CHARLIE SYKES:

Yes, very much.

In fact, one top Republican told me last night, you know, if Donald Trump after the convention had just gone off to a desert island and had said nothing, he probably would be ahead in the polls, that what you have here is Trump is defeating Trump.

And that's what is so frustrating, because Hillary Clinton has actually had a very, very bad week. And yet you wouldn't know it, because Donald Trump has really masked her problems.

So, what I think you have is, you have Republicans trying to talk themselves into thinking things will get better, but that is obviously at this point the triumph of hope over experience. And I think that that's why you might see in the next three or four days more and more Republicans either withdraw their support, distance themselves. I don't know how many you are going to have say that they are going to vote for Hillary Clinton.

But once that starts — and I don't know what Matthew thinks about this — I get the sense it might be a dam breaking, that once you have one prominent Republican backing away, that others are going to see this as permission to say, you know what, we do not want to be part of this. We do not want to go down with the anchor of Donald Trump, because right now it's not just the presidency.

It is all the down-ballot races. And I think you have a Republican Party that's looking into the abyss if they cannot get Donald Trump to clean up his act.