REPUBLICAN TROUBLES – AT 10:24 A.M. ET:  There really is a war going on inside the Republican Party.  It's the Trump people versus the anti-Trump people, and it's getting vicious.  It threatens to consume some of the party's best people.  From Breitbart: 

From Kyle Cheney writing at Politico:

Sen. Ben Sasse’s outspoken rejection of Donald Trump is roiling Nebraska Republican politics, and the discord is threatening to boil over at the state’s GOP convention Saturday.

A prominent Nebraska political operative — who is the nephew of senior GOP Sen. Deb Fischer — is behind a move to publicly rebuke the anti-Trump movement. Sam Fischer has issued a proposed resolution — set for a vote at the convention — declaring that the state party will refuse to support any Republican officeholder who opposes the GOP presidential nominee or agitates for a third-party candidate.

Though the measure doesn’t name Sasse, the junior senator is clearly the target. He has become the most prominent elected Republican to embrace the “#NeverTrump” movement and call for a conservative candidate to join the field. He recently reiterated his support for a February Facebook post in which he shredded Trump as ill-suited to be president and said he’d refuse to support him as the nominee.

COMMENT:  This is sad.  Sasse is one of the most outstanding young Republicans in Congress.  He is a possible future president.  It would be tragic to see him consumed by the Trump issue, an issue that will be resolved either by Trump becoming president, or by him being defeated, and fading from politics in half a second. 

There are always little civil wars within parties.  This threatens to become a big one, but the Republican National Committee did some very good work this week in bringing Trump together with party leaders.  That work must continue through the convention.

May 15, 2016