A report that the Republican National Committee is preparing for the possibility that Donald Trump might drop out of the presidential race has set the political world alight.
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Trump has frequently repeated his desire to change his party and turn it into a “worker’s party”, and if the GOP officials once again try to oust and replace Trump, it’s unclear who would emerge as a viable alternative.
Party chairman Reince Priebus appealed to the NY billionaire’s adult children to help.
One of the people said Trump privately blames his own staff for failing to quiet the backlash from his own party after he criticized an American Muslim family whose son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed in Iraq.
Anxious that that may not be enough, Priebus also joined a handful of high-profile Trump allies in considering whether to confront the candidate directly following a series of startling stances and statements with Election Day quickly approaching.
The United States’ presidential campaign, already long and tumultuous, will no doubt become even more so in the coming months, as the two parties’ nominees, now officially selected, face off ahead of November’s election.
Trump on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that the GOP frustration was hurting his campaign, even as he openly contemplated an Election Day loss.
“Wouldn’t that be embarrassing to lose to crooked Hillary?” That fact-free speculation – revived on Tuesday night by Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski – is closely connected to the myth that the president is a secret Muslim, a belief that is still held by nearly a third of all Americans and 54 percent of Republican primary voters. Trump insisted he too had made sacrifices and questioned why Ghazala Khan did not speak on stage, which she later said was because she was too bereaved.
In an interview later Wednesday with Florida’s WPEC-TV, Trump was asked if he was being “baited into battles”.
“I can tell you as an entrepreneur and investor with absolute certainty that companies and jobs, they won’t be created by terrifying people”, Cuban said at a Clinton rally in Pittsburgh last week.
The most powerful Republicans in Washington and New York’s Trump Tower concede things will not change unless Trump wants them to.
An anonymous source told NBC News that the RNC Chair is “apologetic” and now in talks with the Trump campaign in an effort to smooth things over. “Surely you can understand the confusion, considering Donald Trump never voted for the Iraq war – Hillary Clinton did – and then she didn’t support the troops to have what they need”, Pierson said.
Mrs Clinton, meanwhile, kept up her assault on Mr Trump’s business practices, holding up a Trump-branded tie as she spoke at the Knotty Tie Company in battleground Colorado.
Trump blamed the media – “so dishonest” – for growing criticism of his recent statements and his unwillingness to accept guidance from senior advisers. Another person said Trump is irritated that general election planning in battleground states isn’t further along with less than 100 days until Election Day. “I would say right now it’s the best in terms of being united since we began”.
Mike Pence broke away from Trump and threw his full support behind Ryan by endorsing him on Wednesday. He strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan in next Tuesday’s primary. “I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it”.
But while Trump quickly dove off message, the Republican nominee neither relitigated his feud with the Khans nor did he hint at his reluctance to endorse Ryan and other congressional Republicans.
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Veterans groups and several prominent Republican leaders have pushed Trump to apologize for the public fight with Khan, but Vaughn said she did not think any such move is needed. That was less than the $90 million Clinton raised along with the national Democratic Party the same month, but it was a substantial bump from his fund-raising in past months.
