123 Republican Leaders Urge RNC to Cut Off Funding to Trump
By Tessa Stuart
10 hours ago
... A total of 123 Republicans, including current and former members of Congress, cabinet members, political appointees, party officials, aides and staffers signed an open letter to Reince Priebus today ...
The letter's authors urge the RNC chair to abandon Trump financially and put party resources fully behind down-ticket Republicans who could lose their seats over his overwhelmingly unpopular campaign. The missive is signed by two sitting members of Congress — Wisconsin's Reid Ribble and Virginia's Scott Rigell — as well as eight former Congressmen and nearly 30 former members of the Republican National Committee itself.
"We believe that Donald Trump's divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck," the signatories wrote ...
The blistering indictment includes a list, in bullet points, of the missteps Trump has made just in the three weeks since the convention wrapped up. Among the highlights: "Suggesting that gun owners take action against his opponent if she is elected;" "reportedly expressing interest in the preemptive use of nuclear weapons;" "exposing his total ignorance of basic foreign policy matters" and "deliberately and repeatedly lying about scores of issues, large and small" ...
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