With Donald Trump boycotting and viewership falling off, some Republican National Committee members are starting to question whether the GOP’s primary debates should continue in their current format at all.
“You can’t put your head in the sand and pretend these debates are going to result in someone other than Donald Trump getting the nomination,” said Patti Lyman, the RNC’s national committeewoman from Virginia, who called the debates “embarrassing” and said they “reflected very poorly on our party.”
Louis Gurvich, chair of the Republican Party of Louisiana, said the debates “have demeaned every candidate who participated in them,” while Roger Villere, Louisiana’s national committeeman, said he didn’t “really see what we’re gaining from having a debate without having the main participant.”
Basically, the GOP has resigned itself to Trump being the candidate. Watch for who they pick for VP, because that’s who they want to run the show when Trump gets carted off to prison. To be clear, I don’t think the GOP as a party organization cares any more about Trump than he does about them; he’s just a vehicle for winning the election, as far as they’re concerned. After that, they may even see him as too much of a headache to keep around (see the multimillion dollar legal fees he’s piling up for them) and throw him under the bus.
Hah, you think the party is gonna pick the VP. Trump tried that once before, look how that turned out. They put someone there who wasn’t “loyal” enough.
Get ready for the Donald Trump / Donald Trump Jr. Ticket…
There’s some thing Trump doesn’t have control over. In this regard, they’ve got Trump by the balls, because he knows he can’t win a third party run and, more than anything else, he wants to win.
More than anything else, he wants money, and to stay out of prison, in that order. Running for elected office is a means to those ends. Winning elected office is a means to those ends. Anything he does or did as POTUS is a means to those ends.