O’Keefe: Trump’s Week Comes at a Time That’s Bad Not Only for Him But Also the GOP

‘There was real evidence this week of the struggles that they’re facing on so many different fronts’

O’KEEFE: "I would just say, you know, you’re talking about wariness, Mark. I think this whole week for Trump comes not only a bad time for him, but really a rough time for the Republican Party overall. There was real evidence this week of the struggles that they’re facing on so many different fronts. There was a Supreme Court case they should have won regarding labor unions in California that resulted in a 4-4 split because of the death of Antonin Scalia. You’ve had two southern governors coming up with different answers on questions to gay rights and transgender rights and facing pressure from the business community, which has traditionally been with the party but now is splitting with them on social issues. Then you had all this stuff with Trump on abortion. But I think even more troubling to a lot of Republicans were his comments again on nuclear weapons and nuclear power. The idea that Japan should have a nuclear weapon. That South Korea might think about it. That he might consider using nuclear weapons against Europe, or at least won’t take it off the table. All of that added up together suggests a really rough time for the party. And that’s why I think there’s growing concern in these later states that maybe we really do have to do something to at least slow Trump’s momentum and force it to a convention."

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