The Donald Trump campaign has issued a statement cutting ties with Ohio GOP Chair Matt Borges. Ohio, a swing state with 20 Electoral College votes at play, is critical to any presidential campaign.
Trump’s Ohio chairman Bob Paduchik is accusing Borges of undermining Trump to take Reince Priebus’s job as chair of the Republican National Committee.
Paduchik wrote a letter to the state community. It read in part:
“It’s no great secret that Chairman Borges was never fully on board, but his actions over the last week demonstrate that his loyalties to Gov. John Kasich’s failed presidential campaign eclipse his responsibility as chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. The chairman is also driven by an apparently insatiable need for publicity.”
Borges was accused of exaggerating his relationship with the Trump campaign. He was trying to advance his own bid for RNC chair.
Borges said:
“I won’t let a staffer’s ego get in the way of us doing all we can to win elections up and down the ballot this year.”
Republican political consultant, Matt Cox, said this about the whole ordeal:
“This is unprecedented. No one knows how to handle this on a human, daily-interaction level with this campaign. So to throw this in there 24 days out, I don’t know how anyone can deal with it properly, and in any respect, it’s not going to help elect Republicans.”
It’s like the whole party is unraveling before our eyes. Many of their officials have refused to support Donald Trump. I would like to know why they waited so long.
Watch the message from the Ohio GOP Chair here:
And Trump’s statement that he is a “victim” here:
