and when before richard nixon resigned from the white house, you saw this kind of domino effect. this is an avalanche here, and we saw that before nixon resigned. but of course he was an incumbent president. i don t recall anything like this for a party s nominee. i remember when bob dole was running people were deserting him because they thought he was going to lose, but they weren t taking away their endorsement of him or their money. you said something that s important and i ve heard this in my calls and conversations with republican lawmakers and people who are strategists all day today, which is everybody wants to put the pause button on until sunday night. but what i can t figure out is what is going to be that different that is going to make republicans change how they re approaching him and whether or not the party says enough. let s see if he makes a statement before, before i m told he is not doing that. he gave interviews where he said zero chance of him dropping