We've still got three months to go, but the writing is already on the wall: Trump is going to lose and it's every GOP man and woman for themselves.
New York Times reports:
After a disastrous week of feuds and plummeting poll numbers, Republican leaders have concluded that Donald J. Trump is a threat to the party’s fortunes and have begun discussing how soon their endangered candidates should explicitly distance themselves from the presidential nominee.
For Republicans in close races, top strategists say, the issue is no longer in doubt. One House Republican has already started airing an ad vowing to stand up to Mr. Trump if he is elected president, and others are expected to press similar themes in the weeks ahead.
In the world of Republican “super PACs,” strategists are going even farther: discussing advertisements that would treat Mr. Trump’s defeat as a given and urge voters to send Republicans to Congress as a check on a Hillary Clinton White House. The discussions were described by officials familiar with the deliberations, several of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity about confidential planning.
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Mr. Trump’s plunge in polls this week, along with his dual attacks on the family of a fallen American soldier and the leadership of his own party, has convinced veteran Republican strategists that most of their candidates must navigate around the presidential nominee.
Plans for ads that distance congressional candidates from the top of the ticket have accelerated. “You will see them by early to mid-September now,” even before the first debate on Sept. 26, predicted Scott Reed, the senior political strategist for the United States Chamber of Commerce.
This is what panic looks like, and after the past couple of weeks I don't blame them.
Things look dire for Trump now, but I believe that the Clinton campaign and their allies are still holding back some devastating new attacks on him until after Labor Day. And as voting time approaches, we're definitely going to see downballot Republicans across the country be portrayed as two peas in a pod with their standard-bearer whether they like it or not.
As we can see, escape plans are already being hatched...but sitting out an endorsement or even denouncing the Republican nominee shouldn't cut it. Their only way out should be an outright endorsement of Hillary Clinton, something very few (if any) of them are likely to do. Otherwise, no Republican anywhere in the country should be safe from being chained to Trump as the Great Blue Wave of 2016 fast approaches.
After eight years of selfish and destructive obstructionism against our beloved President Obama, they truly deserve nothing less.
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Originally posted at HillaryHQ.com