Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says that he’s personally doubtful that Donald Trump will be unseated as the presumptive nominee at the convention in Cleveland, but “nothing is impossible…but highly highly unlikely.”
“My personal view is it is highly highly doubtful,” Priebus said during a Politico Playbook breakfast Friday morning. “As I have said before the rules committee of 2016 writes the rules for the convention. I don’t write the rules.”
When asked if Trump could have the nomination wrangled from him on the convention floor, Priebus joked that there were plenty of rules experts in the room at the Politico Playbook breakfast.
Priebus says that he’s comfortable with Trump as the nominee as he has worked with him extensively behind the scenes, but he does say he believes Trump will soften his tone and pivot to general election mode.
“The person you saw on Tuesday night was the person I got used to dealing with on the telephone and in person,” Priebus says. “That general election approach is the type of approach I have been dealing with.”
Watch as plenty of the media are more than complicit in helping that Drumpf “pivot”, as they help to try to put his racism, bigotry and misogyny in the closet just so they can bash Clinton. Wolf Blitzer and Andrea Mitchell are already getting in line. It’s a “four-fer” for them: Helping to bash Clinton, helping their personal finances (they are one-percenters), helping their GOP buddies, and doing all they can to try to make it a close race.
Well if you saw any of NBC’s pander cast from Trump Tower yesterday it seems some already are.
after awhile, asking the same questions won’t really get any satisfactory answers. Unless there is a negative consequence delivered to Preibus and his lot.
I’m thinking that the media can only do so much to prop up this candidate to ensure a ratings-boosting horse race. After watching his performance yesterday- Cinco de mayo hispandering fail, Ryan brushoff, response to Ryan brushoff- combined with Clinton’s rapid response and well-produced ads using Trump and other Republican’s own words, he could be irreversibly defined by Cleveland. He’s wholly undisciplined and he’s going to lash out with so much vitriol at those in his own party who don’t warm to him that there will be minimal reconciliation before the fall. I see this being the scenario playing out rather than Trump finding message and temperamental discipline and becoming even passable on policy issues. It’ll be ugly but I think he drags his party down before he drags down HRC.
But anything can happen…
They’re deserving of everything they’re going to get this cycle. They’ve been sowing the seeds of what they’re about to reap for 50 years.