Posted on 10/10/2016 4:17:24 PM PDT by HokieMom
The (RNC) is standing fully behind Donald Trump, chairman Reince Priebus said Monday in a private conference call.
Speaking to the 168 members of the RNC, Priebus sought to squash rumors that the national party would cut the nominee loose to focus on protecting GOP majorities in the House and Senate, according to sources on the call.
Trump is running a bare-bones campaign that is overly reliant on staff from the RNC, and a reallocation of resources to down-ballot races would effectively doom his campaign.
Down-ballot Republicans have begun signaling they’ll be run parallel campaigns that are untethered from the GOP nominee, leaving the party in a perilous position less than a month before Election Day.
Priebus argued in the closed call that while he does not condone Trump’s vulgar comments about women, that the nominee apologized and the party stands with him, according to the source.
The GOP was thrust into turmoil by the Friday afternoon release of a video from 2005 where Trump was caught on a hot microphone talking about his celebrity allows him to do anything with women, including grabbing their genitalia.
The party spent the weekend stamping out rumors that it’s considering diverting resources away from Trump as his poll numbers plummet. And Trump supporters, led by Virginia GOP gubernatorial hopeful Corey Stewart, rallied at the RNC to call on the party to stand behind its nominee.
Stewart was later fired from his post as the head of Trump’s Virginia campaign operation.
There's been limited polling since the release of the video, but a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday showed Clinton up 14 points in a head-to-head matchup. And it showed that 49 percent of voters wanted Democratic control of Congress, compared to 42 percent who wanted to see Republicans hold on.
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I don’t trust him!
Reince Priebus, is a breath of fresh air in the rotting GOP establishment.
Guess it wasn't that private
Good to read this. But will it make Foz News tonight? I highly doubt it.
Good. I knew you had an agile mind : )
Unless of course he had advance knowledge of the 2005 tape.
Clinton up 14 points all of a sudden???
And by 49-42 people want Democrats in control of Congress????
I find these poll numbers here to believe.
yo dummie don’t tell us tell the msm
Poll numbers hard to believe is what I meant to write.
Preibus knows his name would be Cruz if he tried to dump Trump.
“The party spent the weekend stamping out rumors that it’s considering diverting resources away from Trump as his poll numbers plummet. And Trump supporters, led by Virginia GOP gubernatorial hopeful Corey Stewart, rallied at the RNC to call on the party to stand behind its nominee.
Stewart was later fired from his post as the head of Trump’s Virginia campaign operation.”
Perhaps Corey’s rally did some good after all:
Trump Virginia campaign chair Corey Stewart fired for organizing protest outside RNC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3478899/posts
Of course, as I say, never trust a human being--particularly yourself.
We're scum since the Garden of Eden.
And particularly don't trust those who rest their claim to trustworthiness on their forgiveness by Jesus.
Only the Lord knows what is going on there.
Nothing shifts that fast except the polls themselves. Ignore it.
Fire the bastard....reason.... NO PRINCIPLES
Reince GAVE Wisconsin Scott Walker.
At the time I LOVED the guy because he, too, was telling Conservatives what they wanted to hear. Walker DID earn his stripes through the battles with Act Ten, (Union Busting) and the Recall Election, but when he ran for President, the mask came off.
Wisconsin was but a Stepping Stone just a few years in? Eff THAT!
The FACT that Walker is not behind Trump 100% leads me to see that Walker, too, is GOPe.
And that makes me really sad. BUT - it also kicked me squarely in the @ss and sobered me up.
And we won’t get fooled again by the GOPe Shysters!
Yeah, Trump grew up, became a Republican leaving his Democrat past behind.
Does this mean the RNC has cut PRyno loose?
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