Donald Trump Drives A Stake Through The GOP’s Heart: ‘I Don’t Want To Pivot’

In this Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during a campaign rally in Altoona, Pa. The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Trump. As the celebrity ... In this Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during a campaign rally in Altoona, Pa. The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Trump. As the celebrity businessman skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and top battleground states have begun openly contemplating turning their backs on their party’s presidential nominee to prevent what they fear will be wide-scale Republican losses on Election Day. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump has a message for the GOP leaders in DC and across the country hoping and pleading and waiting for him to change, to modulate, or to follow a script: “I don’t want to pivot.”

Trump’s refusal to pivot from the primary election to the general and appeal to a different electorate comes even as polls show him losing ground in swing states across the country.

When asked if he needed to change up his tactics and work to appeal to a general election audience, Trump said “possibly” before adding that he wouldn’t.

“I am who I am,” Trump told WKBT-TV in Wisconsin during a one on one interview. “It’s me. I don’t want to change. Everyone talks about ‘oh are you gonna pivot?’ I don’t want to pivot. I mean you have to be you.I f you start pivoting, you are not being honest with people.”

A recent poll showed Trump behind by double digits in Wisconsin, but Trump said that he is still not planning on changing his ways.

“I am who I am. I’ve gotten here in a landslide, and we’ll see what happens,” Trump said.

Trump’s comments come just hours after Republican leaders sent a letter to the RNC urging them to cut of funding to Trump, who many see as a losing proposition with less than three months to go until Election Day.

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  1. Music to my ears! :smiley:

  2. Trump: Being myself keeps me in the news. Pivot would be boring and no one would want to watch me. This is exciting.I am so popular.

  3. Please Proceed il Douche.

  4. “So I scratch my balls at the kitchen table? They itch. Whatcha gonna do?”

  5. The Republican nominee - known for beating the xenophobic war drums of the far-right at rallies that play like the greatest hits concert of a Nazi skinhead punk band circa 1978 - continued, "I just want to bang on the drum all day.’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uke3ydakdjQ

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