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By JANET HOOK, BETH REINHARD and REID J. EPSTEIN
Updated Oct. 9, 2016 3:33 p.m. ET
... Confronted by a growing chorus of GOP candidates and officials repudiating their own presidential candidate, Mr. Trump Sunday morning sent a series of messages on Twitter denouncing those who have turned their back on him.
So many self-righteous hypocrites, said Mr. Trump. Watch their poll numbers and elections go down ...
The speed and breadth of the abandonment of Mr. Trumps candidacy shocked some longtime party members. Our party is in its deepest crisis since Watergate in 1974, said Ron Nehring, former chairman of the California Republican Party, referring to the midterm election when the resignation of then-President Richard M. Nixon led to a Democratic landslide ...
The number of Republicans who denounced Mr. Trumps comments, withdrew their endorsement of him or asked him to drop out of the race mounted over the weekend, but it was clear that the issue will not go away for those who are trying to carve their own personal path to re-election ...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-leaders-turn-their-backs-on-trump-after-lewd-comments-1476035359
spanone
(135,874 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Zeke J Miller / St. Louis
2:26 PM ET
... In a series of tweets Sunday before he boarded a flight with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other advisors to the second presidential debate in St. Louis, Trump took aim at the growing list of GOP leaders who have unendorsed his candidacy.
Retweeting one supporter, Trump spread the message that the already more than a dozen GOP members of Congress and one governor have revoked their support of Trump, are traitors. Meanwhile, while former primary rivals Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have called on Trump to step aside.
Trumps campaign encouraged surrogates to drive the message that They are more concerned with their political future than they are about the future of the country, according to talking points forwarded to TIME by one surrogate. Mr. Trump won the Primary without the help of the insiders and hell win the General without them, too.
The tweets and talking points came just 36 hours after Speaker of the House Paul Ryan disinvited Trump from a planned unity rally in Wisconsin. Trump was supposed to send his running-mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, in his stead, but was informed by Pence that his comments couldnt be defended ...
http://time.com/4524209/donald-trump-tapes-republican-critics/
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)into the Tea Party on one side, and the regular Republicans on the other. The GOP has been pulled further and further to the extreme right, and the moderates going along, but now there has come a breaking point where they will go no further.
Oneironaut
(5,524 posts)every wife they've had, but centers his campaign around blasting someone for doing the same thing?