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riversedge

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Sat Oct 1, 2016, 03:51 PM Oct 2016

At closed-door funder, McConnell asked for a show of hands of who thought Trump would win. No one r

we need 4 more weeks of BAD from Trumpy!!



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Trump’s bad week is a ‘nightmare’ for the GOP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-bad-week-is-a-nightmare-for-the-gop/2016/09/30/e9290ad8-8727-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html


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The GOP presidential nominee is out on the trail ahead of the general election in November.
By Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Sean Sullivan September 30 at 8:03 PM




Republican leaders and strategists are unnerved by Donald Trump’s erratic attacks on a Latina beauty queen and other outbursts this week, increasingly fearful that the GOP nominee is damaging his White House hopes and doing lasting harm to the party in the campaign’s final stretch.

Party officials said they are newly embarrassed by Trump’s impulsive behavior and exasperated by his inability to concentrate on his change message and frame the race as a referendum on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to interviews with more than two dozen of them.

Senate and House candidates are ducking questions about Trump and distancing themselves, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has refused to talk about him. And few elected leaders are counseling him.
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At an intimate fundraiser Wednesday for Rep. Joseph J. Heck (R-Nev.), who is running for the Senate, McConnell asked the group of about a dozen supporters how many of them think Trump can win. About half of the attendees raised their hands. But when McConnell then asked how many thought Trump would win, no hands went up, and the room fell silent, according to a person familiar with the scene who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a closed event......................................

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At closed-door funder, McConnell asked for a show of hands of who thought Trump would win. No one r (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2016 OP
Then, of course, he asked if anyone was interested in his in-law Jimmy Chao's "business opportunity" forest444 Oct 2016 #1
This was entirely predictable. We could see tRump was amateurish; GOP elite has no excuse. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #2
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