Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus introduced Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Erie, Penn., on Friday in a show of unity amid rumors of troubled waters between the RNC and the Trump campaign.
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“We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide”, read a draft text of the letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, which was obtained by the Politico newspaper.
They warn that the GOP Senate and House candidates will “drown with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck”, unless all available RNC resources, set aside for Trump, are immediately shifted for their campaign.
Trump, for his part, has heard these rumors and responded to them as follows: “I’m the one raising that’s funding, I’m the one that’s raising the money and other people are getting to use the money that I raised”.
The same day, Trump acknowledged that his lack of political correctness could cost him the election if Americans reject his blunt approach.
Republican leaders are lining up to disavow Donald Trump’s daily diatribes against immigrants, women, families of veterans, Latino judges and anyone who disagrees with him.
Many Republicans have voiced exasperation with the provocative tone of Trump’s campaign.
Just this week, for instance, Trump declared Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama the founder and co-founder of the ISIS terrorist organization and invited Second Amendment advocates to take action against Clinton.
Donald Trump is winding down another tough week in the presidential race, as new polls now put him behind by double digits in several key states. Larry is our main news editor.
Trump has maintained that his popularity with supporters is all he needs to win in November, even as his poll numbers have sank in traditionally Republican states including Iowa and Utah.
The letter, whose signers include former congressmen Gordon Humphrey, Mickey Edwards and Christopher Shays; Bruce Bartlett, a member of President George W. Bush’s cabinet; and former RNC staff members said that Trump’s campaign will have a “catastrophic impact” on down-ballot races.
“She got elected – she did nothing”, Trump said.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign says the Democratic nominee and her husband paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent and donated 9.8 percent of their income to charity a year ago.
“They want to patch up a rift that just keeps unfolding”, a source told Politico.
All of these GOP senators are facing tough battles, but it’s unclear how much of a drag Mr. Trump is having on them.
With the election less than three months away, McConnell said Republicans are in “a dogfight”, The Associated Press reported.
The letter cited various actions by Trump that the signers said have “alienated millions of voters of all parties”.
She said those balking at his missteps were being “too sensitive” – a luxury the nation can’t afford with growing security threats.
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But one of those donors, Art Pope, a North Carolinian and CEO of Variety Wholesalers, said he is anxious about the gubernatorial and Senate races in the state.
