Pat Meehan apparently has seen enough.
The Delco Republican, who is running for re-election for his 7th District House of Representatives seat, is now calling for the guy sitting at the top of the ticket to get out.
Just about 24 hours after the bombshell video of Donald Trump using lewd, vulgar language to describe his dealings with women, Meehan wants him out.
He's certainly not alone.
The inflammatory remarks by the always bombastic Trump certainly lit a fuse among Republicans.
Many die-hard GOP loyalists saw it as the final nail in the coffin of their hopes to recapture to White House. Now they appear to be taking steps to safeguard the U.S. Senate and House.
Due to the wonders of redistricting, a process that has seen the 7th District carved up into a ridiculous mix of just about all the suburban Philadelphia counties, Meehan's seat was thought to be safe.
But with many seeing Trump as an anchor around the GOP's neck, some are wondering if the trickle-down could boost the longshot hopes of many down-ticket Democrats, including Mary Ellen Balchunis, the Democrat taking another run at Meehan.
Meehan decided to cut his ties with Trump even before last night's debate.
"For the good of the country, the Republican Party, and his family, I hope he'll step aside and end his candidacy for president so that we can come together as a party and defeat Hillary Clinton," Meehan told a Philly TV station.
This sort of vile talk is appalling, it's offensive, and there's no place in public or private for it. It's simply wrong."
Pennsylvanians also will be electing a U.S. senator in November, with incumbent Republican Pat Toomey in a war with Democrat challenger Katie McGinty.
Likewise, Toomey also has struggled to come to grips with Trump's candidacy.
He also blistered the GOP standard bearer for his latest crude bombast concerning potential sexual conquests. Toomey called the comments in the decade-old video "outrageous and unacceptable."V
But as yet he has not joined Meehan in asking Trump to step aside, something that the McGinty camp.
The local races reflected the national GOP mood, as one GOP leader after another castigated Trump, and many joined the call for him to step down.
Of course, Trump is having none of it. He took to his favorite vehicle, Twitter, and confirmed he would never leave the ticket, abandoning his loyal followers.
He did offer a first-ever apology in the campaign, a video he put out at midnight Friday, and he followed that up at last night's debate with an explanation that his comments were little more than "locker room talk," adding again that "he's not proud of it," before attacking the sexual foibles of Bill Clinton.
"Mine were words and his were actions," Trump said of Clinton.
This weekend Pat Meehan took a little action of his own.
Good for him.
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