Donald J. Trump’s first-ever political campaign has turned into a train wreck.

And yet, the Republican presidential nominee, keeps operating on the notion that there’s no such thing as “negative publicity.”

Actually, of course, there is such a thing. Trump has begun bleeding profusely. He’s exsanguinated so badly that in the past 24 hours or so there is actual talk among Republicans about how they might be able to take their presidential campaign forward without Trump as the party’s nominee.

Count me as one American who doesn’t think Trump will quit, although it’s an interesting notion to consider.

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Several news organizations are reporting that GOP leaders are trying to (a) get Trump to reset his campaign, (b) persuade him to start acting like a serious presidential candidate and (c) figure out how to persuade Trump to drop and then find a way to nominate someone else.

Trump’s campaign performance has been disgraceful, comical, ridiculous and nonsensical.

Were he to quit the race, though, would be to hand Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton the keys to the White House. Moreover, it would be the perfect prescription for a 50-state sweep by Clinton, which would flip the Senate and the House of Representatives from GOP to Democratic control.

The Republican brass might need to rethink the seriousness of any effort to get Trump to quit the campaign.

They would have to cope with the outrage of the Trumpkins who voted for Trump during the GOP primary. He collected a lot of them — which he has been more than eager to remind us all along the way. Are they going to vote blindly for the replacement nominee, whoever he is? You may stop laughing now.

But for now, the Trump campaign is bleeding. His foes smell it.