Republican Leadership Afraid Of Donald Trump
Donald Trump looks to be “in the Top 10 and likely to make the cut” in the GOP’s 1st nationally televised debate on 6 August, but party leadership is scrambling to control the populist candidate as he rises in the polls and drives the election narrative says the NY-T.
“Trump is dominating the race right now, he’s sucking the air out of this thing,” former Virginia Rep. Thomas M. Davis told the paper. “Our candidates are all being forced to react to his comments.”
Media reports this week that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called Mr. Trump and asked him to “tone down” his incendiary comments about illegal Mexican immigrants; he characterized some of them as rapists, drug-runners and criminals.
We are getting a look at the behind-the-scenes panic taking place.
A Key concern is Trump having a spot on the stage where he “would mar the debates, garnering attention with bluster and ensuring that the moderators would spend time asking the other candidates to respond to his inevitable provocations.”
Fox News has said criteria for making the cut, there are 10 spots, and they will be determined by an average of the 5 most recent national polls leading up to the debate.
The Republican Party needs to keep Mr. Trump “in the tent” because he could potentially do more damage if he decides to run as an Independent, according to the paper
“He’s Ross Perot as an Independent,” said a GOP analysts. “He wreaks havoc, and every vote he takes comes out of our hide.”
A Trump adviser, Michael Cohen, told the paper that the party’s leadership fears Mr. Trump “because he’s not part of the establishment … he’s not beholden to special interests and large donors.”
Stay tuned…
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