With less than a month to go, a major party is walking away from its nominee
With less than a month to go before the election, a major political party is poised to walk away from its own presidential nominee — a situation with few precedents in American political history.
There is little to guide Republicans, collectively and individually, except the growing realization that they have risked their party’s survival by tying it to Donald Trump as he has led them into a crisis that is both extraordinary and utterly predictable.
Now the challenge is how to isolate and quarantine their standard-bearer so that GOP candidates up and down the ballot will not be infected by the public revulsion toward lewd comments he made about women in a newly revealed 2005 recording. Grim GOP strategists now worry that Trump could suffer a bigger loss on Nov. 8 than they previously feared, causing spillover into down-ballot races once thought secure for Republican candidates. That means their control of the Senate is in even greater jeopardy; some doomsayers have begun to speculate that even their House majority may be in danger.
They also fear further bombshells before the election, given how much of his adult life Trump has spent within range of a microphone. “You think this is the last piece of oppo they’ve got?” one GOP strategist fretted as he contemplated the mountains of material that might be out there and available to Trump’s foes and the media.
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