A sense of panic is rising among Republican elected officials over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s missteps and the inability of his campaign staff to control him.
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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is furious about the dispute with the Khans and has spoken with Trump repeatedly asking him to change course, ABC News reported Wednesday.
Anxious that that may not be enough, Priebus also joined a handful of high-profile Trump allies in considering whether to confront the candidate directly following a series of startling stances and statements with Election Day quickly approaching. John McCain said Wednesday he’s sticking by his pledge to support Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential nominee despite a series of Trump comments that have brought rebukes from top Republicans, including McCain himself.
“Trump is helping [Hillary Clinton] to win by proving he is more unacceptable than she is”, he added.
Republicans who have endorsed Trump, such as former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, are meeting in an attempted campaign intervention. He needs to focus on Hillary, and only Hillary.
He said reports detailing otherwise were part of a media push by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“I think that’s probably right”, he acknowledged.
“He said: ‘It’s more money than we can afford, but I want you to have it for your campaign, ‘ ” Trump said.
Clinton, meanwhile, kept up her assault on Trump’s business practices, holding up a Trump-branded tie as she spoke at the Knotty Tie Company in battleground Colorado.
But on Wednesday, an unidentified Trump campaign source told MSNBC the unrest inside the campaign was “way worse than people realize”. The soldier’s father appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week.
US President Barack Obama yesterday unleashed his strongest attack yet on Mr Trump, calling him unfit for the presidency. “And I’m pleased to do it”.
Priebus, who is a longtime friend of Ryan’s, was said to be “apoplectic” at Trump’s refusal to give his blessing to the Wisconsin Republican.
If his poll numbers crash, and Republican politicians start worrying more about losing their own races in November than alienating their party’s base, the Trump-coaster could career off the rails at last.
“Trump is still behaving like as though it was the primary and there were 17 candidates”. Mike Pence, both refused to endorse McCain.
“There has to be a point in which you say: ‘This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party'”.
That’s a significantly tighter gap than in June, when Trump’s total was million to Clinton’s million. It remains to be seen how ready or willing Trump is to take outside advice.
Trump responded in an interview by declining to support McCain’s re-election bid. In an August 3 appearance on Fox News, Manafort disputed reports of an intervention.
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When asked on Fox News about whether or not there’s a planned intervention, Manafort dismissed the claim saying “The only thing we have to have an intervention [on] is some media types who keep saying things that are not true”.
