Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill for backing in Khan controversy

[MohRokTah]

I TOLD the Republicans trying to avoid completely repudiating Trump this was only going to get worse. Now the cockwomble is demanding loyalty over his attacks on a Gold Star family:

Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill for backing in Khan controversy

WASHINGTON | By Richard Cowan and David Morgan

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated U.S. soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members.

Trump's criticism of Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, who took the stage at last week's Democratic convention, sparked a growing wave of concern and dismay from Republican lawmakers responding to the latest Trump outburst to blindside his party colleagues.

Republican Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the most prominent veteran in Congress, along with the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, joined the chorus of condemnation, reflecting the highly regarded place the military and its veterans hold with many in the United States.

Trump's dispute with the Khans has dominated the White House campaign in recent days and underlined the uneasy alliance between many leading Republicans and the party's freewheeling, unorthodox nominee for the Nov. 8 election.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN10C2GO

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Every R politician is running full speed from this

Meanwhile, on the Internet, the Trump trolls are wish-spamming that this won't hurt his support. Watching them flail is hilarious.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. He's unbelievable

The author of "The Art of the Deal" was utterly shocked by this type of behavior, and now more of the world gets to see it.

[Koinos]

3. That's the funniest thing I have heard today.

Supporting Trump's attack on Khan could be career-ending.

I'm sure some will be dumb enough to do it.

[MohRokTah]

5. It's BETTER than that NOT supporting Trump's attack on Khan could be career-ending

They are in the worst political Catch-22 in history. They have to ice skate on the edge of a razor on this one.

If they don't support him, and he loses, the base will BLAME THEM for the loss!

[Koinos]

7. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Wet blanket time.

There are many Rethugs that have geared their Campaigns to running against Obama and his Muslim so called ties. In a interview on a CBS outlet here in Vegas yesterday,Cresant Hardy is running with the Parties Campaign story line,everything is Obama's fault and he would not disclaim Trump and in fact blamed Obama for all these Immigration issues with nuances that Muslim's are the blame. The same talking points showed up in the Senate race with Joe Heck parroting the same crap. Nothing has changed,we are seeing the repeat of 2014 campaign.

[beachbumbob]

6. Doesn't get any better than this

DNC has to make local elections all about trump...what a democratic landslide