he needed to do last night, essentially stop the focus on the tapes from friday and kind of solidify his support or at least bolster the rnc support? if his goal is to win a presidential election, then no, i don t think he came close to achieving that goal. if he had really had a turnaround moment last night, i don t know that you would have seen paul ryan go through with such a dramatic announcement today. a party in a state of crisis unlike any we ve seen in modern presidential politics, you have the highest ranking elected republican in washington breaking with the nominal standard-bearer of his party and the fear across washington and across these congressional races around the country is they actually haven t hit bottom yet that i m aware of. one private poll for one of the parties shows trump losing by double digits, numerous polls from senate and governor races from across the country that show him tanking in the swing