Donald Trump is barreling toward a collision
with fellow Republicans, upending recent progress in uniting the party -- and
even threatening to go it alone if GOP leaders don't fall in line.
The presumptive GOP nominee on Wednesday went so far as to tell
its elites that he did not need them at all.
And leading Republican fixtures, who just a month ago had been
inching slowly yet unmistakably toward the Trump banner, are now pacing the
other way, revoking endorsements and even considering ways to throw him
overboard at the Republican National Convention. Trump's unwillingness to wage
a traditional campaign is inviting a new round of handwringing from GOP elders,
whose worries have only intensified after much-criticized Trump's reaction to
the massacre at an Orlando nightclub this past weekend.
And the hostility is mutual. At the Fox Theater in Atlanta on
Wednesday, Trump expressed himself more candidly than he has ever since
becoming the presumptive nominee in early May.
"We have to have our Republicans either stick together, or
let me just do it by myself. I'll do very well," Trump told the crowd.
"A lot of people thought I should do that anyway, but I'll just do it very
nicely by myself."
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