Amid the constant headlines, speculative reporting, uncited sourcing, and relentless spin; it appears chatter of mutiny aboard the GOP has been officially squashed.
As The Hill reports, the Republican National Committee is categorically denying reports that party officials are looking into how to replace Donald Trump in case he drops out of the presidential race before Election Day...
No one at national party headquarters has been instructed to look into that doomsday scenario, RNC strategist Sean Spicer said, and speculation that the RNC might pressure Trump to drop out of the race is unfounded.
Spicer insisted that there is no chance that anyone else will be the ballot in November.
“Donald Trump is the nominee of the Republican Party full-stop,” Spicer told The Hill. “That’s the reality. The rest is just a media-pundit concoction.”
The Trump campaign is also dismissing reports of turmoil in the campaign and the Republican Party as a media creation.
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort noted in a Fox News interview that Team Trump raised $80 million in July, its best haul yet, and said that the campaign is furiously expanding in key battleground states.
He shot down a report that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other Trump allies were planning an “intervention” for the candidate to get him back on track.
“The only need we have for an intervention is maybe with some media types who keep saying things that aren’t true,” Manafort said.
Still, as The Hill concludes, party leaders are working furiously to get Trump back on message after a disastrous stretch in which he has veered wildly off course and renewed fears among Republicans that he will lead them to electoral disaster in the fall.
It's been a wild few weeks...
Of course everyone will be glued to CNBC's John Harwood's twitter tonight for the next uncited source's comments to become factoid headlines tomorrow...
