroder began his senate term last year. The 33 year old believes part of Trump’s attraction is his big personality. Schroder says he’s concerned about the direction Trump is taking the Republican Party and that he prefers any of the other GOP candidates to the frontrunner.
