Down Ticket #3: Republicans want to keep Congress by sacrificing Trump. Good luck with that.
In 1996, the GOP dumped Dole to save its congressional majorities. For Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, it must be like déjà vu all over again. You may have missed the news while you were doing whatever it is that normal people do with their summer weekends, but Trump is in even bigger electoral trouble this week than he was the week before.