ST. LOUIS, MO — DNC Chair Donna Brazile told a scrum of reporters in the spin room ahead of Sunday’s presidential debate that it would be “political suicide” for Republicans to try to replace Donald Trump at the top of their ticket.
“That’s a decision Donald Trump should make, and that’s a decision the Republican Party should make,” she said when asked about the call by some GOP lawmakers that Trump step down from the nomination. After the Washington Post published Friday a 2005 vido of Trump bragging about “grabbing” un-consenting women “by the pussy,” some Republicans said they could no longer support him.
Brazile added that “half the American people now” are able to vote by early voting in some states and by absentee ballot.
“He may be able to drop out, but it may be a little bit contentious,” Brazile said. “I’d call it political suicide for the Republicans to try to replace him, but again, this is their party.”
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Thankfully, Rethugliklans are damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. They built this monster and, as Martha Stewart would say, “It’s a good thing.”
So, what do you call it when they stick with him? A “yuge” win for Secretary Clinton? I’m good with that…
She’s dead-on. Truthfully, the best thing for them is for the Republican establishment to just not vote for President on November 8th. That way, the loss is big and total, destroying the credibility of the Trumpeteers, plus they still get some of their down-ballot races elected. Johnson doesn’t get 5%, which makes their job of getting elected in 2018 much easier.
A narrow loss will enable a stab-in-the-back myth. One will crop up anyways after the Republicans effectively endorsed Clinton on Friday, but a narrow loss will give it traction. The Republicans need the alt-Reich crowd to be discredited without drawing its fire. And, considering how many guns that crowd has, “drawing its fire” could be literal.
When they started backing away from Trump on Friday, they were playing with fire, a hotter and more destructive fire than having Trump head the ticket in the first place. And in the now increasingly unlikely event of a Trump win, they just put themselves in the line of fire. And again, considering the crowd about which we’re talking, that might be literal.
It was political suicide for them to nominate Trump, but yeah, that happened.
Is it really possible to commit political suicide twice? Leave it to the Republicans to find a way.