‘He’s Terrible for Them’: Rina Shah on Trump’s Impact on GOP’s Down-Ballot Candidates

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COLEMAN JR.: “For a moment, talk to me about what this means for down-ballot candidates in his own party who are in purple districts or in light red districts and still need to get reelected or elected when he pulls a stunt like this one month before their national convention.”
SHAH: “Yeah, it’s a moment again which highlights how every man is for themselves. In the races they are in, when you are in a tough district, which Donald Trump did not win, I am talking about several members of Congress who are part of the GOP caucus in the House in particular, they know that they are left to their own devices. Whether it’s for fundraising, whether they are looking for support, they can’t call this guy into the district. He’s terrible for them. So again, it’s just a moment that doesn’t really jive with how actual, I don’t want to say, retail politics is done, just decency. There was a time when you get together, you talk about unity, you put forward a more hopeful agenda for the country, you start to talk about what you are for and what you are against, that’s all been flipped on his head. So these folks and purple districts are abandoned. Simply put.”