Sunday’s debate DID go perfectly, and the GOP nightmare is unfolding exactly as it should. Trump doubling down HAS solidified his base of Kool-Aiders, and put the down-ticket GOP’ers in an impossible position. Saw this on Politico, regarding Nevada Senate Republican candidate Joe Heck, who distanced himself from Trump…
In Nevada, three separate Republican insiders said Rep. Joe Heck’s withdrawal of support for Trump would hurt Heck in his race to replace retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. In fact, all six of the GOP insiders in Nevada who completed the survey this week picked Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto to win the race.
“Heck coming out and calling for Trump to withdraw and stating he will not support the nominee is going to cause a larger backlash than he realizes,” said one Republican there. “That move may have just lost him this race.”
Added another Nevada Republican: “Heck needs rural conservatives to offset his deficit in Las Vegas, and he has angered a significant number of them by disavowing Trump. He can recover by Election Day, but as of today he's behind.”
The GOP has been praying for Nevada to flip to them to offset the expected Senate losses in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and possibly/probably New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. But the revenge of White Nationalist Trumpublicans out in the boonies will doom that dream.
Damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.
Oh, well. Damn them anyway.