it will take every ounce of democratic party unity money time and energy and a massive turnout from core democrats and centrist independents to offset the gutter attacks that will be tossed at clinton trump earned his stratospheric negatives but what about hillary two prominent house allies of paul ryan broke with the speaker friday over his decision to withhold support from donald trump top allies break with ryan over trump in spite of his insistence that he will not run mitt romney is being courted this week by a leading conservative commentator mitt romney met privately with william kristol who is leading effort to draft an independent bid