Kathianne
08-11-2016, 10:21 PM
Just a bit of Julius Caesar here:
http://time.com/4447527/donald-trump-republican-national-committee/
Exclusive: The Republican Party’s Chairman’s Warning to Donald Trump
In a telephone call with Donald Trump last week, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus laid out his concerns with the direction of the GOP nominee’s campaign, according to two Republican officials. On the call, Priebus informed Trump that his campaign seemed to be headed toward failure and that changes were needed to get back on track.
The officials said Priebus described to Trump internal party polls that show his campaign headed in the wrong direction. Priebus told Trump that he would have been better off had he spent the days since the Republican convention at his Mar-a-Lago Club, officials said.
The possibility of Republicans effectively abandoning Trump by prioritizing voter outreach for down-ballot races now haunts his presidential campaign. In the last two weeks, Trump has suffered a deep dive in public polls (http://time.com/4445780/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-iowa-pennsylvania-ohio-poll/) amid a number of controversies caused by his own public statements .
...
With the party seeing record numbers of ticket-splitting voters in its internal and public polls, the GOP is facing a decision about whether to prioritize outreach to those voters who would never vote for Trump but remain open to supporting its Senate and House candidates. The end result could be the party expending resources to turn out voters who will vote for Hillary Clinton but also back Republican Senate incumbents like Marco Rubio in Florida or Rob Portman in Ohio.
With early voting beginning in mid-September, Priebus told Trump he doesn’t have much time to reverse his polling slide, the officials said. Priebus reinforced a longstanding plea to Trump to stay on message—a goal that remained elusive more than a week a later as Trump’s economic speech was quickly drowned out by comments viewed by critics as promoting political violence (http://time.com/4445467/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-second-amendment-judges/).
And on the same topic:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/to-save-the-party-pull-the-plug-on-trump-now/article/2003772
To Save the Party, Pull the Plug on Trump Now
Never throw good money after bad.
...
<cnt style="box-sizing: content-box; display: block; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 34px;">Trump isn't just behind in the big battleground states. No, what should scare sense into any sophisticated Republicans is that Trump is clinging to bare leads in Utah, Kansas, and South Carolina. He's behind in Georgia. This is not a presidential race. It's The Poseidon Adventure.
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If Trump were any other figure, Republican party elites would be making cold-blooded calculations about pulling the plug.
<cnt style="box-sizing: content-box; display: block; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 34px;">But because Trump commands a sub-rational cult of personality, Republicans seem committed to sticking with him, no matter the embarrassment, no matter the cost. And the real perversity is that they seem to be doing it not because they like Trump but because they hate him.
</cnt><cnt style="box-sizing: content-box; display: block; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 34px;">It's almost as if Republicans who caved to Trump now feel compelled to stick with him now as a way to justify their earlier mistake: We're going to prove to you how not-craven we were, even if it means wrecking the party.
...
Can it ever be wise to pull the plug on a presidential campaign? Of course it can. When a campaign has no reasonable path to victory and the candidate at the top of the ticket is a drag on the down ballot elections, decisions must be made. There are two ineluctable truths of campaigns: Resources are finite and candidates matter.
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9:38 AM - 11 Aug 2016
http://time.com/4447527/donald-trump-republican-national-committee/
Exclusive: The Republican Party’s Chairman’s Warning to Donald Trump
In a telephone call with Donald Trump last week, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus laid out his concerns with the direction of the GOP nominee’s campaign, according to two Republican officials. On the call, Priebus informed Trump that his campaign seemed to be headed toward failure and that changes were needed to get back on track.
The officials said Priebus described to Trump internal party polls that show his campaign headed in the wrong direction. Priebus told Trump that he would have been better off had he spent the days since the Republican convention at his Mar-a-Lago Club, officials said.
The possibility of Republicans effectively abandoning Trump by prioritizing voter outreach for down-ballot races now haunts his presidential campaign. In the last two weeks, Trump has suffered a deep dive in public polls (http://time.com/4445780/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-iowa-pennsylvania-ohio-poll/) amid a number of controversies caused by his own public statements .
...
With the party seeing record numbers of ticket-splitting voters in its internal and public polls, the GOP is facing a decision about whether to prioritize outreach to those voters who would never vote for Trump but remain open to supporting its Senate and House candidates. The end result could be the party expending resources to turn out voters who will vote for Hillary Clinton but also back Republican Senate incumbents like Marco Rubio in Florida or Rob Portman in Ohio.
With early voting beginning in mid-September, Priebus told Trump he doesn’t have much time to reverse his polling slide, the officials said. Priebus reinforced a longstanding plea to Trump to stay on message—a goal that remained elusive more than a week a later as Trump’s economic speech was quickly drowned out by comments viewed by critics as promoting political violence (http://time.com/4445467/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-second-amendment-judges/).
And on the same topic:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/to-save-the-party-pull-the-plug-on-trump-now/article/2003772
To Save the Party, Pull the Plug on Trump Now
Never throw good money after bad.
...
<cnt style="box-sizing: content-box; display: block; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 34px;">Trump isn't just behind in the big battleground states. No, what should scare sense into any sophisticated Republicans is that Trump is clinging to bare leads in Utah, Kansas, and South Carolina. He's behind in Georgia. This is not a presidential race. It's The Poseidon Adventure.
</cnt>
If Trump were any other figure, Republican party elites would be making cold-blooded calculations about pulling the plug.
<cnt style="box-sizing: content-box; display: block; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 34px;">But because Trump commands a sub-rational cult of personality, Republicans seem committed to sticking with him, no matter the embarrassment, no matter the cost. And the real perversity is that they seem to be doing it not because they like Trump but because they hate him.
</cnt><cnt style="box-sizing: content-box; display: block; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 34px;">It's almost as if Republicans who caved to Trump now feel compelled to stick with him now as a way to justify their earlier mistake: We're going to prove to you how not-craven we were, even if it means wrecking the party.
...
Can it ever be wise to pull the plug on a presidential campaign? Of course it can. When a campaign has no reasonable path to victory and the candidate at the top of the ticket is a drag on the down ballot elections, decisions must be made. There are two ineluctable truths of campaigns: Resources are finite and candidates matter.
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Trump took in $90 million last month. Where's it gone? Still no ads up. No field offices.Where's the money?
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