Zeke J Miller / St. Louis
2:26 PM ET

... In a series of tweets Sunday before he boarded a flight with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other advisors to the second presidential debate in St. Louis, Trump took aim at the growing list of GOP leaders who have unendorsed his candidacy.

Retweeting one supporter, Trump spread the message that the already more than a dozen GOP members of Congress and one governor have revoked their support of Trump, are “traitors.” Meanwhile, while former primary rivals Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have called on Trump to step aside.

Trump’s campaign encouraged surrogates to drive the message that “They are more concerned with their political future than they are about the future of the country,” according to talking points forwarded to TIME by one surrogate. “Mr. Trump won the Primary without the help of the insiders and he’ll win the General without them, too.”

The tweets and talking points came just 36 hours after Speaker of the House Paul Ryan disinvited Trump from a planned unity rally in Wisconsin. Trump was supposed to send his running-mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, in his stead, but was informed by Pence that his comments couldn’t be defended ...

http://time.com/4524209/donald-trump-tapes-republican-critics/

into the Tea Party on one side, and the regular Republicans on the other. The GOP has been pulled further and further to the extreme right, and the moderates going along, but now there has come a breaking point where they will go no further.

every wife they've had, but centers his campaign around blasting someone for doing the same thing?