re: #2 bratwurst

I will be surprised if the number of well known conservatives endorsing Hillary reaches double digits.

I strongly disagree…..if certain scenarios are met. One of them could easily be:

i) Trump says something deeply offensive about an ethnic group.

ii) Some Republicans in swing states rebuke him.

iii) Trump attacks those Republicans out of habit.

iv) A significant number of Republicans realise that they either need to rebuke Trump to avoid losing both the House and Senate.

Even if that scenario doesn’t happen, I think it is incredibly likely that Trump is going to start lashing out if it’s obvious that he’s going to lose two months before the election. Which again would be a trigger for Republicans to openly say “vote Repub down ticket, but for Hillary for Prez”.