Analysis | Trump keeps attacking their spouses. Top GOPers keep supporting him anyway.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : McConnell simply repeated his past promise to support Trump if Trump won the nomination.
52% : And repeatedly, those Republicans have stood by Trump because he's the party's standard-bearer.
50% : McConnell endorsed Trump in March.
47% : "Trump added at a rally in Atlanta: "I haven't earned her endorsement?
45% : "Now she says she won't Endorse me, and is going to 'write in Brian Kemp's name,'" Trump posted on Truth Social.
44% : "The governor responded by echoing Cruz's 2016 admonition, urging Trump in an X post to "leave my family out of it.
39% : Trump during the primary campaign had suggestively pointed to the absence of Nikki Haley's husband, Michael, who was in fact deployed to Africa as a member of the South Carolina National Guard at the time.
32% : The most recent example came this weekend in Georgia, when Trump made a point to attack not just Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) but also his wife, Marty.
29% : Oh, he's away," Trump said, adding: "What happened to her husband?
27% : Repeatedly this election cycle, Trump has invoked the spouses and family of Republicans who have criticized him.
27% : At the time, he was asked about Trump's attacks on his wife and about the senator's assertion that Trump was culpable for Jan. 6.
26% : Trump has made little secret of his propensity for attacking family members.
25% : "The pattern was also evident at last month's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where two former primary foes whose spouses Trump had criticized spoke on his behalf.
24% : Trump has also made repeated insinuations about the couple's ties to China.
23% : To call Trump a "sniveling coward" and telling him to "leave Heidi the hell alone.
23% : Former Texas land commissioner George P. Bush has supported Trump even after Trump's attacks on his father (former Florida governor Jeb Bush) and his uncle (former president George W. Bush), as well as social media posts suggesting his mother's Mexican heritage influenced Jeb Bush's immigration policies.
21% : "But Kemp otherwise suggested he would still help Trump, saying, "My focus is on winning this November and saving our country from Kamala Harris and the Democrats.
20% : "Trump also said Michael Haley should "come back home to help save her [Haley's] dying campaign.
17% : Trump cited Marty Kemp having said recently that she isn't planning to vote for Trump, even as her husband has come around to the party's nominee.
8% : Trump also falsely accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R) wife, Casey, of trying to "commit organized voter fraud" for comments she made about supporters from outside Iowa helping with her husband's campaign there.
7% : "Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has also endorsed Trump despite Trump's racist attacks on his wife, Taiwan-born former Trump administration transportation secretary Elaine Chao.
6% : There are certainly gradations to Trump's invocations of spouses; the attacks on Chao and Heidi Cruz are in a different ballpark than what Trump said about Michael Haley and Marty Kemp.
4% : Trump baselessly suggested Cruz's father might have participated in John F. Kennedy's assassination, and he both attacked the appearance of Cruz's wife and threatened to "spill the beans" on her.

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