Democrat tries to tie Trump to John McCain in scathing new ad

Ben Sasse, the Republican senator from Nebraska elected in 2014, told CNN’s Jake Tapper Monday that he would support a third-party candidate if the GOP nominates Donald Trump and Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton.

Rather than beginning to focus their energy on assailing the opposing Democratic Party, McConnell encouraged Senate candidates running for reelection that “they should feel free to run ads against Trump if they feel he is hurting their own campaigns”, reports Raw Story.

Sasse is believed to be the first U-S Senator to say he won’t support Trump should he be the Republican nominee.

“Donald Trump is risky for America”, the ad says. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio on the trail.

According to people who attended a private presentation hosted by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch, Trump’s record was deemed utterly unacceptable, causing high profile donors to hold back on donations out of fear it will be money that will be wasted. “I hate to tell you”, Trump said previous year.

McConnell reassured Republican members of the upper chamber they could run negative ads against Trump if he becomes the nominee and it threatens their re-election, reports The New York Times.

McCain spokesperson Lorna Romero called the ad a “cheap, pathetic display” from Kirkpatrick, saying the congresswoman has backed President Barack Obama’s “radical” agenda.

The senior Arizona senator has stayed neutral since his close friend Sen. Kirkpatrick still has a tough road ahead to unseat the well-funded McCain, but one poll earlier this month showed the race neck-and-neck.

Prognosticator Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight has always been dismissive of Donald Trump’s chances to win the GOP nomination, but that’s changing and fast.