And, with roughly three months until Election Day, there is still time for Trump to turn his campaign around.
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The Republican-leaning Wall Street Journal has rebuked Donald Trump.
The bottom line: Trump has no national campaign.He is apparently going to ask the Republican National Committee to open field offices in all 50 states, but that monumental task should have been done months ago.
And, it isn’t just CT that has Republicans scratching their heads. “Donald Trump, the Republican Party, all of you, we ae going to put him in the White House and save this country together”. “Even with more than 80 days left, Mr. Trump’s window for a turnaround is closing”, the board admits.
Concerned Republicans say their worries go beyond the campaign’s decision to send its greatest resource – the candidate himself – to chase one or two electoral votes in ME, or to what they believe are unwinnable states like CT.
“The state of CT is the biggest warning of what Hillary Clinton economic policies will look like”, Romano said.
Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.
“They have to spend money efficiently right now to avoid getting buried by Hillary”, argued Austin Barbour, a longtime Republican political operative.
After Mitt Romney’s devastating defeat in 2012, the GOP did an “autopsy” of the election and a major finding was the need to reach out to minorities, particularly Hispanics. They were burying us with negative ads in swing states well before Labor Day.
“Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign”, the newspaper said in an editorial.
“I have been saying because it’s true, but somewhat sarcastically, that he’s the founder of ISIS and she’s a close second”, Trump said in Altoona.
So where are the Republicans who we’ve come to count on to push back against the government’s desire to assault American liberty in order to grow its own power? “Just nice and easy”, said Trump.
Publicly, both the RNC chair and the Trump campaign are denying all of this, stating that communication and cooperation between the candidate and the party are great.
The letter follows a steady stream of recent defections from Republican elected officials and longtime strategists who vow never to support Mr Trump.
But the general election is quite different. Does the party keep pushing for a win at the top, or does it regroup and focus down ballot in the hopes of keeping the Senate and House?
The Trump campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment. Early fundraising reports were paltry, but that is no longer the case.
So, problem solved? Maybe, although there’s an overarching problem: what happens if the Republican National Committee decides to give up on Trump?
With Republicans in the United States ahead of the presidential election on November 8 continues the process of identifying candidates for the Democrats. “Weinstein, who is coordinating the letter drive, said he now has 110 Republicans who have signed on”.
Too little, too late – and possibly the end of the Republican Party. He was the last man standing, and won the Republican Party’s nomination.
The grievance letter to the RNC noted recent examples, including Trump’s public rebuke of the Khan family after they spoke at the Democratic National Convention and his suggestion that Russian Federation should expose Clinton’s private emails. “Number two, we’re only six points down [in national polls]”.
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Trump fired back at Romney saying he “understand losers, you can make a lot of money with losers”, adding that Romney’s 2012 presidential run was a failure because the former MA governor “choked like a dog, he’s a choker”.
