Trump's 'sell by' date has passed , and Republican contenders for office are speaking out.
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“They (Trump supporters) want to put their head in the sand,” one committee member said.
'If anyone is a RINO, it’s Donald Trump!' RNC members turn on former president as 'rift emerges' at meeting
Some members of the Republican National Committee are speaking out against former president Donald Trump at the group's winter meetings in Salt Lake City.
NBC News reported Thursday night that a rift was emerging at the meeting between Trump's interests and the party's.
"Republican candidates need to make voters' concerns a central focus, as opposed to Trump’s day-to-day attacks, RNC members suggested this week," according to the network. "Few will put it quite so bluntly; they are loath to antagonize Trump and possibly drive off his hard-core followers. Yet in interviews, party officials showed little appetite for organizing the GOP around Trump’s grievances."
"It is beyond what we would call midwestern common courtesy," the member said. "None of us understand it. Pence is a conservative Republican. If anyone is a RINO [Republican in Name Only], it’s Donald Trump. Think about it."
Other RNC members criticized Trump's continued obsession with false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
According to the Washington Post, "several members said their colleagues were uninterested in reckoning with Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack, and his false rhetoric that the election was stolen."
“They (Trump supporters) want to put their head in the sand,” one committee member said.