The GOP Is Sending a Message: Never Say "Never"
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The hashtag "Never Trump" has lost its currency among traditional Republicans, and the Third Party alternative is dead in the water. Much faster than anybody predicted, some of Trump's most outspoken GOP critics are holding their noses and supporting the nominee.
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| 0:38.6 | The Republicans are sending a message. |
| 0:41.0 | Never say never. |
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| 0:49.6 | He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious, bigot. |
| 0:53.0 | That was Republican Senator Lindsey Graham before Donald Trump nailed down his party's nomination. |
| 0:58.3 | Now Graham is reportedly telling fundraisers in private to get behind Trump's campaign for the White House. |
| 1:04.2 | Some other former critics who are now public supporters are being compared to hostages making videos to earn release from their kidnappers. |
| 1:11.6 | But hardliners are still insisting |
| 1:13.4 | that Trump's not just unacceptable, |
| 1:15.5 | he's unelectable. |
| 1:17.1 | Will he unify the GOP or destroy it? |
| 1:20.3 | Today's talking point, |
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| 1:22.6 | has been called a Jewish extremist. |
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