There are glimmers coming out that the RNC meltdown may not even wait until November 9th to start. The continuing slide of The Orange Julius in the polls, and his increasingly belligerent attitude towards the party are starting to make some RNC officials start to freak out apparently.
According to an article in POLITICO, there may not just be discord in the master suites, there may be confusion. According to the report;
As Donald Trump’s campaign unravels, the Republican National Committee has gone dark — failing to give GOP vendors guidance on whether to keep working for the nominee or to move resources into down-ballot races, and not even returning calls from party members ahead of a critical late-afternoon meeting about the way forward.
This is not how an organized political operation should be running, especially 30 days from the general election. You can understand it from a ramshackle mess like the Trump campaign, but not from the freakin’ RNC! The RNC is paralyzed, down ballot campaigns are not getting guidance and support, and they can’t even get through to the RNC for direction. Several Republicans referred to it as “radio silence”. The RNC had a “closed” conference call for members scheduled for late yesterday afternoon, and a little birdie started tweeting that the RNC might be considering pulling funds and support from Trump to allocate to down ballot races.
This did not go over well with a lot of the troops on the front lines. Please understand, I’m not talking about hysterical Trumpaholics here, these are state and county GOP chairs, and paid operatives. This ended up with an e-mail string that eventually ballooned to engulf the entire RNC. To quote;
Members made clear, in the chain obtained by POLITICO, that they do not want the RNC to reallocate resources to other races, despite the surfacing of a 2005 video in which the Republican nominee can be heard bragging about sexual assault and his subsequent drop in the polls.
“I'm disappointed to hear post-debate pundits saying Republicans will meet Monday to discuss pulling funds from Trump,” wrote Tamara Scott, the RNC committeewoman from Iowa, in an email sent to a group of RNC members on Sunday night. “How do we encourage those with the purse strings to stay the course?”
If this is happening, we couldn’t ask for anything more! Apparently, not only is the GOP voting bloc fractured on Trump, the leadership of the GOP is seriously fractured on the Trump situation. And it’s seriously hampering the GOP’s ability to run their operation, even outside of Trump. And this is at a time when the down ballots desperately need guidance, reassurance and support. If the RNC continues to sputter and be paralyzed by the Trumpacolypse, this could do almost as much damage to down ballot races as Trump does.
Look, we all know that Reince Priebus is a gutless coward, he’s proven it over and over again. He doesn’t have the cajones to stand up, take control and make a stand. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if the little shit wasn’t sleeping in a hotel room under an assumed name these days. But you know what? I love the little bugger just the sleazy, spineless way he is right now!
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