By keeping Donald in the race, and having just enough support of his fellow party members, it makes it much easier for them all to go down together when bombshells are released closer to the election. The Clinton campaign was afraid that the repubs were already imploding over the weekend, and if that had happened, it might have given them enough time in the final month for everyone to separate from Don, and enable them to channel all of their money to down ticket races and save the Senate.

Let the enemy gather his forces into one concentrated area, centered around one easily located target, then unload the really heavy artillery on them.

It'll be up to us to make sure that every eligible voter gets out and EVs or votes on election day.

Lots of work still remaining!

When it's too late for the RNC to replace the Apricot Asshole with someone else.

1). He voluntarily quits

2). Mortality calls in Trump's number

That's it. And the only "safety net" left is that there's a lot of back chatter about him quitting and Pence moving up to the top of the ticket. I posted something on DU yesterday from Ben Stein, who salivated over the process of that scenario, with Rubio or his "favorite" Lindsey Graham in the VP slot.

But unless Trump bails of his own free will, this is what the RNC's got.

Of course, the other way of looking at this is that Trump can quit whenever he wants...like, for example, November 7th. He is thoroughly unequipped to handle massive defeat. Even if he plays his "the election is rigged" guy, he lacks the ability to deal with "losing for the first time" (and I put that in quotes because he is in complete denial over his business failures, his bankruptcies, daddy bailing him out, his divorces, any of that).

So I see him pulling every slimy stunt he can before now and November 8th, but his ego cannot handle a loss, and even if he challenged the results, he has to have substantial proof and any recounts won't happen overnight. If he goes for Bush v Gore and loses that, he comes up a bigger loser than losing on November 8th.

This is just one of those rare elections where we can't predict anything. It seems to be certain that Clinton will beat him on November 8th, but what he does between now and then, and after the votes are counted, is anyone's guess.