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applegrove

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Sat Aug 20, 2016, 05:37 PM Aug 2016

GOP Strategists Prep Plan to Cut Trump Loose

GOP Strategists Prep Plan to Cut Trump Loose

https://politicalwire.com/2016/08/20/gop-strategists-prep-plan-to-cut-trump-loose/

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“Republicans, worried about preserving their House and Senate majorities in the face of fierce headwinds, are accelerating their plans to distance themselves from Donald Trump – and may soon concede, if only implicitly, his defeat,” Politico reports.

“Party strategists are mapping out blueprints for down-ballot candidates, in TV ads and on the campaign trail, to present themselves as checks on a Hillary Clinton presidency. It’s an approach that would essentially admit a Trump loss. In interviews, nearly one dozen Republican operatives said they had begun poll-testing the idea – which one labeled a “break glass in case of emergency” strategy – to gauge how the public would react to it.”

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