Trump National Political Director 'Steps Back' From Campaign

Move comes as campaign mobilizes for final crucial push.

Jim Murphy, Donald Trump’s national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move – a troubling development for the Republican nominee coming just 19 days before the election.

"I have not resigned but for personal reasons have had to take a step back from the campaign," Murphy said in a statement to POLITICO. He did not elaborate on the reasons for his departure.

Several Trump aides said that Murphy has been conspicuously absent in recent days as the campaign mobilizes for the final push.

The move comes at an inopportune time for the campaign, with little more than two weeks remaining until Election Day and Trump cratering in opinion polls.

Murphy is a close ally of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, having worked together on Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign. Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign in August.

It’s the latest departure in a campaign rife with turnover. Manafort resigned from the campaign in August, just two months after succeeding Trump’s first campaign manager. Other campaign hands, including longtime party strategist Ed Brookover, have also left. [….]

It's called *seeing the handwriting on the wall* and RUNNING for the hills to try and save one's career.

Frankly, I expect that a number of political hacks will suffer professionally as a consequence of their support for such a highly toxic creature named Donald Trump.

Yep. The fool still thinks this is a game.

"Down-ticket Republicans lost,' one GOP pollster said. 'They needed some help and got absolutely none.'

Donald Trump’s rocky performance on the final debate stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday night did little to allay his party’s concerns that the GOP is headed for an electoral catastrophe up and down the ticket.

In interviews with over a dozen senior Republican strategists, not one said Trump did anything to change the trajectory of a contest that is growing further out of reach. And many said they were deeply distressed by Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the Nov. 8 election, an eyebrow-raising moment already dominating headlines.

With Trump’s prospects for securing 270 electoral votes growing dimmer by the day, many Republicans have turned their focus to the gritty, unpleasant task of protecting the party’s congressional majorities. Trump, they said, did little to buttress the GOP ticket — and may have worsened its position by repeating his claim that the election is rigged, something congressional Republicans are sure to be pressed on in the days to come.

Immediately after Trump’s remark, several party higher-ups, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, took to Twitter to distance themselves from it.

“The biggest loser tonight was not Trump; the presidential race is over,” said Robert Blizzard, a GOP pollster who is working on a number of congressional races. “Instead, down-ticket Republicans lost tonight — they needed some help and got absolutely none.” […] Politico

I don't know why they're so "despondent"…? He's THEIR guy…..Lol.

And he didn't "throw away" anything. He FAILED. Period.

End of story.

LOL Just look at his eyes. Look at the second pix in this story above and you can see something is wrong with the man. He is a lunatic and they have been trying to let him be in control of the nuclear button? No thank you!