A handful of Republican senators—Richard Burr, Roy Blunt, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, and Ron Johnson—are still firmly behind their party's groping, racist, misogynist monster of a presidential nominee. But you wouldn't know it from the email pitches.
The campaign arm of Senate Republicans has all but excised Donald Trump’s name from their email pitches after previously making him central to their online fundraising efforts—a sign of just how toxic the GOP nominee has become since the video of his lewd comments came out last week.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee had used Trump’s name in each of the five days leading up to the release of the tape at 4 p.m. on Oct. 7, including twice earlier that same day, according to a POLITICO account signed up for updates.
But in the six days since, Trump’s name has appeared only once in the 20 or so emails that the committee has sent.
That's a pretty dramatic shift, since "NRSC had used Trump’s name in their email solicitations in 23 of the month’s final 27 days." One of the days they took off from fundraising was September 11. You see the same effect in the House, where the National Republican Congressional Committee is running ads that essentially assume that Hillary Clinton will be president.
Trump is toxic. The national Republican organizations recognize that. But those Republican senators seeking re-election—Richard Burr, Roy Blunt, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, and Ron Johnson—are sticking with him (or in Toomey's case, refusing to take a stand). That makes them toxic, too.
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