Following on the announcement that the College Republicans at Harvard University will not endorse Donald Trump for president, the College Republicans at Pennsylvania State University have announced that they too will not endorse Trump. John McCainJohn McCainKhizr Khan asks McCain to rebuke Trump Why it’s so hard for Republicans to buck party over Trump Poll: Clinton holds 46-point lead among Hispanics MORE (R-Ariz.) and other Republicans to rebuke their party’s nominee Donald TrumpDonald TrumpIn economic speech, Trump mostly wrong on regulations Democratic senator knocks Trump’s “sense of humor about ISIS” Khizr Khan asks McCain to rebuke Trump MORE.
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“McCain’s failure to answer Mr. Khan proves the straight talk is gone and it’s McCain and Trump first, not country first”, Kirkpatrick said in a statement.
According to a report by Politico, the letter urges the RNC to shift resources to vulnerable congressional races in order to “prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck”.
The McCain camp has not yet withdrawn their support for Trump. “He just put out a press release”. Democratic nominees for president typically capture in excess of 95 percent of the Black vote, but Trump is not even doing that well.
In a draft letter with more than 70 signatories that is expected to be formally sent next week, they warn of “the catastrophic impact” they predict Trump’s campaign will have on other Republicans who are running this year. “I hadn’t planned on using any of these people”.
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So far, the letter has been signed by a number of key former party staff members and officials. “He also has shown unsafe authoritarian tendencies, including threats to ban an entire religion from entering the country, order the military to break the law by torturing prisoners, kill the families of suspected terrorists, track law-abiding Muslim citizens in databases, and use executive orders to implement other illegal and unconstitutional measures”. Politico reported that it began circulating this week and is expected to be sent to Priebus next week.
