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On Halloween, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party re-launched their website, GOPRunningScared.com. The website highlights Republican members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation and prominent Keystone State Republicans getting spooked and having to distance themselves from more and more of Trump’s comments and actions.
The Trump candidacy has been a bone-chilling nightmare for the Republican Party. For weeks, Republicans have distanced themselves from Trump, who has doubled down on the reckless and unprecedented claim that the election will be “rigged” and that he might not accept election results if he loses.
In addition, Republicans from across Pennsylvania disavowed Trump after he “bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone, saying that ‘when you’re a star, they let you do it.’” Since then, many more women have come forward to share their personal stories of Trump’s disgusting and abusive behavior.
With 8 days to go, Republicans are fretting about Trump’s down ballot impact, and voters aren’t sure “witch” Republican Party they’re getting anymore.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Pa. Republicans react to Trump’s election-outcome debate remarks
That giant clunking sound you heard during the presidential debate Wednesday night? It may have been the heads of Pennsylvania Republicans striking their desks when Donald Trump said he would “keep you in suspense” about whether he would accept the outcome of the Nov. 8 election.
Roll Call: Trump Video Revelations: The GOP’s Down-Ballot Nightmare
Welcome to the Republican Party’s down-ballot nightmare. A party that thought it had successfully navigated the Trump dilemma is instead reeling from the revelation that Trump bragged, on tape, about sexually assaulting women in 2005. Now, in the home stretch of their campaigns, vulnerable House and Senate Republicans are being forced to condemn their party’s standard-bearer as unfit for the White House — an event with no precedence in the history of modern American campaigns.
Real Clear Politics: Trump’s Troubles Inflict Pain Down Ballot
It’s a scenario weary Republican senators have grown accustomed to: On a given day, their 2016 presidential nominee stirs controversy, forcing them to interrupt their campaign schedules to respond. Donald Trump’s refusal on Wednesday night’s debate stage to say he would accept the results of the election presented yet another challenge to embattled incumbents focused on surviving the final three weeks of the campaign.
Washington Post: GOP braces for Trump loss, roiled by refusal to accept election results
As the Republican nominee reeled from a turbulent performance in the final debate here in Las Vegas, his party’s embattled senators and House members scrambled to protect their seats and preserve the GOP’s congressional majorities against what Republicans privately acknowledge could be a landslide victory for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Fox News: Trump tensions with party causing headaches down ballot
Boston Globe: GOP frets over Donald Trump’s down-ballot impact
Here in the Pennsylvania suburbs, a political shift is underway: Republican leaders worried about Donald Trump’s presence atop the ticket are focusing as much of their attention on state races as they are on their presidential nominee’s fate in a crucial swing-state battleground.