Just the headline of this piece is a lie.There was no “panic attack”.
This was a pre-planned orchestrated attempted take-down of the nominee chosen by the party’s voters. All concerned should be sanctioned and drummed out of the party immediately.
From the article:
“a weekend poll indicating that 74% of Republican respondents want “party officials to continue to stand by Trump” and by noting that “several top Republican elected officials” were booed when they publicly renounced Trump over the weekend. The author also reminds readers of the political cost to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for not endorsing Donald Trump at the convention.
Mr. Kraushaar ominously suggests that “Trump supporters could punish new defectors ... by leaving the down-ballot portion of their ballot blank.” The fracturing in Trump's down-ballot support could thus have devastating consequences, according to Mr. Kraushaar:
But now the GOP has to worry that by impulsively breaking their Faustian bargain because of a decade-old videotape, they may have cost themselves control of the Senate.”
The word panic did not refer to the preplanned coordinated attack on Trump by the Republicans. It referred to the down ballot Republicans who were panicked into betraying Trump.