Republicans despondent that Trump threw away final debate
‘Down-ticket Republicans lost,' one GOP pollster said. 'They needed some help and got absolutely none.'
By Alex Isenstadt and Katie Glueck
10/20/16 05:09 AM EDT
Donald Trump’s rocky performance on the final debate stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday night did little to allay his party’s concerns that the GOP is headed for an electoral catastrophe up and down the ticket.
In interviews with over a dozen senior Republican strategists, not one said Trump did anything to change the trajectory of a contest that is growing further out of reach. And many said they were deeply distressed by Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the Nov. 8 election, an eyebrow-raising moment already dominating headlines.
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