Schumer: GOP caught between whirlpool and ‘pillar of fire’

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Senate Democrats jumped at the chance on Thursday to tie Republicans lawmakers to Donald Trump, even as they acknowledged the GOP is far from unified around its presumptive presidential nominee.

“They are caught between a rock and a hard place,” said the Senate’s number-three Democrat, Charles Schumer of New York. “They can go into a whirlpool or a pillar of fire.”

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