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applegrove

(118,665 posts)
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 08:20 PM Oct 2016

Trump Has Tarnished a Generation of GOP Stars

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/09/trump-tarnished-generation-gop-stars/

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Washington Post: “Trump’s turbulent campaign, on display here at Sunday night’s second presidential debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has damaged far more than his own White House prospects. It threatens to diminish an entire generation of Republican leaders who stood by him and excused his behavior after attacks against women, the disabled, Latino immigrants, Muslim Americans, Syrian refugees, prisoners of war, Gold Star parents and others.”

Said GOP strategist Steve Schmidt: “There is nobody who holds any position of responsibility who in private conversations views Donald Trump as equipped mentally, morally and intellectually to be the president of the United States. But scores of Republican leaders have failed a fundamental test of moral courage and political leadership in not speaking truth to the American people about what is so obvious.”


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