Scarborough: Republicans don’t need to ‘run scared’ from Trump

Republicans don’t need to “run scared” from Donald Trump and should set stipulations for their support of him, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday.

The “Morning Joe” host discussed the tough decision for GOP lawmakers fighting to protect their seats this fall with Trump, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, at the top of the ballot.

{mosads}”This is something you take care of in one town hall meeting. Call a town hall meeting. Say, ‘This is why I’m not going to endorse Donald Trump until he does one, two, three.’ And you go there and explain,” Scarborough said.

Scarborough, a consistent critic of Trump, said Republican lawmakers don’t need to “run scared” and “can go home and lead” and tell their constituents that until Trump does “X, Y and Z, he does not have my support.” 

“Does that mean I’m supporting [presumptive Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton? No. But it does mean I’m not going to support somebody that will not only lose to Hillary Clinton but ruin the Republican Party for the next generation,” Scarborough said.