GOP could be near Trump breaking point; frustration abounds

[StrictlyRockers]

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"He can't simply continue to preach to the choir and think he's going to put together a coalition that will win the White House," said Ryan Williams, a party strategist and former aide to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. "He's essentially guaranteeing that he will lose by refusing to clean up his mistakes and stop committing future ones."

The mistakes do keep coming.

Trump this past week stuck by a patently false claim that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State group. The candidate made an off-handed remark about Clinton that was widely condemned by critics as an invitation to violence. He even acknowledged that losing might not be so bad.

"I'll just keep doing the same thing I'm doing right now," he told CNBC on Thursday. "And at the end it's either going to work or I'm going to you know, I'm going to have a very, very nice, long vacation."

All of it, to some Republicans, should lead the party to give up on its nominee.

More than 100 GOP officials, including at least six former members of Congress and more than 20 former staffers at the Republican National Committee, have signed a letter asking the party chairman, Reince Priebus, to stop helping Trump's campaign.

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2faea10578944e11be20eb4824cd29ad/frustration-abundant-gop-could-be-near-breaking-point-trump#

[lindysalsagal]

1. This. Is. GOP. Grift. Carsen, with his books.

The GOP allows these morons to use the POTUS candidacy as their own personal public relations company. And then expect voters to take them seriously.

[StrictlyRockers]

2. Trump's fake 2000 presidential run was all about selling his book, too.

Nothing new under the sun. They don't care about the American people. They want to make a buck!

[Doctor Jack]

3. Oh my god, that link is terrible

It keeps loading more and more ads on the side that its causing the article to jump from the top to the bottom every 5 seconds. God damn AP and their shitty website.

[StrictlyRockers]

4. I expected better from AP

I don't know why.

I don't see any ads because I have uBlock Origin running. (ad blocker)

[world wide wally]

5. Somebody told Trump that his polls went up every time he said something outrageous…

So now he is down in the polls and guess what?
He has gone completely unhinged thinking it will raise his poll numbers.
There is no "there" there. Just ridiculousness.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Oh, gosh, what a shame.

Does the phrase "You reap what you sow" possibly mean anything to the GOP?

[OldRedneck]

7. The GOP establishment cannot disown Trump . . .

. . . because he is exactly what they have been working toward since the 1930's.

[ZombieHorde]

8. I so hope the GOP shatters.

Seems too good to be true.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. As long as that vacation is spent at the Greybar Hotel, I'm fine with that. nt

[spanone]

10. near????????