One of the top conservative voices on talk radio is urging the Republican National Committee to ask Donald Trump to withdraw his candidacy, or allow the national convention to reject his nomination on the first ballot next month.
“It’s like ignoring stage-four cancer. You can’t do it, you gotta go attack it,” said Hewitt said on his show. “And right now the Republican Party is facing—the plane is headed towards the mountain after the last 72 hours.”
Trump’s campaign has unraveled this week after repeated attacks he has made on the Mexican heritage of Judge Gonzalo Curiel who was born in Indiana. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday said the comments were a “textbook example” of racism.
“Hillary Clinton is gonna be president unless Republicans change their nominee,” said Hewitt. “When the dust clears we will have lost the House, we will have lost the Senate, we will have lost governorships. The Republican National Committee needs to step in and step up and talk to Trump about getting out of the race.”
Hewitt, who has a radio audience of two million people a week, said the RNC must quickly change its rules to allow delegates to vote their conscience on the first ballot.
“Make the delegates own it,” said Hewitt. “If you are gonna commit suicide and someone is giving you a gun, don’t blame the gun, don’t blame the guy or the gal who gave you the gun — blame yourself.”
Trump’s continued attacks on Curiel are what drove Hewitt over the edge.
“I wanna support the nominee of the party, but I think the party ought to change the nominee,” said Hewitt. “Because we’re going to get killed with this nominee.”
Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe and a former Republican congressman, said today on his show, “Hey Donald guess what? I’m not going to support you until you get your act together. You’re acting like a bush league loser, you’re acting like a racist, you’re acting like a bigot. Until you come back to the table and get on the other side of the table and prove to me that you’re not a bigot and prove to me that you’re not gonna take my party down in the ditch, you don’t have my endorsement.”
A growing list of elected Republicans announced yesterday they would not vote for Trump in November.