Quotes of the day from Republicans:
“You would have to have had your eyes wide shut for the last year to think he (Trump) would act differently in the general than he did in the primary,” said Josh Holmes, a top adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader."
"I would say in the last couple of weeks, he has been remarkably underperforming and we’ll see whether or not he can take a deep breath and learn these lessons,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox Business News.
"He is such a good counter puncher that he is knocking himself out," Former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said on CNN's "New Day." "If he would focus on Hillary, if he'd focus on the economy, if he'd talk (President Barack) Obama and we don't want a third term, he could win this race. He's hurting himself and hurting the cause."
“I can understand not supporting those who haven’t supported him and trying to leverage support that way,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said in a phone interview Wednesday. “But man, for those who [are] — under difficult circumstances, given some of the statements that the candidate has made — still supporting him and then for him to turn around and say no, it’s not going to be reciprocal? I’m at a loss for words.”
This is all so surreal...