To say that Hugh Hewitt is no longer a fan of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would be a grave understatement. Last night, the conservative talk show host appeared on MSNBC and compared the Trump campaign to “a plane flying into a mountain.”
By this morning, his metaphor had metastasized — in that allowing the Trump campaign to continue “is like ignoring stage-four cancer — you can’t do that! You have to attack it!” Hewitt again compared the previous 72 hours of the campaign to a doomed flight “headed towards the mountain,” before listing off prominent Republicans who agree with him, including Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk.
What is driving Hewitt to mix his metaphors? According to him, Trump’s “gotten race wrong three times with his down the Trump tower speech on Mexican illegal immigrants being rapists, with the David Duke KKK comment, and then with the worst 72 hours of his campaign in over the last three days.”
Hewitt further noted that even though his victory speech was read directly off a teleprompter, it “wasn’t just tin-eared, it was cobalt eared at the end when he said, ‘We will take care of our African-Americans.’ I actually cringed when I heard that.”
“I think every Republican that is on the ballot across the country is wondering, ‘Do I get my resume better? Do I start calling around and finding a job?”
On this morning’s radio show, he noted that “I want to support the nominee of the party, but I think the party ought to change the nominee — because we’re going to get killed with this nominee.” On Twitter, he strongly suggested the GOP simply change its nominating rules at the convention and and select someone else as the Republican candidate:
I agree with @chucktodd: #Mutiny won't happen unless and until @SenateMajLdr and @SpeakerRyan come out and call for Convo rules change 1/2
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 7, 2016
Rules Committee uses one of many options to change first vote to advisory or supermajority. Lots of ways if desired https://t.co/XuLa6Oc1c8
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 7, 2016
If @realDonaldTrump loses by 20 points and wipes out @GOP majorities he's still a billionaire. Scores of electeds r just out of work losers
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 8, 2016
Just asked the rigorously fair @TimAlberta 2 predict @realDonaldTrump % of popular vote in fall. A: 42-44.5%. Which of course = @GOP wipeout
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 8, 2016
