Chuck Todd argued, “If Donald Trump wants to be president of the United States he’s really hurt himself.”

Appearing on “MSNBC Live” with Kate Snow on Tuesday, Todd, the host of “Meet the Press,” explained, “This is not way to get to 50 percent plus one in this country. This is not the way to probably get the support of majority of the Republican Party.” (RELATED: Trump Calls For Moratorium On Muslims Entering United States)

However, Todd suggested it is “probably not” going to hurt Trump in the immediacy, nevertheless, “If Donald Trump wants to be president of the United States he’s really hurt himself.” According to Todd, Trump has been “preaching” the same message since he got into the Presidential race that, “All of these problems you’re feeling, let me tell you who to blame. There are Mexicans, it’s China–”

Todd explained that Trump “escalates” his rhetoric each time and it has made the Republican Party “afraid to confront him.”

“You’ve had a Republican Party behind the scenes going what do we do? And even today, they’re all condemning him,” Todd said.

“The question is, is the next step. Are they going to go to the point to hear candidates say, ‘If he’s the nominee, I’m not going to support him?’ Are you going to go to the next step and the RNC says you know what, we don’t want you on our debates.” Todd wondered, “Does it get to that next step where they decide it is so bad for the brand of the Republican Party that we have to make a public effort to keep him out of the party?”

Todd suggested that “in many ways” if Trump was kicked out of the Republican Party, it “might only help him more with the same group of people who, of course, feel as if the establishment or the elites in the country have let them down? So I’m not saying that’s the answer but that is, that seems to be the only logical next step for the Party to go.”

The Republican Party is “panicked on this” Todd said because Trump is “doing to the party what they have always feared Trump could do which is his thing and everybody has to respond. Every single Republican in the country has to respond.” (RELATED: Trump’s Republican Rivals Slam His Muslim Moratorium Proposal)

“And what’s interesting, most of them are going ahead and doing what Paul Ryan said, “I don’t like to have to respond but today I feel like I have to because it is detrimental to the brand of the Party,” explained Todd. (RELATED: Paul Ryan Condemns Trump’s Muslim Moratorium Proposal: ‘This Is Not Conservatism’)

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