Donald Trump should immediately exit the presidential race to allow the Republican Party a chance to resurrect itself with a competent candidate, North Carolina's leading newspaper says in a blistering editorial.
"Donald Trump's campaign is on fire … There's talk of GOP leaders abandoning him en masse if his political fortunes keep plunging," the editorial board of The Charlotte Observer writes in a blistering editorial.
"But even if Trump and his campaign can't figure it out, there is a way the GOP could still mount a competitive fall campaign. All it takes is for Donald Trump to drop out."
The Observer says if Trump calls it quits, the 168 members of the Republican National Committee would pick his replacement "generally casting the same number of votes that their state cast at the convention."
Then, the GOP would still have "about a month to get a more capable general election candidate on enough state ballots. Think [former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt [Romney or perhaps [Republican House Speaker] Paul Ryan," The Observer says.
"Admittedly, the chances of Trump dropping out are slim. But if he doesn't, we're talking about possibly putting nuclear launch codes in the hands of a man who is showing the impulse control of a 3-year-old."
The editorial comes on the heels of a plea from Wisconsin's largest newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, to Ryan, to disavow Trump.
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