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Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw made his latest appearance on the newscast he helmed for decades to act as though he had the best interests of the Republican Party at heart and warned opponents of Donald Trump that any successful attempt to stop him from gaining the nomination could “be an attack on the basic principles of why we have elections.”
Current anchor Lester Holt provided the lead in by noting that there’s “a fight for the soul” of the GOP and with Trump having amassed “millions of supporters who back him,” he argued that the similarly devout opposition to Trump “rais[es] the question many are asking: Is it the people or the party who should choose the nominee?”