(CNN) It's hard to believe, as some have suggested, that Donald Trump wants to lose his campaign for the presidency. Starting with his gratuitous and disturbing slap at Ghazala Khan , the Gold Star mother who appeared at the Democratic National Convention, Trump has been careening from one unsettling comment to another. Yet if Trump were plotting to throw this race, he would not have behaved any differently than he has for the past six days. In just the past week, two other Republican House members, Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania and Richard Hanna of New York, have come out against Trump's candidacy. He was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns.

Source: CNN August 04, 2016 16:52 UTC