Establishment Effort to Stop Trump Backfires

New York Times: “From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt regarding the instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump.”

“Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear.”

Washington Post: “A year ago, the GOP thought it had a strong field of presidential hopefuls. Now the question is how close the party will come to annihilating itself and what it stands for.”