Tornado Alley (PROG)

[BOREALIS]

'A Republican bloodbath': GOP senators voice fears of a painful Trump defeat

The new wave of Republican anxiety did not yield any perceivable course correction from the president, who directed fire right back at concerned GOP senators.

“I’m worried that if President Trump loses — as looks likely — that he’s going to take the Senate down with him,” Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said of the GOP's campaign odds in a conference call with constituents.

Oct. 19, 2020, 8:45 AM CDT
By Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON — Republican senators are increasingly voicing fears that President Donald Trump could lose the election, and some are openly fretting that he’ll turn the party's candidates into electoral roadkill, distancing themselves from him to an unusual extent.

A weekend of agonizing from Republicans did not yield any perceivable course correction from Trump as he continued his inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail and directed some of his fire right back at anxious GOP senators on Twitter.

Pointed warnings of electoral defeat have come in recent days from Sens. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Ted Cruz of Texas and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. All are former Trump critics turned allies who reliably vote with the president.

“I’m worried that if President Trump loses — as looks likely — that he’s going to take the Senate down with him,” Sasse said in a conference call with constituents last week, according to a recording first reported on Thursday by the "Washington Examiner".
Exclusive: GOP Sen. Sasse says Trump 'kisses dictators' butts' and mocks evangelicals
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/exclusive-gop-sen-sasse-says-trump-kisses-dictators-butts-mocks-evangelicals

“I’m now looking at the possibility of a Republican bloodbath in the Senaate.

[...]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/republican-bloodbath-gop-senators-voice-fears-painful-trump-defeat-n1243804