They said the party should instead focus on protecting vulnerable candidates in elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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The draft letter says “recent Fox News, Marist College and NBC News/Wall Street Journal national polls show Trump trailing Clinton by 9 to 14 percentage points, margins that would make for the largest general election blowout since 1984 if they held”.
‘This should not be a hard decision, as Donald Trump’s chances of being elected president are evaporating by the day’. Chris Shays of Connecticut, Tom Coleman of Missouri and Vin Weber of Minnesota.
The letter was spawned as a result of “alienating” comments Trump has made in which he attacked a Gold Star family and applauded a possible Russian hack into the email server of the Democratic National Committee.
“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”.
Former members of Congress are among the signatories of the letter.
Weinstein told Politico the letter is from ‘people who want the party to protect its majorities in the Senate and House.’ He added that ‘it’s not an endorsement of anybody’. “Sometimes somebody will say ‘Well, we’re not going to support Trump.’ They’re not going to support because they aren’t the people that I want”.
“Every dollar spent by the RNC on Donald Trump’s campaign is a dollar of donor money wasted on the losing effort of a candidate who has actively undermined the GOP at every turn”.
But Sean Spicer, RNC chief strategist, dismissed reports that Priebus threatened to reallocate resources, saying on Twitter Thursday the story is “not true”.
But Trump added in a Fox News interview that if it is true, it’s alright, because he’s the one raising money for the RNC.
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“I’m the one raising the money for them”, he continued.
