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A bunch of GOPers I talked to last night said the party won't abandon Trump until they start losing
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Trump's intelligence slip-up may be the straw that breaks the camel's back
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That history of doing the undoable gives Republicans pause about simply walking away from Trump. "Congressional Republicans want to believe that President Trump can work his way out of this. After all, he has survived crises time and again that would have buried lesser figures," explained one senior party strategist.
And then there is the fact that almost no matter what Trump says or does, a significant chunk of the Republican base believes he is right and support him. Crossing that group, at least right now, is, still, a potentially perilous political endeavor.
"You will give your guy the longest rope possible to hang himself," a GOP consultant I spoke with on the condition of anonymity said. "Only once he puts the noose around his own neck will they kick the stool out from under him. Right now, siding with the Democrats gets you nothing but a primary challenge."
Everyone has their own breaking point. And it's possible that even this latest revelation regarding Trump passing along classified information to the Russians won't be the thing that puts Republicans over the edge.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/trump-russia-lavrov/index.html
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That history of doing the undoable gives Republicans pause about simply walking away from Trump. "Congressional Republicans want to believe that President Trump can work his way out of this. After all, he has survived crises time and again that would have buried lesser figures," explained one senior party strategist.
And then there is the fact that almost no matter what Trump says or does, a significant chunk of the Republican base believes he is right and support him. Crossing that group, at least right now, is, still, a potentially perilous political endeavor.
"You will give your guy the longest rope possible to hang himself," a GOP consultant I spoke with on the condition of anonymity said. "Only once he puts the noose around his own neck will they kick the stool out from under him. Right now, siding with the Democrats gets you nothing but a primary challenge."
Everyone has their own breaking point. And it's possible that even this latest revelation regarding Trump passing along classified information to the Russians won't be the thing that puts Republicans over the edge.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/trump-russia-lavrov/index.html
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