Hillary Clinton has not yet closed the deal. Donald Trump can still win the election. But the boot is on his neck even by those who dread another Democratic win.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the mouthpiece of the plutocracy came out with a stinging indictment on the Donald.
Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign. Mrs. Clinton is the second most unpopular presidential nominee in history—after Mr. Trump. But rather than reassure voters and try to repair his image, the New Yorker has spent the last three weeks giving his critics more ammunition.
Even with more than 80 days left, Mr. Trump’s window for a turnaround is closing. The “Trump pivot” always seemed implausible given his lifelong instincts and habits, but Mr. Trump promised Republicans. “At some point I’ll be so presidential that you people will be so bored, and I’ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people I’ll have about 150 people and they’ll say, boy, he really looks presidential,” he said in April.
But WSJ went even further. The WSJ is calling for his removal as a candidate if he does not pivot quickly.
Those who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth. Chris Christie,Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort and the talk-radio right told Republicans their man could rise to the occasion.
If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.
While WSJ may want the Donald dropped from the ticket if he does not ‘change his act’ in a few weeks, the RNC has no intentions of doing so.
Sean Spicer, RNC communications director, said in a telephone interview that abandoning Trump with nearly three months to go to the Nov. 8 election “doesn’t make logical sense.” … But Spicer said giving up on Trump could be harmful to other Republican candidates and there was still time for him to rebound in opinion polls against Democrat Hillary Clinton. “Number one, you need a strong top of the ticket. That’s number one. Number two, we’re only six points down,” Spicer said, referring to the gap that Clinton has opened up against Trump in some national polls.
Donald Trump so far has spent virtually no money. The fact that he is down by only 5 points nationally (he is down by more in several battleground states) can still pull it out. If such an undisciplined and patently ill-equipped candidate is this close in the polls, it should give pause that if he makes a quick pivot he just may still pull it out. It is imperative that folks continue to register all Americans to vote and that they show up to vote in their interest.