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This is delicious:

More than 120 Republicans have drafted a letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, begging him to cut off Trump.

“Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump’s losing presidential campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the entirety of the RNC’s available resources on preserving the GOP’s congressional majorities,” says the letter, whose draft CBS reported on last week when there were already 70 signatures.

The extensive list of signatures includes sitting members of Congress, congressional aides, former RNC officials, and officials from every Republican administration dating back to Reagan.

via Daily Kos

Trump has already threatened to stop raising money for the RNC as an initial response to an early draft of the letter. But that’s not where the real danger lies.

Should the RNC actually dump Trump (how can you resist that rhyme), I would be willing to risk serious money on what his response would be. My guess is that he’d urge his Kool-Aid drenched followers to refuse to vote for vulnerable House and Senate Republicans, whom he would name. If Trump is going to go down, it’s an odds on bet that he’ll want to take as many Republicans down with him as possible. Then he can make the plausible (to him) case that he lost because the Republican Party is run by a bunch of losers. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to game this out, so even Priebus is probably aware that he’s in a no-win situation. He’ll probably stick with Trump, though it would make for a pleasant night watching the returns if he followed this advice.

Keep in mind that should Trump go after endangered incumbents, which he’s already done on occasion, only a few percent of his followers would need to heed his advice in order to doom the endangered to extinction.