The panic. It's real. Today the Cook Political Report moves the North Carolina Senate race to Toss Up, one of eight Senate races that's too close to call—most currently held by Republicans. Which is the topper to this delicious reporting from The New York Times Friday morning.
While Republicans anticipate that their down-ballot candidates will be able to outpace Mr. Trump's share of the vote, national and local party officials and strategists are increasingly concerned that he is in danger of being so soundly defeated that even their best-prepared candidates will not be able to withstand the backlash to the top of the ticket.
"People are getting pretty nervous about our candidates because he's in a death spiral here and nobody knows where the bottom is at," said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is close to many of his colleagues facing re-election. […]
Some Republicans believe that, in Democratic-leaning or evenly matched states, Republican candidates are better off abandoning Mr. Trump because the party's most reliable voters are still likely to go to the polls and support every Republican on the ballot. But […] if the party collectively disavowed his candidacy now […] the internecine intraparty battle likely to ensue could depress Republican turnout, dragging other candidates down with him.
As of now, every Republican senator running for re-election—with the exception of Mark Kirk—has decided to stick with Trump and abandon all pretense of principle. All to keep an increasingly racist, divisive, violent, and reactionary Republican base happy. They deserve all this heartburn Trump is causing them. They brought it on themselves.
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