Donald Trump and Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, made a public show of unity Friday after a tumultuous week.
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In their letter, first reported by Politico, they said Trump’s “recklessness, incompetence and record-breaking unpopularity” risked turning the presidential election into a landslide for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Dozens of frightened Republicans are signing onto a letter urging the Republican National Committee to cut off financial help to presidential candidate Donald Trump before his controversial and unconventional campaign sinks vulnerable Senate and House incumbents.
‘This should not be a hard decision, as Donald Trump’s chances of being elected president are evaporating by the day’.
The signatories include former Republican Senators and Representatives and former RNC staffers.
“Generally there is a sense that Trump is his own guy – that he’s his own brand and not a dyed-in-the-wool Republican”, Prior said.
Trump has maintained that his popularity with supporters is all he needs to win in November, even as his poll numbers have sank in traditionally Republican states including Iowa and Utah.
They keep adding to the media’s narrative that Mr. Trump is more unsafe to Western democracy than Mrs. Clinton, and that somehow Republicans can win down-ballot if they sacrifice the White House – a claim that bucks decades worth of voter data. “I’m the one that’s funding, I’m the one that’s raising the money and other people are getting to use the money that I raised”, Trump said.
Is this the kind of thing that the party leadership has to worry about or can they just ignore it all?
Trump dismissed the letter, saying he doesn’t want the support of the Republicans who have signed it.
Speaking to a Louisville-area civic group in his home state, McConnell said Senate Republicans were going to be “on defense” in this year’s election, regardless of who led the ticket as the party’s presidential candidate.
“Don’t believe the garbage you read”, said Priebus.
Trump was in Florida for campaign rallies and to raise money. “I’m putting a lot of money up”. “I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway”. Tell us you will be voting for the only person who has a reasonable chance of defeating Trump.
Trump campaigned in Kissimmee on Thursday and spoke to a meeting of evangelical pastors at the Orange County Convention Center.
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But one of those donors, Art Pope, a North Carolinian and CEO of Variety Wholesalers, said he is anxious about the gubernatorial and Senate races in the state. The meeting comes amid a turbulent few weeks for the Trump campaign, in which Trump attacked the parents of a fallen American soldier, seemingly incited violence against Hillary Clinton, and called Obama “the founder of ISIS”.
