Hey Everybody, It's A Republican Civil War!
Trump's Tweets and Ryan's Rebellion may mean the living will envy the dead.
By now most of us know that Donald Trump went on a tweetstorm this morning against House Speaker Paul Ryan. CNN's Carol Costello abruptly ended a segment with the now utterly unhinged Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson, and pivoted to CNN's Dana Bash to go over the current battlefield.
CAROL COSTELLO: Let's stop right here. I want to talk about something else with Dana Bash.
DANA BASH: I can't even hear you.
CAROL COSTELLO: I want to talk to Dana Bash now. Dana, can you hear me?
DANA BASH: I can hear you.
CAROL COSTELLO: That conversation was going nowhere, so I'm going to talk to you about the Republican civil war, because I do think this is important. I mean, really, all of America should be concerned about what's happening within the Republican Party right now, because it's important that we have two strong political parties in this country and, again, there's this civil war going on, something that Donald Trump said he was going to fix, that could unify his party, but it's quite clear this morning that he can't do that.
BASH: it's -- it's -- let's just be specific about what's going on, Carol. In the past ten minutes, Donald Trump has sent his second, at least second, tweet of the day specifically going after Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House. This is the first one. It says "Despite winning the second debate in a landslide, every poll,” -- which these are online polls, I feel the need to say this every time, it's up there, they were online surveys and they were certainly not scientific. Put that aside -- He said, "It is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support." Now let's go to the most recent tweet, which is even more -- a lot more pointed. "Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty." Carol, we are four weeks from Election Day. What is the Republican nominee doing right now? He is sending out tweets that you can see, he's getting angrier, angrier as he's watching us, even though he says he doesn't, report on the fact that Paul Ryan has effectively concluded that he doesn't think Donald Trump can win, and that's why he's told his rank and file that they should do what they have to do for their own political viability. And maybe -- and also for their own moral consciences.
Wait. Dana Bash is suggesting that NOW House Republicans are going to follow their own moral consciences?