TheLagerLad wrote:

TheLagerLad wrote:

Goose wrote:

It looks like, from polling data that both Toomey in PA, and Ayotte in NH would be wise to distance themselves from Trump, maybe even repudiate him.

From a campaign perspective, it's a timing issue. Dump Trump too early, and maybe you hurt fundraising opportunities and support from the party. Do it too late, and you seem like you're just trying to save your own skin.

Toomey and Ayotte also need to figure out some math. If they repudiate Trump, they will lose a certain number of votes. The question is do they make up those votes from independents and democrats who find their distance from Trump as something that speak to their character or whatever.

I think they hang in with Trump until the first debate, see where things stand, and if it appears Trump doesn't have a chance to win, then all bets are off and they officially jump off the train.

 

Or maybe the RNC itself lets Toomey and Ayotte off the hook at some point 

(From an article on the Time website this morning)

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told Donald Trump in a phone call last week that if he doesn’t turn his flailing campaign around, the national party may shift its focus from his candidacy to down-ballot races, according to two GOP officials briefed on the exchange.

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.

Trump denied the officials’ account of the exchange.

 


I read that article also. Of course the Drumpf people say the call and conversation never happened.

When I dug into the article, I assumed he made those comments on a central PA talk radio station where he needs to consolidate support among Trumpkins. 

But he said that on a local Philly talk station. Unbelievable. 

I guess that he's betting that Trump can get out of free-fall mode and tighten up this race.
It's possible. A long time till Election Day.
Trump could turn it around.
Of course, I think that it's more  likely that trump simply continues to make one dumbass remark after another until November and takes the party on a death ride.