That’s led to tension between the Trump campaign and RNC officials over strategies and tactics.
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Trump later said he wasn’t anxious Republicans would cut him off – and threatened to stop fundraising for the party if they do.
“They have to spend money efficiently right now to avoid getting buried by Hillary”, argued Austin Barbour, a longtime Republican political operative.
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.
Support for the GOP nominee has also been dropping since the Democratic convention last month, which produced a polling bump for that party’s nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Marc Zell, co-chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel, says about 100,000 Israelis voted in the last presidential election, with some 85 percent going Republican.
Those concerns are compelling enough that dozens of anxious Republicans gathered signatures Thursday for a letter urging the GOP chairman to stop helping Trump and focus on protecting vulnerable House and Senate candidates.
Many Republicans have voiced exasperation with the provocative tone of Trump’s campaign.
In a letter to the RNC this week, first reported on by Politico, dozens of Republican strategists and former lawmakers pressed the issue. She lied when she said nothing in these emails were confidential.
The letter comes as a number of Republican senators and high-profile GOP national security officials have come forward saying they can not vote for Trump.
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is giving a chapter-by-chapter glimpse into his life, which the political veteran says, is just like anyone else’s. On Tuesday, after conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt tried to steer Trump toward explaining he really meant Obama’s Mideast policies created conditions that ISIS exploited, Trump wanted none of it.
The letter reportedly points to numerous recent Trump controversies, declaring that the candidate has “alienated millions of voters of all parties”.
The letter adds that the party should instead, focus on protecting vulnerable candidates in elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
An RNC member said discontent with the Trump campaign has hit new heights in recent days, describing “major tumult in the building and staff problems and disagreements and RNC staff on the edge ofmutiny.”
Donald Trump plans to return to Wisconsin next week and once again the state’s top Republican leaders won’t be there.
“Every dollar spent by the RNC on Donald Trump’s campaign is a dollar of donor money wasted on the losing effort of a candidate who has actively undermined the GOP at every turn”.
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“They want to patch up a rift that just keeps unfolding”, one source said. “She lied when she said that she only had one device”.
