Tensions Deepen Between Donald Trump and R.N.C.

[Zorro]

The Republican National Committee had high hopes that Donald J. Trump would deliver a compassionate and measured speech about immigration on Wednesday, and prepared to lavish praise on the candidate on the party’s Twitter account.

So when Mr. Trump instead offered a fiery denunciation of migrant criminals and suggested deporting Hillary Clinton, Reince Priebus, the party chairman, signaled that aides should scrap the plan, and the committee made no statement at all.

The evening tore a painful new wound in Mr. Trump’s relationship with the Republican National Committee, imperiling his most important remaining political alliance.

Mr. Priebus and his organization have been steadfastly supportive of Mr. Trump, defending him in public and spending millions of dollars to aid him. But the collaboration between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Mr. Priebus’s committee has grown strained over the last month, according to six senior Republicans with detailed knowledge of both groups, some of whom asked to speak anonymously for fear of exacerbating tensions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/donald-trump-rnc-reince-priebus.html

[hibbing]

1. But he perfectly represents the party

And is a wet dream for the hate radio that is on 24/7 and the racist base of the party. I don't get why there would be any conflict. Hugh Hewitt described the speech with many superlatives, including "sophisticated"....snicker.

Oh yeah, and the speech made David Duke's white hood stiffen.

Peace

[Metro135]

6. Ann Coulter thought it was the greatest speech in history

Better than JFK

Better than FDR

Better than MLK or Churchill.

Better than God on Mt. Sinai.

[pampango]

7. Trump is the tea party wing personified. The tea party has won the GOP.

The tea party has gone to meet its maker

The tea party is now indistinguishable from the Trump Party. Liberals have had a rollicking good time watching Trump peel the Indian paint off the erstwhile rebels. Brian Beutler of the New Republic routinely responds to racist outbursts among Trump supporters with a mock lament for the "economic anxiety" purportedly driving their allegiance to Trump.

Competing arguments that Trump supporters are motivated by declining economic prospects versus racial resentment are not mutually exclusive. But a deep analysis of Trump supporters released last week by Gallup shows that the economic angle is the more convoluted and uncertain one.

The evidence "is mixed as to how economic hardship affects Trump's popularity," wrote economist Jonathan Rothwell. "Racial isolation and lack of exposure to Hispanic immigrants raise the likelihood of Trump support. Meanwhile, Trump support falls as exposure to trade and immigration increases, which is the opposite of the predicted relationship."

That last part was the bomb. Trump's signature issues are trade and immigration. Yet his supporters appear less exposed to negative effects from trade and immigration than people who don't support him.

http://www.standard.net/National-Commentary/2016/08/16/teaparty-DonaldTrump-immigration-trade-Hispanics-column-Wilkinson

[JHB]

10. The tea party was the Republican base voter trying to wash the Bush stink off them

[stopbush]

2. Trump and the RNC.

[anamandujano]

3. Now now, play nice. He's your fearless leader.

Sounds like they are saying they saw nothing wrong with Trump until Wed night?

[busterbrown]

4. Absofuckenlutely Correct! n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

5. He has ruined the RNC for decades. Not sure how they will recover.

The RNC will never be able to appeal to an poc after this fiasco

[OnDoutside]

8. You'd be surprised.

[Fast Walker 52]

9. fuck all of them-- anyone who supports Trump's candidacy in anyway is sick

[NastyRiffraff]

11. Trump is what they deserve

The so-called "moderate Republicans" have been dog-whistling racism, misogynism, and xenophobia for decades. Trump is different only in that he says it out loud.

Have a nice time with the leader of your party, Republicans.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Not sure there are any "moderate" Republicans left...

most of them have turned into "centrist" Democrats.

What we see now is the hard right Repub party that is the Tea Party wet dream. Although I think the TPers were racist, they weren't so openly rabid about it until now. Trump has exposed that.

Know him by the company he keeps.

[0rganism]

13. "compassionate and measured" LOL

1. Donald Trump
2. the RNC
"compassionate and measured" N/A
those ratfuckers are reaping what was sown in 1968, prepare for the harvest festival