Senate Republicans Up for Re-election Are Urged To Keep Distance From Donald Trump

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Senate Republicans Up for Re-election Are Urged To Keep Distance From Donald Trump

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/02/senate-republicans-up-for-re-election-are-urged-to-keep-distance-from-donald-trump/

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The Senate Republican campaign arm this fall urged senators up for re-election next year to keep their distance from Donald J. Trump, calling him a “misguided missile” who could undermine their campaigns.

“Let’s face facts. Trump says what’s on his mind and that’s a problem,” wrote Ward Baker, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “Our candidates will have to spend full time defending him or condemning him if that continues. And, that’s a place we never, ever want to be. It is certain that all G.O.P. candidates will be tied in some way to our nominee, but we need not be tied to him so closely that we have to engage in permanent cleanup or distancing maneuvers.”

In a seven-page memo dated Sept. 22, Mr. Baker wrote Senate Republicans under the assumption that Mr. Trump had secured the presidential nomination. Using stark terms, the strategist warned incumbents whose campaigns will determine whether Republicans hold their majority about the risk of being associated with the bombastic presidential candidate.

“Houston, we have a problem: Donald Trump has said some wacky things about women,” wrote Mr. Baker, invoking the Democrats effort to portray Republicans as insensitive to women. “Candidates shouldn’t go near this ground other than to say that your wife or daughter is offended by what Trump said. We do not want to re-engage the ‘war on women’ fight so isolate Trump on this issue by offering a quick condemnation of it.”



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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Hahahaha.

Pie fight brewin' in the GOP lunch room.

Have at it, boys.

[LonePirate]

2. So only the candidates' wives and daughters are allowed to be offended by Trump?