Thursday, August 18, 2016

Republican Party sees some staffers flee because they can't stomach Trump

It seems that despite Republican leaders like Paul Ryan staying on board the Trump train, some GOP operatives are not so comfortable putting their time and their reputations on the line to elect Trump. That’s leading to a bit of an exodus from the Republican National Committee:

In recent months, deputy press secretary James Hewitt, spokesman Fred Brown, director of Hispanic media Ruth Guerra, and research analysts Lars Trautman and Colin Spence have all left the RNC with Trump as one of the reasons for their resignations, according to sources familiar with their decisions. At least three other staff members have also left the RNC with opposition to Trump as a contributing factor, according to multiple sources. [...]

Spence, who joined the RNC in June 2015 as a research analyst on the investigations team, left this June for a “variety of factors” but said he wasn’t “overjoyed with how the primary season went.” “Personally I wasn’t comfortable working to elect him,” he said of Trump....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1558696


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