In a seven-page inner memo, the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s executive director Ward Baker lays out a game plan for Republicans running for Senate in 2016 to journey Trump’s populist intensity while dodging the brash billionaire’s controversy-prone candidacy ought to he win the party bash’s presidential nomination. On the other side, Ted Cruz has 24 percent support. The term-limited governor’s protestations that Trump isn’t fit to be president are having no impact on his growing standing with the Republican electorate.
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Trump also offered his regular criticism of trade deals and a declining economy. Marco Rubio in the polls, and now, fortunately for him, he’s up again.
“This was the first time I’d heard him publicly speak about his faith”.
This is just one in a series of controversial comments Trump has made on the campaign trail. Candidates shouldn’t go near this ground other than to say that your wife or daughter is offended by what Trump said. Despite being more conservative than the Republican voters there, he would still be the logical choice if he remains ahead of Bush, Christie and Kasich in state polls and if he beats those three solidly in Iowa.
In September, Trump did not challenge a supporter at a Rochester, N.H., event who said, “We have a problem in this country”. They are anxious about the future.
But Baker also notes senators should avoid “wacky things about women” Trump has said. Eight percent of Republican voters surveyed said they are undecided. “When I did this, I said I have to be treated fairly”.
Attempts to hurt Trump’s 2016 run are “not going to work”, according to former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain who spoke out for “outsiders” seeking the White House.
The Jones interview basically amounted to a finger-based insult “to all those establishment Republicans hoping he’ll straighten out or fall by the wayside”, writes Callum Borcher on the Washington Post political blog The Fix.
There are many possible scenarios.
New Hampshire votes on February 9, and Trump has a large lead now.
Baker’s memo is meant to prepare Republican Senate candidates for the possibility of Trump winning the nomination.
In a hypothetical general election match-up, his 10-point lead over Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton from last month has evaporated.
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, meanwhile, earns the highest favorability marks of all GOP candidates, Real Clear Politics pointed out.
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Trump, who is leading the field, spent just $217,000. The next best opportunity for that comes in the December 15 debate in Las Vegas, perhaps the last chance for Republican contenders to make their pitch to the public before Americans turn their focus to the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period.
