Senate Republicans stand idly Trump march to the nomination

Only a few Republican lawmakers have questioned the businessman - and several have said they will come back if you win.

if Donald Trump becomes the Republican presidential candidate, Senate Republicans will not be remembered for his courageous resistance.

Despite its precarious majority in the Senate is tied directly to the top of the ticket this fall, and most Republican senators believe Trump drag vulnerable incumbents, the GOP Senate has done little to stop Trump past a which can be crucial Super Tuesday. Trump's refusal to repudiate the Ku Klux Klan in an interview on Sunday - who had earlier disowned David Duke but refused to do it again on TV live - made uncomfortable legislators.

But did little to keep most Senate Republicans vowing to support the business tycoon if he ends up being their candidate.

The reluctance to take on frontally Trump, some conservatives say, could invalidate all the work of the party in the last eight years to recover the Congress and position the GOP to win back the White House.

"Trump is a terrible time for the party problem: Losing the presidency of Hillary, lose the Senate and therefore the Supreme Court," said David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth, which has spent $ 3.5 million in a sustained campaign against the Trump. "What I'm sharing with current donors is: Now is the time Super Tuesday and March 15 when it becomes real, winner takes all.".

McIntosh asked the Republican senators who have stayed away - only 16 out of 54 Republicans are supporting a presidential candidate who is still in the race - to summon their networks fundraising home state and lists Support Trump derailing.

"The most useful is to send a message to their constituents that they know and trust them and explain the reasons that Trump would be terrible," McIntosh, a former House member from Indiana said.

The club is trying to help Republicans to protect their most this year by bucking the headlines instead of trying to hit the more moderate members of the GOP primary. And the best way to do that, the group believes, is to go after Trump

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