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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy the GOP Won’t Renounce Trump
Why the GOP Wont Renounce Trumpposted by Taegan Goddard at the Political Wire
http://politicalwire.com/2015/07/09/why-the-gop-wont-renounce-trump/
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Republican Party leaders agonize over the prospect that Donald Trump will mount a third-party candidacy that could undermine their nominee. They fear insulting the white working-class voters who admire him. They are loath to tangle with a threat-flinging firebrand for whom there are no rules of engagement, the New York Times reports.
Since the start of Mr. Trumps presidential campaign, a vexing question has hovered over his candidacy: Why have so many party leaders privately appalled by Mr. Trumps remarks about immigrants from Mexico not renounced him?
It turns out, interviews show, that the mathematical delicacy of a Republican victory in 2016 and its dependence on aging, anxious white voters make it exceedingly perilous for the Republican Party to treat Mr. Trump as the pariah many of its leaders now wish he would become.
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Why the GOP Won’t Renounce Trump (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2015
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IDemo
(16,926 posts)1. "They are loath to tangle with a threat-flinging firebrand"
So yes, he's Sarah.2.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)2. lol, "Mathmatical delicacy"?
That's a polite way of saying they have a snowballs chance in hell.
brooklynite
(94,911 posts)3. Let's see how long it take the GOP to criticize his Phoenix remarks...
...or not.
udbcrzy2
(891 posts)4. Friends on facebook like him
I cannot believe it, but they do. lol
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Not all Republicans are racists.
But without the racists, the ranks of the Republicans shrink like a Rinsed Penis.
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)6. I hope that Trump does run as an independent