I am appealing to you out of a sense of duty, not to the GOP, but to the country. The time has come Mr. Speaker, to withdraw your support for Donald Trump.

Is it possible that Donald Trump has begun to contemplate his own political mortality? Is it possible that Trump, who had previously boasted to GOP primary audiences that he would beat Hillary Clinton "easily" - has begun to contemplate the possibility that he might lose the presidential election? It is perhaps not a coincidence that Trump has suddenly stopped tweeting about polls at precisely the moment that he is escalating his efforts to cast doubt, in advance, on the legitimacy of the general election's outcome. Trump and his supporters have now said in a series of new public remarks that the outcome of the election is likely to be "rigged."