Donald Trump thought he could overpower the NRA. He was wrong.

[DonViejo]

The biggest sign yet that Trump isn’t remaking the GOP in his image.

by Dara Lind on June 21, 2016, 11:40 a.m. ET

On Monday, the Republican-led Senate didn't just hand a defeat to gun control supporters. It handed a defeat to its own party's presumptive presidential nominee.

Donald Trump supports prohibiting suspected terrorists from buying guns. He even tried to flex some muscle last week to get the National Rifle Association on board. (After all, Trump pointed out, the NRA has endorsed him — and if his treatment of Chris Christie is any indication, he sees endorsement as something like indentured servitude.)

But the NRA didn't budge, and so neither did the GOP. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) amendment, which would have given the government veto power over gun purchases by "suspected terrorists," failed 47-53.

Two Senate Republicans, Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), did vote for Feinstein's amendment. Another, Susan Collins (R-ME), is pushing a narrower compromise proposal. But they're hardly touting the fact that their party's presumptive nominee supports a terrorist gun ban as an argument in their favor. If anything, they're open to such a proposal despite Trump's support: Both Ayotte and Collins have criticized Trump and both are still holding out on endorsing him; Kirk has outright unendorsed Trump while calling him temperamentally unfit to control America’s nuclear arsenal.

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http://www.vox.com/2016/6/21/11983434/trump-gun-control

[tonyt53]

1. Don should have been buying guns to sell instead of those hats.

[PJMcK]

7. That's his new endeavor after November: Trump Gunz (n/t)

[Electric Monk]

2. Donald Trump is the perfect candidate for Hillary Clinton to beat in November

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512210644

[BootinUp]

4. Pretty lame thread jacking attempt there. Why not just discuss the OP?

[Electric Monk]

5. I feel like I've contributed more to the discussion of the OP than "Yep", yet you are berating me?

[BootinUp]

6. Of course you do.

[Electric Monk]

8. Please feel free to elaborate on why you feel like your "Yep" contributed more to the discussion.

[BootinUp]

9. Nice graphic. Basically an attack on other posters.

[Electric Monk]

10. Please do continue contributing positively to this discussion thread yourself :) nt

[BootinUp]

11. My "Yep" addressed the accuracy of the OP. I am waiting for you to discuss it.

[Electric Monk]

12. Trump was wrong, yet again. I am a host of the DU GCRA group, btw. Good enough for you?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1262

[Electric Monk]

13. I am waiting for you to discuss it, too. I'm getting rather tired of still discussing it, frankly.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=about&forum=1262

[Electric Monk]

16. Still waiting...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1262

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=about&forum=1262

[BootinUp]

3. Yep. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

14. Donny is used to walking into any room and bullying his way

into a deal that he will inevitably cheat on anyway. He's used to getting what he wants, but he forgot that all those people he's used to dealing with want something from him. Money, a chance, 15 minutes . . .

The NRA was holding all the cards. They don't need or want jack shit from Donny. He found that out the hard way.

[Tarc]

15. Even in good years, the House & Senate GOP have their own agendas and own races

This year, they will distance themselves as much as possible.