Trump Keeps Expanding the Map-for the Democrats

We know about all the Republicans who are suddenly #With Her.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/republicans-for-hillary-unite.html

A recent poll shows that even 26 percent of conservatives won't vote for Trump-as opposed to 8 percent of liberals not voting for Hillary.

Now Morning Joe may not vote for Trump?

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, who's long been criticized for appearing too pro-Donald Trump, said Thursday morning he won’t vote for the presumptive Republican nominee if he continues to stand by his proposed temporary ban on Muslim immigration."

“The convention offers him an opportunity – [it] will be the first time a lot of Americans have really looked at Donald Trump, the candidate. We see this all the time. The vice presidential selection offers him an opportunity,” Scarborough said, noting Trump is running out of chances to ideologically pivot as a candidate.

"The former Florida congressman went on to say if Trump goes into August with his current polling numbers, he would lost “big time” in the fall, so his campaign “better be all hands on deck right now. This is not going to be a slow turn."

"After Trump said in a Wednesday night interview that he’s not backing away from his proposed sweeping ban on Muslim immigration into the country, Scarborough said he was disappointed in the candidate."

"And I gotta say I was surprised and disappointed ... that yesterday, he stuck by the Muslim ban. That's a loser. It's a loser with the majority of Americans,” the MSNBC host said. “And you've got Republicans like me. I just, I'm not going to vote for a guy" like that, he said.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-scarborough-donald-trump-muslim-ban

This is why you are going to see a lot of Republicans unwilling to support Trump. To say this publicly basiclaly brands you publicly as a racist. It's a real double bind. If your running for public office-or in it-you either refuse to support your own party's nominee or you do support him and risk being tarred forever with his broad brush.

Even the Koch Brothers aren't willing to support him.

"Republican donors want nothing to do with Donald Trump."

"On Wednesday morning, the presumptive GOP nominee, who has largely self-financed his presidential bid so far, announced that he would be soliciting checks from small contributors and would soon make a decision about whether to accept big contributions from the ranks of Republican megadonors."

"But in interviews with more than a dozen major GOP funders, not one on Wednesday would commit to donating to Trump. Some raised the possibility that they would focus solely on giving to House or Senate candidates."

"Others went further in expressing their discontent: Representatives of Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists who helped to bankroll the rise of the tea party, warned the brothers could sit out the presidential campaign entirely — or even back Hillary Clinton."

"With so many of the GOP’s funders closing their checkbooks, battles over money are breaking out behind closed doors. And as concern grows that Republicans will suffer a shortfall that could stymie candidates up and down the ballot, some foresee looming cash fights pitting Trump against congressional Republicans who are anxious to preserve their hard-won majorities.

“There will definitely be high competition for resources,” said Curt Anderson, a former Republican National Committee political director and veteran party strategist. “There’s going to be a push-and-pull. You have a nominee that isn’t universally liked, so there’s going to be a lot of jockeying.”

"To say big donors are turned off by Trump might be an understatement. On the day that the GOP crowned a de facto nominee, some of the party’s most prolific benefactors talked openly about backing the expected standard-bearer for the rival party."

"Brad Freeman, a Los Angeles investment banker who donated over $1 million to a pro-Jeb Bush super PAC and who has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to congressional Republicans over the years, said he planned to donate to “one of the presidential candidates,” though he declined to say which party he’d support.

“Don’t have to decide before maybe October!” he added.

Perhaps the biggest surprise, though, might be the Kochs. Last month, Charles Koch told ABC News that it’s “possible” Clinton would make a better president than Trump. On Wednesday, a spokesman for the brothers declined to rule out the possibility of backing the former secretary of state, though he implicitly criticized both her campaign and Trump’s.

Mark Holden, the general counsel and senior vice president at Koch Industries, said Koch-funded political groups would consider supporting a general election candidate who is “able to garner support from the public with a positive message in support of the issues we care about, and did not engage in personal attacks and mudslinging.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-megadonors-koch-222825#ixzz47oUBreTm

The trouble is it's not just about donors wasting their money on a losing campaign. It's getting behind a guy who publicly refused to criticize David Duke. Who claimed not to know anything about 'any white supremacists.'

How do you publicly support someone associated with white supremacy? Someone endorsed by the KKK who did not condemn such support? GOPers in office are each going to cope with their own pressures.

It's sort of choose your own poison.