Electoral battles

Trump's big worry isn't rigged elections, it's GOP establishment

With the election just weeks away, Donald Trump faces an uphill battle against Hillary Clinton. Yet as we face what is possibly the most critical election in modern history, Trump’s biggest foe isn’t Clinton or the DNC, and it isn’t the mainstream media … It’s the GOP itself.

Throughout the course of Trump’s campaign, the establishment wing of the Republican Party, led by chairman Reince Priebus, hasn’t exactly thrown its arms around him. But many influential GOP-ers used the release of a 2005 tape, in which Trump made lewd comments about women, to fully disavow their own candidate.

John McCain, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, and even Speaker of the HousePaul Ryan are among those who threw Trump under the bus after the video’s release. Others, like Condoleezza Rice and Sen. Mike Lee called for Trump to exit the race altogether.

The smugness and self-righteousness of the GOP elites who are turning their backs on Trump just three weeks before the election is shameful. Especially because Trump is largely a creation of establishment Republicans like Ryan and McCain.