“The implosion over Donald Trump’s candidacy that Republicans had hoped to avoid arrived so virulently this weekend that many party leaders vowed never to back the billionaire and openly questioned whether the GOP could come together this election year,” the Washington Post reports.
“At a moment when Republicans had hoped to begin taking on Hillary Clinton — who is seemingly on her way to wrapping up the Democratic nomination — the GOP has instead become consumed by a crisis over its identity and core values that is almost certain to last through the July party convention, if not the rest of the year.”
Chris Cillizza: Trump is remarkably dangerous to the Republican party.
First Read: “This is more than a mess for the Republican Party; it is the GOP potentially coming apart before our very eyes — no matter who ultimately becomes the party’s nominee or how long it takes.”
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