The upcoming general election is shaping up to be a nasty one. The presumptive nominees in both parties have already turned their sights on each other — and there’s still just over five months until the election.
“Hillary Clinton’s husband abused women more than any man that we know of in the history of politics,” presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said at a rally. “She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful.”
The mud-slinging isn’t one sided.
“I’m going to do it, I know how to do it, I’ll get it done … but I’m not going to tell you what I’m going to do,” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said as she impersonated Trump at a rally recently.
Washington Examiner senior correspondent Byron York and Examiner contributor Lisa Boothe break down with host David Drucker what the remainder of this election season could look like.
Later on in this week’s Examining Politics, Erick Erickson, conservative radio talk show host and Fox News contributor, calls in to give a glimpse at what it’s like to be a leader of the #NeverTrump movement.
“With Trump … I’ve come to the conclusion his character is deeply flawed. He’s unfit for office at a level of integrity, and two, I can’t tell you where he stands because he contradicts himself in clauses within a single sentence,” Erickson says.
Erickson, who has been a leader of the #NeverTrump movement since early on in the primary season, warns of a fractured Republican party after the election no matter if Trump wins or loses.
“He’s brought a lot of people in who are voters but not Republican voters and they have helped pick the Republican nominee, and shaped the Republican nomination process and it fundamentally changes the Republican Party,” says Erickson. “If he loses, the Republican civil war gets even nastier.”
