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Republicans are beginning to accept the idea that Donald Trump will be their party's presidential nominee.
A growing number of national Republicans and GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill say Trump has taken on an indisputable air of inevitability.
Some argue they should get behind him now and abandon the "Never Trump" efforts.
Embracing Trump, Republicans say, may be the GOP's only hope.
"Donald Trump is going to be our nominee," Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote on Facebook this week. "The voters have spoken."
"I don't understand. I mean, it's not 'Never Trump.' Come on. Wake up and smell the coffee," said Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, who earlier this week cast his ballot for Trump, along with his family and 57 percent of Republican primary voters in his state.
Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said of Trump, "I'm going to do everything in my power to help him."
On Thursday, Trump picked up endorsements from two House committee chairmen: Reps. Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania, who chairs the Transportation Committee, and Jeff Miller of Florida, who chairs Veterans Affairs. He talked foreign policy in a phone call with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who heads the Foreign Relations Committee. Corker was full of compliments about Trump.
Roger Villere, longtime Louisiana state GOP chief and one of the national party's vice chairmen, said a "clear supermajority" at the Republican National Committee spring meeting earlier this month in South Florida were warming to Trump as standard-bearer. "When we got in closed rooms and everybody started talking, the general consensus was that he's going to be our nominee."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/congressional-gop-beginning-accept-trump-nominee-38753639
