Paul Ryan Turns Focus From Donald Trump to House Races, Roiling G.O.P.  —  The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, dealt a hammer blow to Donald J. Trump's presidential candidacy on Monday, dashing any remaining semblance of Republican unity and inviting fierce backlash from his own caucus by announcing …

The GOP tumbles toward anarchy: 'It's every person for himself or herself'  —  The Republican Party tumbled toward anarchy Monday over its presidential nominee, as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) cut Donald Trump loose in an emergency maneuver to preserve the party's endangered congressional majorities.

Ryan abandons Trump  —  Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans on a conference call Monday morning that he's done defending Donald Trump and will focus on maintaining his party's increasingly imperiled House majority, according to sources on the call.  —  The message amounted to a concession …

Priebus promises RNC still stands with Trump  —  With Donald Trump's campaign in a historic free fall, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared Monday that the party is standing behind its presidential nominee.  —  “First of all, I want to make it very clear that the RNC …

McConnell: Don't ask me about Trump  —  As GOP senators scramble to survey the damage caused by Donald Trump  —  's explicit comments about women, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  had some direct advice for a local Kentucky group: Don't ask him about the presidential election.

Is Trump a Sufferable Evil?  —  The Republican party is looking down the road to disaster.  —  The emergence Friday of the disgusting Trump tape was a gift to the Republican party.  It provided an occasion, at the very last minute, for the party to dump a fundamentally unworthy and radically unfit nominee.