When election day comes on November 8, the members of the #NeverTrump faction of the Republican Party will have known they have literally done everything they can procedurally to stop Donald Trump from being the GOP presidential nominee.
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“Only the immediate shift of all available RNC (Republican National Convention) resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP (Republican Party) from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck”.
Poll numbers in Pennsylvania are not favoring him at the moment.
“They have to spend money efficiently right now to avoid getting buried by Hillary”, argued Austin Barbour, a longtime Republican political operative. “He can go have lunch in CT and be home for supper, but the map is changing rapidly in the opposite direction”.
At his Erie event, Trump seemed to acknowledge he is facing a formidable opponent in Clinton as well as a hard electoral path.
Bryant says he wants to talk about state issues in his challenge to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee.
During the Republican primaries, the Manhattan real estate mogul and former reality television star ignored the experts and the pundits who told him to be more “presidential”, to stop insulting his rival and to prepare his speeches.
The Trump campaign says it will have around a dozen staffers by the end of this week and the RNC says it has 80 staffers that will focus on the campaign.
“No one in the world thinks he has a shot in CT”, said former Romney strategist Stuart Stevens, according to the same Politico report.
“The only way we can lose, in my opinion – I really mean this, Pennsylvania – is if cheating goes on”, he said.
The campaign said in a press release that of the $80 million raised, approximately $64 million came through its digital and direct mail operations with the RNC, which is significantly higher than what Trump told supporters on Monday in OH when he said the campaign had raised $35.8 million directly.
“Trump is behind, and he may not have many ways to catch up”, said Kyle Kondik, the newsletter’s managing editor. The candidate labeled reporters the “lowest form of humanity” in Pennsylvania on Friday and claimed that the media is piling on him and doing the bidding of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Such appearances by a party chair are not unusual in a presidential campaign, but this one stands out in an election cycle with Trump lagging behind Clinton in a swath of polls, particularly in key electoral states. I’m just going to be sort of run of the mill Clintonista, corrupt. That pledge was organized by the Republican National Committee, whose chairman, Reince Priebus, was attending the rally in Erie, Pennsylvania. “But we don’t want people voting four and five times”.
It’s those kinds of moments that lead experienced Republicans to think Trump can not be saved from himself.
Doubling down on his assertion Wednesday that President Barack Obama is “the founder of ISIS” and Clinton its “co-founder”, Trump rejected any suggestion he might tamp down his rhetoric as Election Day closes in. “Until he gets help and admits it, he won’t be able to change”.
-Alan Abramowitz explains why he think Trump will underperform compared to a generic Republican candidate.
“Why be fake?” she asked.
Originally the media followed Trump because of his charismatic and entertainment-like figure.
“On Election Day, Pennsylvania is going to be won here in central and western Pennsylvania”, Shuster said, “because these people are going to get out and vote”. Thomson also said she expected the party to “strong arm” those who support the effort into removing that support after the fact, but she said the group will continue to fight for a different nominee until all of their options are exhausted.
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“I hope the Republicans are watching closely”, he said.
