Obama to Republican Disavowing Trump: WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG

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8. An NYT article covers his stump for Hillary. He knew cyber attacks could make this "too late."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/us/politics/for-republicans-abandoning-donald-trump-obama-has-a-message-too-late.html

The president said they had flirted for years with a strain of bare-knuckled partisanship that appealed to people who sought to delegitimize him by falsely asserting that he was born outside the United States and was plotting to take Americans’ guns and impose martial law.

Now, he said, they should be held to account for the consequences.

“They just stood by and said nothing, and their base actually began to believe this crazy stuff,” Mr. Obama said. “Donald Trump didn’t start this. He just did what he always does, which is slap his name on it, take credit for it and promote it.”

“Now, when suddenly it’s not working,” he added, “suddenly that’s a deal breaker. Well, what took you so long? What the heck?” He went on to repeat the phrase several times.

Mr. Obama implored the crowd to turn out to vote for Hillary Clinton, or see all the progress made during his tenure go “out the window.”

“Competing for the job I currently hold, you’ve got a guy who proves himself unfit for this office every single day, every single way, and on the other side, you’ve got somebody who is as qualified as anybody who’s ever run for the presidency: Hillary Rodham Clinton,” Mr. Obama said.