First of all, we know that Reince Priebus, who is the chairman of the Republican Party, made a point of introducing Donald Trump today when he spoke in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Dozens of frightened Republicans are signing onto a letter urging the Republican National Committee to cut off financial help to presidential candidate Donald Trump before his controversial and unconventional campaign sinks vulnerable Senate and House incumbents.
Donald Trump’s team is set to meet with Republican officials today in what sources are calling a “come to Jesus” meeting to discuss the GOP nominee’s train wreck of a campaign. There was a letter this week by former foreign policy experts in the Republican Party. Senator McConnell said that Mitt Romney will become the Republican presidential nominee, and that Romney is an “oustanding” candidate. “If I’m not, it’ll be a guy called Chuck Schumer from NY (as Senate majority leader) who has a very different mindset from myself, and our ability to impact judicial appointments will be considerably diminished if those guys are in the majority as opposed to us”.
Only hours before, the billionaire businessman had restated the allegation with no mention of sarcasm, telling rally-goers in Kissimmee, Fla., that “I’ve been saying that Barack Obama is the founder”.
Turning to Hillary Clinton, Priebus said that she “has a problem with lying”.
The letter adds that the party should instead, focus on protecting vulnerable candidates in elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Still, Trump told Fox’s Bill O’Reilly that “if it is true, that’s okay too because all I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party”.
Sit and wait: Some disaffected Republicans think their best option is to just denounce Mr Trump and hope for better luck next time.
Some Republicans outside the Trump campaign think paid advertising could be especially helpful for a candidate like Trump, who lacks discipline, to maintain a consistent message for voters. She lied when she said nothing in these emails were confidential.
Reports are that if Trump doesn’t improve in the polls by October, the GOP will forget about the White House race. Last month, the Republican National Convention sought to ease concerns about a fractured party by making a concerted effort to show unity, with some establishment figures like House Speaker Paul Ryan in attendance, but in only a few short weeks, that image appears to be disintegrating.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And so what sort of pressure, Robert, is there on the Republican Party, on the leadership of the party to either work with Donald Trump or to distance themselves from him?
The Trump campaign and the media are kidding themselves if they believe that they have a lot of time left to turn it around.
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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. We’ll also discuss how her Republican colleagues are grappling with the chaos of the 2016 race–will they lose control of the Senate if Trump can’t get his campaign back on track?
