It seems that despite Republican leaders like Paul Ryan staying on board the Trump train, some GOP operatives are not so comfortable putting their time and their reputations on the line to elect Trump. That’s leading to a bit of an exodus from the Republican National Committee:
In recent months, deputy press secretary James Hewitt, spokesman Fred Brown, director of Hispanic media Ruth Guerra, and research analysts Lars Trautman and Colin Spence have all left the RNC with Trump as one of the reasons for their resignations, according to sources familiar with their decisions. At least three other staff members have also left the RNC with opposition to Trump as a contributing factor, according to multiple sources. [...]
Spence, who joined the RNC in June 2015 as a research analyst on the investigations team, left this June for a “variety of factors” but said he wasn’t “overjoyed with how the primary season went.”
“Personally I wasn’t comfortable working to elect him,” he said of Trump.
But don’t cry too deep a river for these principled Republicans. After all, they were there to elect a Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. If the violent rhetoric and overt bigotry from Trump is too much for them, they were still plenty happy to deny women equal pay or control over their bodies, campaign against LGBT people’s right to marry, and take health care from millions. And, as the RNC’s spokesman Sean Spicer insisted in response to these departures, there are plenty of staffers left at the RNC. So apparently, many Republican operatives remain happy to descend to Trump’s depths—right alongside Paul Ryan.