Congressional Republicans are preparing to be left with no good options if Donald Trump clinches the GOP nomination. Election strategies and message discipline will be thrown out the window as candidates are forced to answer for every one of Trump's wacky, degrading, racist, sexist, xenophobic musings, reports Morning Consult.
In whispered conversations with their own political strategists and party leaders, Republicans running for Congress find themselves stuck between two unpalatable options, should Trump become the nominee: They can support him and risk alienating voters offended by his most egregious insults, or publicly break with him, and risk angering the thousands of Trump backers in their home district.
“Does your candidate disavow [Trump] openly and earn the wrath of these voters, or ignore and potentially have the press or others call [him] out,” said one Republican strategist, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Meanwhile, Democrats are wasting no time in capitalizing on the GOP's impossible dilemma. In Arizona, for instance, Sen. John McCain's Democratic challenger Ann Kirkpatrick jumped into the ring this week with a video slamming McCain's commitment to vote for Trump "no matter what."
Catch the video below.
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