Why the GOP can't quit Trump

As our reporters Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin pointed out in a story over the weekend, Mr. Trump has expressly encouraged his supporters to donate to Save America PAC, his group, rather than to “RINOS.” (That term has long been slang for “Republicans in Name Only,” but nowadays Mr. Trump tends to use it to mean any Republican politician who doesn’t show blanket support for his claims.) One establishment Republican insider with fears about Mr. Trump’s continued influence on the party told me today that the fund-raising totals were far more worrisome to moderate Republicans than his outlandish statements on Saturday — which felt like old hat. “What surprised people and took them aback was the $85 million he raised,” the person said in a phone interview. “That is a bigger problem, frankly, than what he says. Because within my world, nobody cares about what he says anymore.”
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