Dozens of influential Republicans are reportedly urging GOP Chief to stop spending money on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and shift those contributions to Senate and House races in November.
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Politico reported that it began circulating this week and is expected to be sent to Priebus next week.
Chairman Reince Priebus fired up more than 7,000 people before introducing Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Friday afternoon, showing the Republican Party is united behind its nominee.
Trump, in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday night, dismissed the letter and suggested that the Republican Party needs him financially more than he needs it.
The Senate majority leader has endorsed Trump for the White House but has previously been critical of the GOP nominee.
Former Iowa Republican Party chair Craig Robinson told FoxNews.com that while Fiorina is a good candidate for the job, her apparent gamble that Trump will lose shows she is not a team player.
Trump has blamed the USA news media for taking many of his comments out of context, and on Thursday night, some of his supporters heckled and cursed reporters who covered his rally in a large arena in nearby Kissimmee.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Robert, we have seen more – or at least a number of prominent Republicans like Senator Susan Collins of ME come out and say they couldn’t support Donald Trump. “And I mean, if it is true, that’s OK too because all I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party”. To think Republicans will come to the polls just to vote down-ticket, well, that’s unprecedented.
The letter said that the party should instead focus on protecting vulnerable candidates in elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Trump visiting CT, a heavily Democratic state, raised eyebrows among many Republicans.
“To me, what that shows is this is nearly like a family intervention, where they are trying to rescue a family member who is engaged in self-destructive behavior, which is what the RNC is doing right now”, he said.
Indeed, such has been Mr Ryan’s reluctance to be seen to embrace Mr Trump, thereby damaging his own chances of a presidential run in 2020, he took several weeks before he saying he was ready to endorse him. “I’m the one raising the money for them”, Trump said.
Yet in other traditionally GOP-leaning states, like Arizona and Georgia, Republicans are concerned Trump’s unpopularity could give Democrats an improbable victory.
Earlier this week he caused a major stir with comments about the Second Amendment that were perceived as advocating violence against Clinton, then faced questions yet again after declaring Wednesday that President Barack Obama was the “founder” of the Islamic State group – a patently false claim.
It’s those kinds of moments that lead experienced Republicans to think Mr Trump can not be saved from himself.
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“They want to patch up a rift that just keeps unfolding”, a source told Politico, speaking about Friday’s sit-down, which is to be held in Orlando.
