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Hey, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with a quick take on a couple of big pieces of news today as the dust settles following Sunday night's debate.

I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress and I'm Jim Ennicomonton, our political editor.

So we've got to talk about what is happening with the Republican Party because I have never seen anything

like this ever.

Let's say like if you maybe went away for Columbus Day weekend and didn't pay any attention to the media, maybe we should catch up for quick seconds.

Cause yeah, it's been a lot.

So basically there is a major rift between lots of leadership in the party and the guy who was supposed to be the Republican Party's

standard bearer, Donald Trump, let's start with some tweets that he sent this morning and then talk about a conference call between House Speaker Paul Ryan and other folks in Congress.

First to tweets this morning Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted quote, despite winning the second debate in a landslide parentheses every poll, it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support.

So he's referencing their statement by Paul Ryan, which came out over the weekend, where he basically said he's no longer going to defend Trump and he's going to spend all of his time and effort now trying to help down to Republicans win this November.

So he was tacitly admitting that he doesn't think Trump can win.

Right. And also part of what Paul Ryan said and this was in a conference call with House Republicans is that he said part of his message as he campaigns in October is that President Hillary Clinton should not have

a Democratic controlled Congress.

Wait, House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican said that will be part of his message on the campaign trail is to make the argument for why Republicans need to stay in control of Congress.

The obvious implication of that suggests that House Speaker Paul Ryan no longer believes Donald Trump can win this race.

It's usually easier to run against someone, not usually before they'd won.

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