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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt’s time for GOP leaders to choose sides on Donald Trump
Its time for GOP leaders to choose sides on Donald TrumpBy Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/07/republicans-need-to-think-very-hard-on-whether-they-can-live-with-donald-trump-for-5-more-months/
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Donald Trump has been the Republican presidential nominee for five weeks as of Tuesday. Those 35 days have been filled with self-inflicted wounds the latest being Trump's insistence that a judge of Mexican descent is biased against him because Trump has said he would build a wall between the United States and Mexico if he is elected and mounting evidence that the real estate mogul has absolutely no plans to change the brash and bullying approach that won him the GOP primary.
The realization is setting in among GOP leaders that the way Trump has acted as the party's nominee has the potential not only to cost Republicans the White House in 2016 but also to damage the party's brand among key constituencies Hispanics, most obviously that could set them back for far longer than a single election cycle.
If anybody was looking for an off-ramp, this is probably it, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said in the New York Times on Tuesday. Therell come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary.
He's right. For party leaders who've lined up with Trump amid polling that suggested he was running surprisingly competitively against Democrat Hillary Clinton, the time is rapidly approaching to either hop off the Trump train or decide you are riding it all the way to Nov. 8.
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It’s time for GOP leaders to choose sides on Donald Trump (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2016
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)1. They will publicly denounce him, but still stand by him. They think nobody will notice.
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. This will further divide up the GOP and cause the party to go into a tailspin.
They never encountered anyone like The Dumpster, he personifies what their party has been evolving into since Reagan. And now that they have him, they don't want him for their parties core values are toxic and they know it.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)3. This is how I feel when watching the Republicans these days
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