[Hoot Gibson]

Who could have seen this coming? The RNC will not continue throwing money away on a loser like Trump if they can salvage control of Congress. I hope that the RNC has learned its lesson from the Trump debacle and eliminates open primaries for the 2020 election cycle. Republicans should choose the Republican nominee and the candidates for the nomination should, in fact, be Republicans.

RNC considers cutting cash to Trump

GOP officials lay the groundwork to blame their nominee if Clinton wins.

Publicly, Republican Party officials continue to stand by Donald Trump. Privately, at the highest levels, party leaders have started talking about cutting off support to Trump in October and redirecting cash to saving endangered congressional majorities.

Since the Cleveland convention, top party officials have been quietly making the case to political journalists, donors and GOP operatives that the Republican National Committee has done more to help Trump than it did to support its 2012 nominee Mitt Romney and that, therefore, Trump has only himself and his campaign to blame for his precipitous slide in the polls, according to people who have spoken with Republican leadership.

Sean Spicer, the RNC’s top strategist, on Wednesday made that case to 14 political reporters he convened at the organization’s Capitol Hill headquarters for an off-the-record conversation about the election.