With Donald Trump boycotting and viewership falling off, some Republican National Committee members are starting to question whether the GOPā€™s primary debates should continue in their current format at all.

ā€œYou canā€™t put your head in the sand and pretend these debates are going to result in someone other than Donald Trump getting the nomination,ā€ said Patti Lyman, the RNCā€™s national committeewoman from Virginia, who called the debates ā€œembarrassingā€ and said they ā€œreflected very poorly on our party.ā€

Louis Gurvich, chair of the Republican Party of Louisiana, said the debates ā€œhave demeaned every candidate who participated in them,ā€ while Roger Villere, Louisianaā€™s national committeeman, said he didnā€™t ā€œreally see what weā€™re gaining from having a debate without having the main participant.ā€

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    Basically, the GOP has resigned itself to Trump being the candidate. Watch for who they pick for VP, because thatā€™s who they want to run the show when Trump gets carted off to prison. To be clear, I donā€™t think the GOP as a party organization cares any more about Trump than he does about them; heā€™s just a vehicle for winning the election, as far as theyā€™re concerned. After that, they may even see him as too much of a headache to keep around (see the multimillion dollar legal fees heā€™s piling up for them) and throw him under the bus.

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      Hah, you think the party is gonna pick the VP. Trump tried that once before, look how that turned out. They put someone there who wasnā€™t ā€œloyalā€ enough.

      Get ready for the Donald Trump / Donald Trump Jr. Ticketā€¦

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        Thereā€™s some thing Trump doesnā€™t have control over. In this regard, theyā€™ve got Trump by the balls, because he knows he canā€™t win a third party run and, more than anything else, he wants to win.

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          More than anything else, he wants money, and to stay out of prison, in that order. Running for elected office is a means to those ends. Winning elected office is a means to those ends. Anything he does or did as POTUS is a means to those ends.