QuoteMore and more Republicans are running for the lifeboats.

With President Trump sinking in the polls less than three weeks before the November elections, a growing number of GOP lawmakers are scrambling to distance themselves from their party's embattled standard-bearer — a shift that's both illuminated Trump's tumultuous tenure in the White House and driven cracks in the GOP's united front at a particularly inconvenient moment for the unpopular president.

For vulnerable Republicans at risk of losing seats, the detachment appears designed to attract independent and moderate GOP voters who have soured on Trump after four years in office. Others seem to have written the president off and are now burnishing images of political independence in preparation for a Trump-less Washington.

"It's about survival for some. For others, it's about positioning for the post-Trump world," said one former Republican lawmaker, who estimated there was only a "5-to-10 percent chance" of Trump winning a second term.

National polls show Joe Biden leading Trump by an average of nearly 9 percentage points, and Biden is also ahead in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — critical states that Trump carried four years ago.

In fact, Trump's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, has been "darkly pessimistic" in private conversations, leaving campaign staffers with the impression that Trump will lose the White House, Axios reported.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/521433-republicans-increasingly-seek-distance-from-trump


They shouldn't be allowed to create distance. They are glued to Trump's fate. It is deserved.

Quote from: Barricade on October 16, 2020, 05:35:50 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/521433-republicans-increasingly-seek-distance-from-trump


They shouldn't be allowed to create distance. They are glued to Trump's fate. It is deserved.

Fake news!

Quote from: Barricade on October 16, 2020, 05:35:50 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/521433-republicans-increasingly-seek-distance-from-trump


They shouldn't be allowed to create distance. They are glued to Trump's fate. It is deserved.

Source?

Quote from: taxed on October 16, 2020, 06:19:40 PM
Source?

You mean a leftist opinion piece?

Quote from: Solar on October 16, 2020, 08:07:23 PM
You mean a leftist opinion piece?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBtLPWeKbU

Quote from: Barricade on October 16, 2020, 05:35:50 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/521433-republicans-increasingly-seek-distance-from-trump


They shouldn't be allowed to create distance. They are glued to Trump's fate. It is deserved.

And just how many democrat candidates do YOU see campaigning with Biden? 

Quote from: Barricade on October 16, 2020, 05:35:50 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/521433-republicans-increasingly-seek-distance-from-trump


They shouldn't be allowed to create distance. They are glued to Trump's fate. It is deserved.

Please advise which republican candidates are doing this.