The GOP is starting to realize what a gigantic mistake it was to ever let Donald Trump run for their party’s nomination. Problem is, they waited far too long before making efforts to stop him, and how he’s on the threshold of winning the delegates needed for a first ballot victory at the Republican convention in July.
Ohio Governor John Kasich said Saturday that if the GOP is unable to stop Trump and he is the 2016 nominee, they are doomed as a party. Kasich added:
“Do the Republicans actually think that they can win an election by scaring every Hispanic in this country to death?”
Apparently some of them do. In just the past week, GOP leaders have begun to accept that Trump will be their standard-bearer in November, even if that means that Republicans get destroyed, lose the Presidential election, lose control of the Senate, and see their majority in the House badly compromised.
Kasich also said that Trump’s plan to deport millions of Hispanics is only:
“Scaring them to the point that they are afraid that their families are going to be torn apart and disrupted.”
When asked by reporters about the protesters who showed up at a Trump rally in California, Kasich commented:
“When you live on the negative side, when you feed people’s anger––you see what happened here today? I heard about it. People chaining themselves to a fence trying to prevent somebody from coming––I mean, you see what’s happening? Okay? Well, I may not be winning those votes right now, but over time I believe the people will like to live where they can be hopeful.”
Is anyone in the GOP taking time to listen to what John Kasich is saying? He’s currently running a distant third, so it would appear they aren’t and don’t plan to anytime soon.
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