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Donald Trump Pushes Republican Party to Its Breaking Point - NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-pushes-republican-party-its-breaking-point-n622576Donald Trump has summoned a tornado of negative stories that threaten to rip his campaign from its foundation if he doesn't stop, supporters inside and outside Trump's orbit are warning.
Several top backers including Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani are trying to persuade Trump to move past his feud with the parents of the late Iraq War soldier Humayun Khan, stop bashing fellow Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. John McCain, and refocus his attacks on Hillary Clinton.
But hopes aren't high among Republican allies that Trump, 70, can make such a fundamental change at this point. And the Trump campaign publicly denies that any intervention is occurring at all.
"The reality is that I don't think anyone has any influence" over Trump, a party source told NBC News.
Within the GOP, strategists are increasingly wondering at what point candidates will aggressively break with Trump or the party will divert resources from the presidential race to head off a collapse down the ticket.
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I can't help it. I'm happy about the Rethuglican difficulties. Shadenfreude is the word.
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Donald Trump Pushes Republican Party to Its Breaking Point - NBC News (Original Post)
StrictlyRockers
Aug 2016
OP
The more they try to reason with him, the more he will act out, like a spoiled brat
Midnight Writer
Aug 2016
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lindysalsagal
(20,718 posts)1. Thankyou, Captain Obvious.
"The reality is that I don't think anyone has any influence" over Trump, a party source told NBC News."
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)2. Yes, this is a regular schadenfreude PARTY!
The self destruction of Trump!
Midnight Writer
(21,780 posts)3. The more they try to reason with him, the more he will act out, like a spoiled brat
God bless his black little affluenza infected entitled spoiled rich kid heart.
BainsBane
(53,041 posts)4. This shows how psychologically disturbed he is
And unfit for the presidency. I'm not even talking about politics or racism, but his mental state alone. The is not a guy whose finger should be on the button.