Fearing a 'Blood Bath,' Republican Senators Begin to Edge Away From Trump

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WASHINGTON — For nearly four years, congressional Republicans have ducked and dodged an unending cascade of offensive statements and norm-shattering behavior from President Trump, ignoring his caustic and scattershot Twitter feed and penchant for flouting party orthodoxy, and standing quietly by as he abandoned military allies, attacked American institutions and stirred up racist and nativist fears.

But now, facing grim polling numbers and a flood of Democratic money and enthusiasm that has imperiled their majority in the Senate, Republicans on Capitol Hill are beginning to publicly distance themselves from the president. The shift, less than three weeks before the election, indicates that many Republicans have concluded that Mr. Trump is heading for a loss in November. And they are grasping to save themselves and rushing to re-establish their reputations for a coming struggle for their party’s identity.

Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska unleashed on Mr. Trump in a telephone town hall event with constituents on Wednesday, eviscerating the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and accusing him of “flirting” with dictators and white supremacists and alienating voters so broadly that he might cause a “Republican blood bath” in the Senate. He was echoing a phrase from Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who warned of a “Republican blood bath of Watergate proportions.” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of the president’s most vocal allies, predicted the president could very well lose the White House.

Even the normally taciturn Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has been more outspoken than usual in recent days about his differences with the president, rejecting his calls to “go big” on a stimulus bill. That was a reflection of the fact that Senate Republicans — who have rarely broken with the president on any major legislative initiative in four years — are unwilling to vote for the kind of multitrillion-dollar federal aid plan that Mr. Trump has suddenly decided would be in his interest to embrace.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fearing-a-blood-bath-republican-senators-begin-to-edge-away-from-trump/ar-BB1a6Zm4?li=BBnb7Kz

Might be too late for most of them to wash the Trump stink off.

[montanacowboy]

1. That train left the station a long time ago

fuck them may they all rot in the hell they have constructed for themselves

[Tribetime]

6. Yes they are forever on the drumpf train...too late

F.O.

[Chipper Chat]

2. No shit.

[Maraya1969]

3. The same republicans that were bloviating over him at the White House. Gag me.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

4. lemme know when they start makin like usain bolt.

till then, you dealt it, you smelt it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. I just hope all of their Democratic opponents

connect the Republicans explicitly and tightly to Trump. Do not let them pretend they haven't been supporting him all along.

[Skittles]

7. these repukes completely failed in their duty

they need to be stamped out right along with Trump and that damned virus

[unitedwethrive]

8. The moral fortitude of repubs is just amazing, isn't it?

[JDC]

9. That stink won't ever wash off

[rockfordfile]

10. I don't buy it

[bdamomma]

11. Too late

they showed their hand to us when they didn't impeach and remove him. Let the bloodbath begin.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. They willingly chained an anchor around their necks.

And I'll happily toss them an anvil to go along with it.

[Hassler]

13. Too late

They boarded the Hindenburg, now they get to go down in flames with the demented, orange loser.

[Arazi]

14. Nope. They had the chance to remove him in January

Now he's hung around their necks in perpetuity like a rotten corpse. That stench is forever

(Paraphrasing Adam Schiff)